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ITRON Newsletter No.13
ITRON Technical Committee, TRON Association

Katsuta Building 5F, 3-39, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, JAPANTEL: (03) 3454-3191
FAX: (03) 3454-3224
as part of its regular PR and information-providing
activities. This service should also make it easier fordevelopers to nd out about each other and exchange
information among themselves.
Details of the service are given in ITRON Standard
Guidebook 2, section V.4 (Jap.), or may be obtainedby contacting the TRON Association.

About the ITRON Newsletter

This newsletter is issued regularly by the ITRONTechnical Committee in the TRON Association. Theintention is to make available information about theITRON subproject and the work of the TechnicalCommittee. In order to get this information to a wideaudience, the newsletter is published in TRONWARE
magazine and the TRON Project Bimonthly, as well
as being distributed via the Internet in Postscript format.
With this issue we enter our third year of publication. We would like to take this opportunity to thankall those involved in preparing and distributing thenewsletter for their on-going cooperation.
The ITRON Newsletter is used as a vehicle forannouncing additions and changes to ITRON speci cations, or to other documents published by theITRON Technical Committee. Other purposes are
to introduce products implementing ITRON speci cations, announce the publication of books and otherdocuments, post notices on coming seminars or similar events, and describe how individual companies areinvolving themselves in the ITRON subproject.
Anyone wishing to submit an article for the ITRON
Newsletter is encouraged to contact the ITRON Technical Committee. We also welcome your questions,comments and requests related to ITRON speci cations or the subproject in general.

Listed below are the publications prepared and issued
by the ITRON Technical Committee as of February
1, 1995. The ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook isa one-volume compilation of ITRON (Ver 2.0) andITRON2 speci cations. Each of the publications below can be obtained directly from the sources indicated.
The latest version of ITRON3.0 is now Ver
3.02.00. Changes made since the ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook was released (Ver 3.00.00) are noted
in Newsletter No.5 and No.11, as well as in ITRON
Standard Guidebook 2.
The recently issued ITRON Standard Guidebook 2,
which is a general introduction to the ITRON speci cations, deals primarily with ITRON3.0. Meanwhile, the earlier ITRON Standard Guidebook '92'93 remains as a valuable reference for use with theITRON (Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations, eventhough the dates in its title are now past.

Registration System for ITRON-related

ITRON-related

ITRON-related Publications

EventsScheduledfor

Products and Applications

Fiscal 1995

The ITRON Technical Committee provides a product registration service, aimed at promoting thewidespread use of the ITRON speci cations. Developers of ITRON-speci cation operating systems,
ITRON-related tools, ITRON application products
and the like may register them with the TRON Association, which will in turn publicize these products

Described below are a few of the events planned for
FY 1995 by the ITRON Technical Committee.
This year's ITRON Open Seminar will be held
Thursday, July 20, at the Shinagawa community center \Kurian" in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward (located one
minute from the south exit of Oimachi Station on theJR Keihin Tohoku line). Details will be announced as
the time draws near. For this year's seminar we are soliciting presentations also from outside the subproject.

y This newsletter is reprinted from TRONWARE vol.32 andTRON PROJECT BIMONTHLY No.37.

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ITRON-related Publications

NameType
Price
Publisher
IssuedISBN No.
ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook Speci cation (Jap.)
4,800Yen Personal Media Co. 1990 4-89362-079-7
ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
4,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1993 4-89362-106-8
ITRON/FILE Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
3,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-092-4
ITRON Standard Guidebook '92-'93
Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-197-6
ITRON Standard Guidebook 2
Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1994 4-89362-133-5
ITRON Speci cation Ver 2.01.00.00 Speci cation (Eng.) 12,000Yen TRON Association 1989
{ITRON2 Speci cation Ver 2.02.00.10
Speci cation (Eng.) 15,000Yen TRON Association1990{
ITRON3.0 Speci cation Ver 3.00.00 Speci cation (Eng.){TRON Association1994{NOTES:- Prices do not include consumption tax.
- The documents issued by the TRON Association are available to Association members at a special discount rate.
- English-language speci cations can be obtained via the Internet from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11] withanonymous ftp. The usage of anonymous ftp is explained in Newsletter No.8.

The contents may be any topic relevant to the ITRON
speci cations, such as application or implementation
examples, reports on experiences with applying or implementing ITRON, or descriptions of ITRON-related
tools. Those interested in giving a presentation areasked to send an abstract to the ITRON TechnicalCommittee care of the TRON Association. Please include your name and summarize the presentation contents brie y. The ITRON Technical Committee will
choose the presenters on this basis.
This coming scal year is also one in which we areputting an extra e ort into publicizing the ITRON
speci cations outside of Japan. As one example, wewill be taking part in the Embedded Systems Conference to be held from September 12 through 15 in San
Jose, California. The ITRON speci cations will be introduced in a presentation on the subject, \Standard
Real-Time Operating System Speci cation in Japan
for Consumer Applications." Back in Asia, tentativeplans are being laid to hold a seminar on the ITRON
speci cations in China. Details will be announced asthey unfold; meanwhile, those with a special interestin this event may contact the ITRON Technical Committee for more information.
Other events include, of course, the annual TRON
Project Symposium and TRONSHOW scheduled forthe end of November and early December.
We ask all our supporters to take an active part in
ITRON-related events again this year.

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