Partners

HAN Partners

SimpleHomeNet is a leader in the development, manufacturing and distribution of products for energy management and home/building automation. Their affordable, convenient, and environment friendly solutions harmoniously integrate systems in your home or building to save you money.

Applying decades of connectivity experience, Alektrona specializes in networking smart energy devices and applications, not making them. As such, Alektrona makes the industry’s most compatible and capable energy management platform.

Digi International is the leader in commercial grade device networking and is an innovator of wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) device networking products.  Digi solutions are designed to provide end-to-end wireless access to electronic devices in places where wires will not work or cannot be used, making it easy for customers to effectively “drop-in” a wireless M2M solution.  When combined with iDigi™ solution bundles and services, M2M deployments are easier, faster and more economical than ever for smart energy applications such as smart metering, demand response, alternative energy, and distribution automation.

Energate is a fast-emerging global market leader for home energy management and demand response solutions: controls, systems, software and services. Energate's Consumer Connected Demand Response (CCDR) solution, including industry-leading smart thermostats, is empowering companies and consumers to take advantage of new technology to manage energy use, enhance convenience, and deliver comfort in an increasingly integrated world.

AMI Partners

Trilliant is a Smart Grid communications company, supplying utilities with wireless mesh equipment to enable two-way communication networks throughout the electric grid. The focus is on providing electric utilities with end-to-end communications networks that span from the head-end operations center to all devices on the grid – not only meters and in-home energy management devices but also substations and grid devices such as transformers and capacitor banks. Trilliant solutions help utilities deploy Smart Grid networks throughout their entire territory to improve energy efficiency, integrate renewable resources, and optimize grid operations.

Itron Inc. is a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries. Itron Inc. consists of Itron in North America and Actaris outside of North America. Itron is the world’s leading provider of metering, data collection and utility software solutions, with nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on their technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water.

Landis+Gyr is the leading provider of integrated energy management solutions tailored to energy company needs. With a global presence and a reputation for quality and innovation, Landis+Gyr is unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid.

Software Partners

Eragy’s energy monitoring software for consumers, myEragy, is a free energy monitoring tool that allows homeowners to view their home's energy usage and cost from anywhere online.  myEragy is a GooglePowerMeter alternative and, when coupled with a compatible in-home power sensor, enables homeowners to save up to 20% or more off their monthly electric bills.

Empower Software enables consumers to manage and simplify their energy consumption. By using Empower's smart energy monitoring tools, customers better understand their consumption. This information empowers them to lower utility costs, benefiting both themselves and the environment.

Gridata™ gives small and medium businesses a secure and innovative monitoring and analytics platform, leveraging extensive experience in the energy, software, analytics, standards and sensors’ industries.  Gridata’s Energy Intelligence Platform™ is an embedded home area network (HAN) software solution designed for appliance & consumer electronics manufacturers looking to easily add energy management capabilities to any product.  It allows appliance & connected-device makers to deliver products with an intuitive, integrated awareness about energy use that allow consumers to make informed decisions regarding their every-day energy consumption.

Bit Stew’s Grid Director 2.0 platform includes a Home Energy Management solution that has been designed to give consumers the information they need, when they need and where they need it. It has been crafted to help make conservation a natural behaviour change with consumers. The platform makes use of social networking, text messaging, and intuitive yet simple messages that lower energy consumption.

Genability has assembled a database of electricity pricing information from over 3500 electricity providers throughout North America, and are putting this data in the hands of electricity consumers and companies that assist them, to help everyone make more informed choices about when to use, store and sell electricity.  Genability is building the best electricity pricing and optimization data and tools, and making them open and available via apps, web services and APIs. These will allow Genability and their partners to give homes and businesses insight, control, and ultimately choice over the energy they use, produce, buy, and sell.

Technology Partners

NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal semiconductor solutions to meet the challenging requirements of systems and sub-systems in today's complex technology markets. These solutions are an optimized mix of analog and digital functionality integrated into a system or sub-system, and are fine-tuned to meet the specific performance, cost, power, size and quality requirements of applications such as ZigBee Smart Energy.

RFaxis leads the way in next-generation wireless solutions designed for the Bluetooth, WLAN, MIMO, Zigbee, WiMAX, and mobile phone markets. Leveraging BiCMOS/CMOS process in conjunction with its own innovative approach and technology, RFaxis is home to the world's first RF Front-end Integrated Circuit (RFeIC).  RFaxis offers system designers and product developers highly integrated, single-chip, single-die RFeICs that significantly simplify the design task and substantially improve performance. Moreover, these ICs also drastically reduce the system noise and lower end product cost.

Certicom protects billions of dollars worth of content and millions of devices around the world. With over 350 patents and patents pending worldwide covering key aspects of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Certicom provides the core technology for the National Security Agency (NSA) Suite B standard for secure government communications.  As the world-leading expert in public key infrastructure implementations, device security, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, asset management, and fixed-mobile convergence, many of the largest companies and government agencies rely on Certicom technology to secure applications, communications, and mobile devices while protecting content and other critical assets..

Chumby is a content platform that serves flash-based apps across multiple devices.  It supports connected TVs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, tablets, internet alarm clocks, digital picture frames and more.  There are over 1500 apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Accuweather, CBS Sports, Flickr, Pandora and more.

Ubilogix International, Inc. is a leading provider of consulting services and analysis tools for wireless sensor network applications to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, installers and administrators of wireless embedded networks. Time to market is a key element in today’s embedded wireless industry and Ubilogix professional tools help companies shorten their development cycle with intuitive but reliable solutions to address the challenges that developers face.

ZigBee offers green and global wireless standards connecting the widest range of devices to work together intelligently and help you control your world. The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non- profit association of approximately 400 members driving development of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards. The Alliance promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer, commercial and industrial areas.