Cities and utilities across the globe are faced with a number of growing challenges around sustainability, infrastructure resiliency and inclusivity. At this year's Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) from Nov. 15 to 17 in Barcelona, Spain, we look forward to discussing how utilities can take the next steps to address these challenges while reimagining how to deliver critical services with industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. We hope to see you there alongside leaders from the industry's most innovative cities, governments and technology partners to work together for a better future. Find us in Stands #61 (Microsoft) and #193 (TALQ Consortium).

Here are a few of the solutions and services attendees will learn more about at SCEWC 2022:

Itron's Diverse Partner Ecosystem and Solution Marketplace
Itron partners with technology innovators, consultants, service providers and channel partners to deliver outcomes for utilities and cities in our mission to create a more resourceful world. Our extensive partner ecosystem connects customers in global markets with Itron solutions to accelerate the modernization of energy, water and smart city infrastructure. It also provides world-class services that enable our customers to transform their business systems and processes, delivering enhanced customer service, safety and reliability. Our growing partner ecosystem offers the broadest range of proven applications in utility IoT, grid and resource management, smart cities, consumer engagement and more.

Itron & Microsoft: A Proven Partnership
We know that we can't achieve our mission of creating a more resourceful world alone. In partnership with world-class technology leaders like Microsoft, we are helping cities and utilities solve real challenges today while preparing for tomorrow. One example is our standards-based utility network and smart cities platforms, which leverage the power of the Microsoft Azure cloud to help reduce operational costs, leverage multi-layer security and speed the innovation cycle for new applications. Together, we're committed to finding new ways to add more value to our customers' investments.

Meeting the Standard: TALQ Consortium
Itron is a proud member of the TALQ Consortium. Founded in 2012 initially by smart outdoor lighting vendors, TALQ has become an open industry consortium addressing the entire smart city environment and defined a globally accepted interface standard for smart city device networks. The Smart City Protocol is a specification for information exchange and is suitable for integration in various software products and systems. TALQ provides answers to the main challenges of building smart cities including increasing safety and comfort for residents, reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions worldwide as well as raising cost efficiency for operators managing a smart city. Find us in Stand #193 to "TALQ" smart cities.

Brighter Communities
With up to 50% energy savings and 20% operational savings, smart street lighting is the ideal starting point for a smart city initiative. Energy efficient LED technology is enabling cities to reduce energy waste and improve safety and operational efficiency. Itron extends these benefits with a future-ready wireless streetlight control platform that creates a network foundation for long term value. As cities continue to evolve, Itron's intelligent streetlight solution is empowering lighting departments around the world, giving them the flexibility and control to add new sensors, unlocking breakthrough capabilities. Utilities and cities can push the capabilities of outdoor lighting control with Streetlight.Vision, the world's leading smart city central management software. The software delivers advanced asset management, analytics and control capabilities to improve energy efficiency, optimize system performance and efficiently integrate business processes. Starting with a proven anchor application, such as smart street lighting, creates the underlying industrial IoT (IIoT) communication infrastructure for future use cases that can lay the foundation for any smart city.

Smart Cities: Sustainability Through Streetlights
Itron's smart city solutions can help utilities and cities transform service delivery to improve efficiencies, lower carbon emissions, create safer neighborhoods and enhance both equality and quality of life for all citizens. With smart streetlights and industrial IoT sensors deployed, utilities can unlock insights to help improve operations and experience benefits that span far beyond lighting. Itron's smart city solutions allow cities and utilities to layer on numerous industrial IoT sensors and applications to ease traffic congestion, mitigate crime, enhance outage detection, accelerate emergency response and disaster restoration, and much more. Itron has a robust portfolio of scalable applications and use cases to meet the needs of smart cities across the globe.

Intelligent Connectivity
Connectivity and intelligence enable the digital transformation of critical energy, water and city services. Itron's globally proven, multi-purpose platform securely connects millions of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices around the world through multiple transport methods including RF mesh, cellular and more. With IIoT platforms suited for any combination of water, electricity and gas solutions, cities, utilities and critical infrastructure operators rely on us to help them deliver more efficient, reliable and resilient services. With full backward and forward compatibility, our IoT devices and sensors are designed to last for decades and enable new services that provide lasting value to consumers – and we have the customer successes to prove it.

Connect with Itron at SCEWC
We'd love to see you! Opportunities to connect with our team at SCEWC 2022 are outlined below:

• Stand #61 Meet the team at our stand in the Microsoft booth.
• Stand #193 Are you ready to TALQ smart cities at the Congress?
• Presentation: Wed., Nov. 16 at 11:30 a.m. Streetlights as a Tool to Manage Carbon Emissions. Join Itron's Dan Evans as he discusses how IoT-connected smart streetlights can be the key to measuring and lowering carbon emissions across a city. Presentation located in Microsoft's booth AGORA.
• Presentation: Wed., Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. How Ecosystem Collaboration Will Power the Growth of Smart Cities. How can cities unlock more value from smart infrastructure? Hear from Brian McGuigan as he highlights the value of a strong and diverse smart city partner ecosystem. Presentation located in Microsoft's booth AGORA.
• Schedule a Meeting: Let's share a drink, a bite and conversation! Meet with Itron.

Learn more at itron.com/smart-cities.