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Silver Spring Networks Unveils SLV6, Next-Generation Smart City Control and Management PlatformToday at the IES Street & Area Lighting Conference, North America's largest conference for the outdoor lighting businesses of electric utilities and energy service providers, Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE:SSNI) announced Streetlight.Vision 6 (SLV6), its new street light and smart city control and management platform. With more than 100 new features, SLV6 provides cities, utilities, and energy services companies with a comprehensive platform to support their smart city needs and create more value from their existing street light networks. SLV6 is commercially available today. Today, Silver Spring also opened early access to its smart city developer program and App Store, which allows software developers and device manufacturers to build new smart city applications and devices for the SLV6 platform, accelerating innovation for customers and providing partners with new routes to market and revenue opportunities. "In partnership with Silver Spring, Florida Power & Light (FPL) has initiated what is believed to be the largest networked street lights project in the world - nearly 500,000 lights across FPL's Florida service territory," said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of Florida Power & Light. "Establishing a smart street light network will continue the advancement of our smart grid and deliver benefits to our customers, including more reliable and efficient service. We welcome the enhancements of SLV6 to help us achieve these benefits for our customers." "As an international smart city solution partner with presence in 20 countries, Bouygues Energies & Services has decided to include the new SLV6 city control and management platform in our Citybox solutions for our global public lighting, cities, and energy customer base," said Christophe Grattarola, Director of the Smart City Market at Bouygues Energies & Services. "Cities around the world are leveraging technologies to help them conserve energy, improve economic competitiveness, and deliver better services to citizens. We are happy to partner with Streetlight.Vision and Silver Spring Networks to bring our customers the advanced solution." SLV6: Advanced Smart City Platform Includes More Than 100 New Features Silver Spring delivers SLV control software for smart city and smart lighting networks in more than 500 cities in 16 countries. As public lighting can consume as much as 40% of a municipality's energy budget, cities across the globe are looking to remotely manage their lighting networks to lower energy consumption, improve lighting reliability and public safety, and establish a smart city platform upon which future applications can be deployed. With the introduction of SLV6, customers will be able to benefit from more than 100 new features, including:
Early Access to SLV6 Smart City Developer Program and App Store is Now Open Silver Spring also announced early access to the SLV6 developer program and App Store. The SLV6 App Store will include new applications from Silver Spring and third-party application developers and device manufacturers leveraging the SLV6 open data platform, the SLV6 Software Developer Kit (SDK), and RESTful APIs to drive development of innovative smart city solutions:
Software developers and smart city device manufacturers interested in early access to the SLV6 developer program, please visit: www.streetlight-vision.com/developers/ To learn more about the new SLV6 control and management platform, and Silver Spring's smart lighting and smart city solutions, please visit the Silver Spring IES SALC 2015 Booth (# 23) from October 5-7 in Savannah, GA, or visit www.silverspringnet.com/smartcities/. Join the Silver Spring Networks Conversation
About Silver Spring Networks Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. Silver Spring's pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with over 21.5 million Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting utilities to homes and business throughout the world with the goal of achieving greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring's innovative solutions enable utilities to gain operational efficiencies, improve grid reliability, and empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver Spring Networks' customers include major utilities around the globe such as Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Commonwealth Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Progress Energy and Singapore Power, among others. To learn more, please visit www.silverspringnet.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements about Silver Spring Networks' expectations, plans, intentions, and strategies, including, but not limited to statements regarding the benefits and capabilities of Silver Spring Network's SLV6 platform, as well as Silver Spring Networks' projects with Florida Power & Light and Bouygues Energies & Services. Statements including words such as "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or "future" and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions, which, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include those described in Silver Spring Networks' documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Silver Spring Networks as of the date hereof. Silver Spring Networks assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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