ZigBee Alliance Adds Itron to Board of Directors

Addition Underscores Alliance’s Commitment to Meeting the Needs of Utility Companies for Delivering Energy Management and Efficiency Solutions Globally

San Ramon, Calif. – June 6, 2007 – The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in residential, commercial and industrial applications, today announced that Itron Inc. is now a Promoter level member and the newest member of the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.

Itron, a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries, has been a Participant level member of the Alliance since 2006. The Promoter level enjoys additional benefits and voting rights while serving on the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.

Itron is the world’s leading provider of solid-state electricity meters and advanced metering technology. Itron’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution, OpenWay™, is based on open-architecture and leverages ZigBee’s ability to connect wirelessly to ZigBee home area networks. OpenWay delivers advanced, two-way communication technology which enables utilities to meet their business needs for meter data collection and to communicate with a large variety of energy consuming devices, such as air conditioners, household appliances, hot water heaters and pool pumps to more effectively and efficiently use energy.

“Since ZigBee is an open global standard, utilities can benefit from unprecedented new opportunities to implement demand response and other new programs stemming from AMI rollouts,” said Philip Mezey, senior vice president and COO for Itron North America. “Joining the Board of Directors allows Itron to work more closely with ZigBee to promote energy management and efficiency solutions which ultimately help the environment and energy customers everywhere.”

Itron joins Cellnet, Eaton Corporation, Ember Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Honeywell, Huawei Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Tendril Networks on the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.

"Itron's commitment to open standards and the ZigBee Alliance substantially reinforces the emerging trend to offer utilities robust and secure AMI solutions utilizing ZigBee technology," said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. "Itron's leadership and know-how, garnered over years of serving as a technology provider to the global energy and water industries, will be of great value to the Alliance in developing best in class solutions for this industry.

About Itron Inc.
Itron Inc. is a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries. Itron Inc. consists of two operating companies: Itron in North America and Actaris outside of North America. Our combined company is the world’s leading provider of metering, data collection and utility software solutions, with nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on our technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Our products include electricity, gas and water meters, data collection and communication systems, including automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); meter data management and related software applications; as well as project management, installation, and consulting services. To know more, start here: www.itron.com.

ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance membership comprises technology providers and original equipment manufacturers worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org.

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