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sEnsus Exhibit B Technical Support 1. Introduction Sensus Technical Services provides utility customers with a single point of contact for Tier 1 support of technical issues as well as any coordination of additional resources required to resolve the issue. Requests that require specialized skills are to be forwarded to a senior support engineer or Technical Advisor within the team for further analysis. If Technical Services has exhausted all troubleshooting efforts for the product type, the issue will escalate to the Engineering Support Team. Occasionally, on-site troubleshooting/analysis may be required. The preferred order of on-site support is: a) The Customer (for assistance with the easiest and lowest time-consuming activities such as power on/power off). b) The local distributor. c) Sensus employees or contracted personnel, if required to fulfill a contract commitment. 2. Support Categories 2.1. General questions regarding functionality, use of product, how-to, and requests for assistance on Sensus AMR, AMI, RF Network Equipment, Metering Products and Sensus Lighting Control. 2.2. Proactive reporting and resolution of problems. 2.3. Reactive reporting to isolate, document, and solve reported hardware/software defects. 2.4. Responding to service requests and product changes. 2.5. Addressing customer inquiries with printed or electronic documentation, examples, or additional explanation/clarification. 3. Support Hours 3.1. Standard Support Hours: Toll-free telephone support (1-800-638-3748 option #2) is available Monday thru Friday from 8:00AM EST to 6:00PM EST. After-hours, holiday and weekend support for Severity 1 and Severity 2 issues is available by calling 1-800-638-3748, option #8. 4. Support Procedures 4.1. Customer identifies an issue or potential problem and calls Technical Services at 1-800-638-3748 Option #2. The Customer Service Associate or Technical Support Engineer will submit a Support ticket. 4.2. The Customer Service Associate or Technical Support Engineer will identify the caller name and utility by the assigned software serial number, city, and state in which the call originated. The nature of the problem and severity levels will be agreed upon by both parties (either at the time the issue is entered or prior to upgrading or downgrading an existing issue) using the severity definitions below as a guideline. The severity level is then captured into a support ticket for creation and resolution processing. Any time during the processing of this ticket, if the severity level is changed by Sensus, the customer will be updated. Severity Levels Description: Sevi Customer's production system is down. The system is unusable resulting in total disruption of work. No workaround is available and requires immediate attention. Example: Network mass outage, all reading collection devices inoperable, inoperable head end software (e.g., FlexWare, Sensus MDM). Sev2 Major system feature/function failure. Operations are severely restricted; there is a major disruption of work, no acceptable work-around is available, and failure requires immediate attention. Examples: Network equipment failure (e.g., FlexNet Echo, FlexNet Remote, Base Station transceiver, or VGB); inoperable reading devices (e.g., AR5500, VXU, VGB, or Commandlink); head end software application has important functionality not working and cannot create export file for billing system operations. Sev3 The system is usable and the issue doesn't affect critical overall operation. Example: Minor network equipment failure (e.g., Echo/Remote false alarms or Base Station transceiver false alarms); head end software application operable but reports are not running properly, modification of view or some non-critical function of the software is not running. 4.3. The Customer Service Associate or Technical Support Engineer identifies whether or not the customer has a valid support agreement and entitled to receive support. If the customer is not on an active support agreement, the customer is advised of the service options as well as any applicable charges that may be billed. 4.4. Calls are placed in a queue from which they are accessible to Technical Support Engineers on a first-come-first-serve basis. A first level Customer Service Associate may assist the customer, depending on the difficulty of the call and the representative's technical knowledge. Technical Support Engineers (Tier 1 support) typically respond/resolve the majority of calls based on their product knowledge and experience. A call history for the particular account is researched to note any existing pattern or if the call is a new report. This research provides the representative a basis and understanding of the account as well as any REV: 10-07-16 JS CONFIDENTIAL I Page 16 of 30 ATTY/AGR.2016.295/Sensus USA Inc. - AMI Software Agreement