QinetiQ North America Signs Reseller Agreement with Border States for LineWatch Power Line Sensor Products
Summary
WALTHAM, Mass., April 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America (QNA) today announced that it has finalized a distributor agreement with Border States Electrical (BSE) to resell QNAs LineWatch low and medium voltage sensor systems. Under this agreement, LineWatch "bird-on-wire" sensors will be distributed to utility customers in BSEs eighteen state territory including Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. LineWatch senses and monitors low (600 V) and medium (36 kV) voltage power lines to provide utilities with highly accurate (±0.5%) current and voltage data that enables a full range of applications to improve distribution grid operations and efficiency including: legacy substation monitoring, asset management, distribution automation, fault detection and location, volt/VAR and CVR optimization, theft detection and others. Lastly, LineWatch is a native Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) device so it integrates with any existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) infrastructure. Customers rely on QNA products to increase situational awareness, aid in personal safety, enhance security and streamline operations.