We’re all familiar with how technology has advanced the way people complete day-today tasks. Smartphones, smart appliances, and artificial intelligence technology have infiltrated our lives – for better or for worse – to assist us with managing our daily to-dos.

Many utilities use CRC as a one-stop shop when it comes to their call handling needs – consumer call handling and dispatching of outage calls. But some utilities with established staffing in place may not need a full-service solution.

This information is being provided from the perspective of Cooperative Response Center, Inc. (CRC), a contact (call) center offering call handling and crew dispatch services to 350 utilities, most of which serve between 5,000 and 100,000 meters.

In 2017, CRC completed integrating CRCLink® with its membership’ s outage management systems (OMS) via MultiSpeak® 4.1.6. This integration enables CRC to receive predicted outages to the meter, improve crew management, and confirm devices.