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Get visibility and control at the grid edge
With Itron’s Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio, you make more informed, real-time decisions for better energy management.

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Urbint and Locusview are now Itron

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Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water
As a proven global leader with customers in over 100 countries, we build innovative solutions that create new efficiencies and connect communities, encourage conservation and increase resourcefulness. For our customers. For our planet.

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Simplify utility planning, engineering and operations, and provide actionable intelligence for unparalleled performance.

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Extend distributed intelligence to more devices across our flexible, interoperable and secure intelligent connectivity platform that future-proofs your communications strategy.

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Itron’s IntelliFLEX DERMS solution enhances grid resilience by pinpointing distributed energy resource (DER) locations, sensing local grid conditions and offering control of those resources.

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Explore how AMI 2.0 and grid edge intelligence are accelerating electrification, reducing costs and raising real-time situational awareness of wildfires and grid safety.

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Enabling Electrification with Grid Edge Intelligence

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How can utilities embrace the transformative role of data analytics, AI and grid edge intelligence? Download our report to find out.

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Grid Edge Intelligence
We help utilities increase safety, stability and reliability, engage consumers and promote sustainability through our grid edge intelligence portfolio that unlocks the power of your data to provide more visibility and control than ever before.

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Enhance grid resilience and reliability, and manage grid-wide DER resources by pinpointing DER locations, forecasting intermittent loads and offering precise control.
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Enhance reliability and efficiency by extending secure grid monitoring and control outside the substation fence.
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Itron Grid Edge Intelligence Portfolio

Itron’s grid edge intelligence portfolio unlocks the power of your data to provide more visibility and control than ever before. Enabled by distributed intelligence technology, Itron's Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio empowers utilities with greater visibility and control at the edge by connecting, detecting, operating and controlling devices to deliver an efficient, optimized and smarter grid for communities.

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Grid Edge Intelligence: The Strategic Response to Utility Disruption
Utilities are facing a convergence of disruptive forces—climate volatility, decarbonization mandates, explosive demand growth and affordability crises. Traditional infrastructure-centric approaches are slow, costly and rigid to meet these challenges. Grid edge intelligence—a software-driven, decentralized and data-rich approach—offers a transformative and expedient path forward.

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Enabling Grid Edge Intelligence: How Norgesnett is Shaping Norway’s Energy Landscape

Learn how Norgesnett is leading grid modernization in the Nordics with a large-scale grid edge intelligence deployment to tackle EV growth, rising solar generation and grid capacity limits.

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Elevating the Standard for Grid Edge Intelligence

Unlock differentiated grid edge intelligence that boosts reliability, speeds outage response, reduces O&M costs, and delivers real time insights to elevate utility performance.

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Positively impact grid reliability metrics, optimize grid operations, and improve resiliency and safety.

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Innovate the way you manage the grid at scale by preparing for load growth, managing DERs, and engaging customers. Learn how you can go beyond the meter and stay ahead of the curve.

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Building the Case for Grid Edge Intelligence
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Empowering Utilities with Greater Visibility, Control & Connectivity

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Learn how Hydro One is achieving new levels of advanced grid reliability, resiliency, visibility and control with distributed intelligence—amid extreme capacity growth, environmental challenges and the rise of DERs.

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December 15, 2025
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Today’s utilities are managing unprecedented complexity, and Itron is committed to helping them focus on what matters most: keeping the lights on, infrastructure running and people safe. That’s why we’ve acquired Urbint, a leader in AI-powered operational resilience for energy and utilities. Together, we’re embedding intelligence and safety into every aspect of utility operations—from grid planning and asset management to workforce safety and emergency response. When utilities stay resilient, communities thrive.
The Origins of Urbint
Since 2017, Urbint has developed AI-driven solutions that strengthen utility operations. Their approach combines predictive modeling with industry science to deliver three core capabilities:
Worker Safety: Elevates field safety by enabling crews to identify hazards and controls at the point of work.
Damage Prevention: Reviews, manages and prioritizes “811” dig requests to prevent third-party damage to underground assets.
Emergency Preparedness & Response: Connects the entire natural disaster lifecycle by predicting damage and expediting a utility’s response.
These solutions deliver measurable impact. Utilities using Urbint have reduced underground asset strikes by up to 35%, improved situational awareness in the field and managed over 215 utility storm responses. For example, National Grid leveraged Urbint to acquire over 200 contractor crews during Winter Storm Finn in under 19 minutes, compared to hours or even days before.
Itron and Urbint Become One: What This Means for Utilities
This integration goes beyond adding new tools; it creates a connected ecosystem of intelligence. Urbint’s predictive modeling combined with Itron’s grid edge insights gives utilities a unified view of their operations. That means:
Proactive Decision-Making: Predict storm impacts and act before outages occur, not after.
Smarter Resource Allocation: Combine real-time grid data with risk profiles to deploy crews where they’ll make the greatest impact.
End-to-End Resilience: From preventing underground strikes to accelerating restoration, utilities can manage risk across the entire lifecycle of their assets.
Why Now?
A convergence of complexity is pushing the limits of utility operations. In 2024, U.S. electricity customers endured an average of 11 hours without power—nearly double the annual average of the previous decade. Outages aren’t just happening more often; they’re also lasting longer. A recent JD Power survey shows outage durations have steadily increased since 2022, reinforcing the need for proactive emergency preparedness and damage prevention.
At the same time, utilities are being asked to do more with less. A shortage of skilled labor is slowing grid modernization, asset management and the energy transition. In a time when frontline utility workers are hard to come by, keeping them safe and productive is a top priority.
This is where Urbint comes in. Together, our Resiliency Solutions will help utilities protect workers, infrastructure, communities and the environment.
Leading the Way in Operational Resilience
As the utility industry continues to contend with unprecedented challenges, resilience is critical. This acquisition represents a pivotal step forward in enabling it. By integrating Itron’s grid edge capabilities with Urbint’s resilience solutions, Itron’s Resiliency Solutions will unlock a modern approach to safety and reliability, empowering utilities to stay resilient and communities to thrive.

By The Itron Team
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March 25, 2026
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After more than a decade of relative stability, electricity demand is on the rise—and so is the pressure to build, upgrade and maintain the infrastructure that delivers it. The International Energy Agency estimates that the world’s electricity grid will need to more than double by 2050, reaching roughly 166 million kilometers of transmission and distribution infrastructure—enough lines to wrap around the Earth more than 2,000 times.
As utilities work to expand capacity and modernize aging systems, success increasingly depends on how quickly and accurately construction data moves from the field into operational systems. When that data is delayed, incomplete or disconnected, projects slow down and operational systems are forced to reconstruct reality long after the crews have left the site.
Closing the gap between construction and operations requires capturing trusted data the moment it’s created. Through Itron’s acquisition of Locusview, we add digital construction management (DCM) capabilities into Itron’s Resiliency Solutions segment, enabling utilities to automate the flow of high-fidelity field data. This approach eliminates the 'information lag,' ensuring that GIS and asset management systems are populated with the precise information needed to support safety, compliance and long-term infrastructure integrity.
“High-fidelity construction data is the lifeblood of asset integrity; it transforms raw field activity into the actionable intelligence required to power Geographic Information Systems (GIS), enterprise resource planning and real-time monitoring platforms across the enterprise,” said Shahar Levi, senior vice president of Resiliency Solutions at Itron.
Where Traditional Construction Workflows Fall Short
For many utilities, construction remains one of the most challenging stages of infrastructure delivery. Projects often involve multiple internal teams and contractors, with critical information captured in the field, often on paper and passed along through manual processes or disconnected tools. When the data arrives late or requires rework, inspections are delayed and discrepancies emerge between physical assets and what is reflected in operational systems.
As construction programs scale to support grid modernization and electrification, these inefficiencies become harder to manage. Utilities are being asked to move faster while maintaining high standards for safety, reliability and compliance. Traditional construction workflows were not designed to support today’s pace of change or level of complexity utilities now face.
Connecting Field Execution to Operations
Locusview helps address these challenges by digitizing how construction data is captured, validated and delivered. Rather than relying on post-project reconciliation, crews and contractors document work digitally as it happens, ensuring that construction details and as-built information are recorded accurately at the source.
Designed specifically for construction fieldwork, Locusview simplifies complex mapping and data capture tasks, making them accessible to field crews and contractors. This enables utilities to consistently collect high-quality data in the field, supporting compliance requirements and improving downstream operational efficiency.
Once verified, construction data flows into the GIS, asset management and other operational systems, where it’s accessible to all project stakeholders. This streamlines closeout and provides a more complete and reliable picture of what’s been built. Validation is embedded directly into the workflow, allowing issues to be identified earlier and reducing rework before it impacts timelines.
In practice, utilities have seen outcomes such as:
Up to 90% less time spent entering data into systems of record
As much as a 70% reduction in project cycle and closeout time
Fewer rejected work orders, with reductions of up to 50%
Approximately 20% time savings for construction crews
With more than 30 utilities, over 180 contractors and 4,000+ crews using Locusview daily, its DCM platform is becoming increasingly critical as grid investment accelerates and electricity demand continues to rise across the globe.
Expanding Itron’s Resiliency Solutions
With the addition of Locusview, Itron’s Resiliency Solutions now extend more fully into the entire asset lifecycle, where field execution and operations intersect. These solutions help ensure that data generated during build‑out becomes a lasting operational asset, supporting day-to-day operations and long-term asset management well beyond project closeout. This enables a more integrated approach to grid modernization, connecting how infrastructure is built with how it is ultimately operated.
As utilities face rising demand and mounting pressure to modernize, the ability to execute construction with trustworthy data is an absolute necessity. By strengthening the connection between field execution and operational systems, Itron’s Resiliency Solutions empower utilities to plan smarter, build faster and operate more safely in an increasingly complex electricity landscape.

By The Itron Team

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