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M2M Manages Irrigation, Pays Farmers, Saves Electricity

Boise, ID — M2M Communications Company of Boise designs and manufactures specialty communication equipment for the energy sector. M2M Communications devices give a utility the ability to shed large non-critical loads in high demand situations such as on hot summer days.

M2M Manages Irrigation, Pays Farmers, Saves Electricity

Kyocera Wireless and M2M Communications Collaborate on Load Control System

SAN DIEGO and BOISE, ID, January 15, 2008 — Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless handsets and devices, and M2M Communications, a leading wireless M2M systems integrator and application provider, today announced the successful deployment of a sophisticated direct load-control program custom engineered for Rocky Mountain Power’s demand-side management project.

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M2M Communications: Energy Management for New York City

As the population of a city grows, the demand for energy, such as natural gas may outgrow the capacity of the distribution system. Enter energy management solutions by M2M Communications. Utilizing a web-to-wireless remote monitoring and control product with an integrated Multi-Tech SocketModem®

M2M Communications: Energy Management for New York City

Powering Up with M2M

M2M is nothing new to utility companies, which have been using the technology since long before the term gained prominence. Today, these same companies are at the forefront of adoption with an eye on the future.

For the vast majority of public and private utility companies, M2M must seem like a late arrival to a party that’s already started. Power-generation companies, among others, have been moving forward with M2M technology for quite a while and many are showing solid results for having done so.

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Connecting Wireless Solutions to Business Strategy

Mobile Enterprise — Wireless M2M Over the next 18 months, Rocky Mountain Power will deploy 4,000 custom-designed load control units from Kyocera and M2M Communication that will enable the utility to efficiently balance electrical power supply and demand between agricultural and residential customers.

Rocky Mountain Power, based in Boise, Idaho, services agricultural customers in parts of Idaho, Montana,

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Aeris Selected to provide Wireless Services for M2M Communications

San Jose, CA — July 1, 2007 — Aeris® ( www.aeris.net ), the leading network services provider for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) fixed and mobile communications services, today announced that the company will provide its CDMA services to M2M Communications, a leading supplier of M2M monitoring and control systems.

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Minding The Grid: Empowering Utility Management With M2M Technology

Mobile Enterprise — Fifteen degrees Fahrenheit is cold. In the natural gas business, 15degrees F is the equivalent of August at midday for an electric company: primetime. It's when even the most frugal extra-sweater-wearer is likely to turn up the thermostat, and the collective result of this can be a strain on a utility's infrastructure and a vast drain of its resources.

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Valley Introduces New Pivot Monitoring Device

THE IDAHO STATESMAN — M2M Communications has signed an exclusive ten year agreement with the world’s largest manufacturer of irrigation equipment and has introduced two new products for pivot irrigation systems.

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