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ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide ION 7500 and ION 7600 Meters
Chapter 1 - Introduction Page 13
ION Enterprise™ is a powerful web-ready software suite that can process,
analyze, store, and share information from across your entire organization. Its
compatibility and flexibility means you can introduce individual components, at a
pace you decide, while maintaining your original investments. You can access
information and alarms from any workstation, pager, PDA, or cell phone locally or
around the world, in the format you require. You can also perform coordinated
load and equipment control functions, either manually or automatically. ION
software collects data automatically from ION meters and third-party devices, so
you can manage a single site or a global network of devices. ION software and
hardware products reduce cost of installation and ownership by leverage existing
corporate networks and popular networking technologies, including serial,
wireless, modem, Ethernet and Internet links.
A wide selection of ION intelligent metering and control devices are available,
with choices to meet the specific needs of various key points within an enterprise.
Devices offer a range of high accuracy metering, power quality and reliability
analysis, data and event logging, alarming, control and communications.
This manual discusses ION 7500 and ION 7600 meter default functionality, as well
as features and applications. Throughout the manual, the term “meter” refers to
both meter models. All differences between the models, such as a feature specific
to one model, are indicated with the appropriate model number.
These meters can be used effectively in numerous energy supply-side (utility) and
demand-side applications. Some common meter applications are:
◆ Revenue metering
◆ Substation automation
◆ Power quality monitoring (with Flicker)
◆ Commercial/industrial operations metering
◆ Demand and power factor control
◆ SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
◆ Distributed generation (generator) monitoring and control