Kody Salem provides outstanding support for utility technology initiatives such as smart grid and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and outage management systems. Specifically, he leads all business development and partnering efforts for E Source’s technology planning and implementation consulting division. In previous roles, Kody managed the consulting team, matching clients’ needs with best-fit talent. And he provides his own subject-matter expertise for client engagements. Kody has a strong background in radio frequency, instrumentation, and controls technologies, coupled with more than 30 years of technical operations and management experience. As a shift technical engineer and operator-in-charge at a US Department of Energy facility, he learned to lead nontechnical personnel through the performance of many complicated projects and daily operations tasks. Kody received a BS in electrical engineering technology from Purdue University.

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The future of AMI and how utilities can maximize their investments

Kody Salem, Joel Westvold
December 5, 2023

In our recent webinar, we explained how to best leverage an initial investment in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and its next-generation counterpart, AMI 2.0. In this blog post, we share a few key takeaways from the event and feature Halifax Water’s AMI success story.

AMI: More than just a metering project

Nicole Naassan, Kody Salem
March 8, 2023

While it may seem like implementing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has an exclusive metering and reading focus, it’s much more and can change how utilities do business. In this post, we highlight a few ways AMI can have a positive effect on a variety of utility departments.