Comverge's PowerCAMP™ metering software enables utilities to utilize advanced communications protocols that enable additional communications cost reductions by reducing the size of the message transmitted. The software portal also enables utilities to remotely program and upgrade their Maingate® gateways over-the-air. The PowerCAMP metering console enables automated, remote provisioning, scheduled reads, error detection, data validation, data exporting and ongoing support and administration of a Comverge advanced commercial and industrial metering system. Building on the secure encryption of Comverge's communications protocols, PowerCAMP features secure data access and integration with other corporate applications such as billing, CRM and load research.

Key Features include:

• Automatic configuration and provisioning
• Configurable load-profile and billing reads
• Web-based user interfaces
• Local and e-mail alerts of meter events, tamper detection, and diagnostics
• Integrated validation and verification processes
• MV-90 interface
• Standard software architecture designed for scalability, reliability, and longevity
• 4-channel load profile support
• Outage detection support
• CDMA 1xRTT, GSM GPRS and SkyTel paging networks supported
• Scalable to over 50,000 end points
• Multi-user support