Tropos Networks

The company's customer base is concentrated in the smart grid, municipal government, public safety and open pit mining vertical markets.

Notable customers include Avista,[2] Glendale Water & Power, Duncan, Oklahoma,[3] and Lafayette Utilities System.

Tropos Network has been acquired by ABB Power Grids group in June 2012 now part of the Hitachi Energy portfolio.

Utilities deploying a smart grid use Tropos for building a regional-scale distribution area communications networks covering hundreds to thousands of square miles.

[4] Additionally, Tropos technology is employed by municipalities to improve efficiencies of a broad range of city services including Intelligent Transportation Systems, automated meter reading (AMR), public safety, and video surveillance.