07/10-09   -   Press releases

End-to-End Smart Energy Solution based on IP v.6 at Metering Europe

Microsoft Gold certified Partner Power Economizer and EMC, ELV and co2online offering:

Barcelona - October 7th, 2009 – Microsoft Gold certified Partner Power Economizer, EMC, ELV and co2online presents a ground-breaking Smart Energy solution based on Microsoft technologies at the 11th Metering & Billing / CRM Europe (booth 633). The offering spans from the collection of electricity, gas, and water meters data, over in-home displays, intelligent gateways, frontend software for the web, mobile phones like iPhone and Windows Mobile, backend-Internet and “cloud" services all the way to business process oriented integration into ERP systems, such as SAP’s ISU industry solution for utilities.

The interest in automated solutions for measuring and controlling energy consumption has rapidly grown in the past years, driven by public policy such as the EU Energy Directive, but at least equally by consumer interest fuelled through increasing energy costs and strong attention for CO2 and climate change. With over 1.500 attendees, Metering Europe is among the most important events of the industry.
This is an end-to-end solution which integrates both smart meters as well as legacy meters installed today. The standards-based offering is not limited to a single type of smart meter interfaces, but offers a suite of connection options integrating all variants promoted today. Thanks to the integration with readily available energy control devices, utilities of all sizes are enabled to improve the utilization of their grid, plus provide an attractive return of invest for the consumers at the same time, solving critical challenges in today’s business cases for smart meters.

EMC provides multichannel customer interfaces in addition to its consulting and system integration capabilities. Hamburg, Germany based Power Economizer demonstrates its white label and cloud computing based portal solution in addition to gateway software, user interfaces for various types of devices and integration with home control to help better manage consumption. ELV is the provider of meter reading and collection devices, energy management, heating control and home automation devices, plus consumer-level priced gateways of the exhibit at Metering Europe. NGO co2online completes the solution with advanced, extensible web-based tools that online-consult end-users about their personal utilization of energy and make specific recommendations about specific options for energy conservation and CO2 reduction. Microsoft technologies in the solution include: (Azure Hosting Services, Silverlight for innovative dashboards, Biztalk for fast, seamless backend integration, winCE for intelligent Gateway).

Based on today´s technology with open standards and interfaces the end-to-end-solutions offer:
- increased living comfort for consumers (control of all home devices like heating, energy devices etc.) in combination with decreased energy consumption (by 20 % via in-house displays, picture frames, dashboards, iPhones, MDA´s etc.)
- for retailers - building a new level of relationship and increased selling potentials in new markets with utility branded dashboards
- for generations - reduce consumption-peaks
- handling CO²-certificates more effective (get money back from EU)

This solution displays an advanced smart meter concept that enables energy providers to realize mass market projects more rapidly and to establish a platform for future growth at the same time.

About Power Economizer
Power Economizer, PECO, is the leading software company for home automation and smarter metering. PECO is delivering web and azure based white label portal solutions to fulfill the requirements from utilities and customers. Based on industry standards like KNX, IPv6, and other RF protocols PECO’s software delivers the links for the today’s value chain. Promoted by German government PECO software is used in the biggest field test for Home Automation and Smart Metering in Germany.

About EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation, the world leader of information infrastructure solutions, helps energy clients achieve their goals in innovation, change management, operational excellence and improving their customers’ experience through its expertise in Smart Metering / Grid, Asset Monitoring & Optimisation, Real-time Systems Business Intelligence, Global Data Transformation and Customer Self-Service. Within the EMC Global Services organization, EMC Consulting provides the strategic guidance and technology expertise organisations need to manage their business and information infrastructure challenges and derive the maximum value from their information assets and investments. EMC Consulting helps customers, including more than half of the Global Fortune 500 Companies leverage information in new ways to navigate challenging market conditions and excel in the information economy. By offering broad consulting expertise across organisations’ business, applications and infrastructure architectures, as well as industry expertise in Financial Services, Utilities/Oil/Gas, Communications/Media/ Entertainment, and Retail, and innovative user experience and design, EMC Consulting delivers the transformational thinking and execution required to turn the potential of information into actionable strategies and business results.

About ELV / eQ-3 group
Founded in 1978, the ELV / eQ-3 group is one of the leading European players in home control and home energy management. Part of the group is one of the largest electronics catalogue and Internet retailers, offering over 11.000 products in a 760+ page catalogue printed in more than 500.000 copies. With more than 150 product types developed and manufactured in house, ELV provides the largest and most flexible product portfolio in the industry to retailers, distributors, utilities, and as OEM products. All products are designed and developed in ELV’s 60+ person R&D centre in Leer, Germany and manufactured in its wholly owned production facility in Zhuhai, China that is certified according to ISO9001, VDE, VdS, ETL, and UL – thus enabling ELV to providing an ideal combination of cost and quality.

About co2online
Is a non-profit limited liability company campaigning to reduce emissions of the climate-threatening gas carbon dioxide (CO2). With online advisers, energy savings accounts, municipal heating surveys and a climate quiz as well as partners from business, media and politics, co2online motivates private households, trade and commerce to become actively involved in climate protection – and to save money at the same time. co2online informs and motivates mainly on technical modernisation measures for heating and thermal insulation in existing buildings and on early replacement of inefficient appliances. co2online is in charge of three nationwide campaigns in Germany (klima-sucht-schutz.de; heizspiegel.de, energiesparclub.de) which are co-funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry.

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