Onzo provides energy and water utilities with the tools that enable them to build more valuable relationships with their customers, dramatically enhancing their understanding of, and ability to influence, their customers’ behaviour.
Those tools include a comprehensive and engaging set of customer touchpoints (display, web, electronic media, printed report) and a data analytics platform. They improve customer acquisition and retention; improve the return on investment of smart grid, smart metering, and demand response programmes; can fulfil regulatory requirements; and provide a platform for value-added services.
Onzo’s Professional Services team helps utilities to shape projects in these areas, integrate with existing utility initiatives and maximise the potential of Onzo’s offerings within them.
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Onzo and Echelon Corp become Smart Grid partners to develop consumer touchpoints for Echelon's Networked Energy Services System
28th OCTOBER 2009
Onzo, the creator of award-winning smart customer solutions for utilities, and Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a leading advanced metering infrastructure company, have signed an agreement to enable Onzo to develop consumer displays for Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) System.
Planned collaboration will build on Onzo’s expertise in developing in-home displays, intelligent energy analysis software and consumer orientated web portals. This will not only enable consumers to monitor energy consumption in real time, but it will also facilitate energy-use behaviour change to benefit both the consumer and utility.
Joel Hagan, CEO of Onzo, said: "This agreement will enable Onzo to provide utilities that choose Echelon’s NES System with solutions that match today's sophisticated consumer demands, allowing them to offer friendly yet powerful interfaces for energy monitoring and management. Echelon provides a unique architecture based on open standards which enables the extension of basic AMR functionality to a rich application portfolio and offers capabilities to go beyond the meter."
Mark Ossel, Vice President Echelon Energy & Utility, said: “Engaging with the consumer is a key challenge for utilities. We are excited to be working with Onzo and believe that the combination of Onzo’s consumer interfaces and Echelon’s NES System will be able to offer new services to consumers, utilities and laterally to their distribution networks. Onzo demonstrates the advantages of an open architecture with the addition of innovative applications on the head-end and end-user devices beyond the meter.”
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1) For more information please contact:
Emily Feltham, +44 (0)20 3128 8122 or 07782 481 818
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Nicole Martin, +44 (0)20 3128 8172 or +44 (0)7768 695 087
Nicole.martin@yourmandate.com
2) Echelon
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is leading the worldwide transformation of the electricity grid into a smart, communicating energy network, connecting utilities to their customers, enabling networking of everyday devices, and providing customers with energy aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid.
Echelon's NES System – the backbone for the smart grid – is used by utilities to replace existing stand-alone electricity meters with a network infrastructure that is open, inexpensive, reliable, and proven. The NES System helps utilities compete more effectively, reduce operating costs, provide expanded services and help energy users manage and reduce overall energy use. Echelon's LonWorks® Infrastructure products extend the smart grid, powering tens of millions of energy aware, everyday devices made by thousands of companies – connecting them to each other, to the electricity grid and to the Internet. LonWorks based products work together to monitor and save energy; lower costs; improve productivity; and enhance service, quality, safety, and convenience in utility, municipal, building, industrial, transportation, and home area networks.
More information about Echelon can be found here.
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ONZO SIGNS MULTI-YEAR, MULTI-MILLION POUND DEAL WITH JABIL TO PRODUCE SMART ENERGY KITS
Onzo, the creator of smart customer solutions for utilities, has signed a multi-year, multi-million pound deal with electronic product solutions company Jabil, which will allow Onzo to deliver its Smart Energy Kits to customers across the world.
Jabil will begin manufacturing the in-home displays and power sensor in Poland during the first quarter of next year, paving the way for Onzo to supply its energy monitoring kits to utility customers in Europe, North America and Australasia.
The kits, which will come in a range of colours, enable consumers to monitor energy consumption in their home, helping people to reduce electricity bills – and their carbon footprint. The system comes with a sensor, which is clipped to the meter cable; a wireless, rechargeable, hand-held display, which tells consumers in real time how much energy they are using and what it is costing them; and access to web services.
Last year, Scottish and Southern Energy signed a deal to invest in Onzo and placed an initial order for the Smart Energy Kit as part of an exclusive UK & Ireland deal. This new agreement with Jabil will allow Onzo to not only meet this demand, but take their device into other markets.
Joel Hagan, CEO of Onzo, said: "This agreement will provide Onzo with European manufacturing capabilities to deliver our Home Energy Kits to some of the largest and fastest growing home energy monitoring markets in the world.
"Jabil's high-quality standards and extensive experience in the manufacturing industry makes them an ideal partner for producing Onzo’s products in the volumes necessary to serve our utility customers."
Kevin Mazula, Vice President of Global Business Units for Jabil, said: “We are excited to be working with Onzo, a leader in this fast developing sector, and happy to continue expanding our home energies portfolio of partnerships.”
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Jabil
Jabil is an electronic product solutions company providing comprehensive electronics design, manufacturing and product management services to global electronics and technology companies. Jabil helps bring electronics products to the market faster and more cost effectively by providing complete product supply chain management around the world. With more than 85,000 employees and facilities in 22 countries, Jabil provides comprehensive, individualized-focused solutions to customers in a broad range of industries. Jabil common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, "JBL". Further information is available on the company's website: www.jabil.com
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Energy white paper must engage consumers
LONDON – JULY 14, 2009
The Government’s Energy White Paper, to be published tomorrow, will fail unless urgent steps are taken to encourage consumers to cut their energy consumption in the home, according to Onzo, which works with utilities to change their customers’ behaviour.
Joel Hagan, the company’s chief executive, said that ministers committed to a low-carbon economy needed to do more to raise awareness of the amount of energy people were wasting in their homes
“If the Government is serious about cutting CO2 emissions, it needs to tackle the chronic energy inefficiency of the country's existing homes,” said Mr Hagan. “The most promising way to deal with the problem in practical terms is by promoting behaviour change among householders.
“The Government claims the general introduction of "smart" gas and electricity meters will do that, This is not true. Smart meters provide greater accuracy and frequency of billing but on their own do not provide any more information to consumers, or incentive to change their behaviour, than the present generation of meters does.
“Reducing energy usage and cutting carbon emissions requires effective consumer engagement. Research shows that real-time energy monitoring displays in the home are the most effective tool for bringing about a reduction in energy use. They can cause a fall of some 14 per cent if used fully.
“Rather than demanding investment that is just not going to materialise in the short to medium term, the Government should accept reality and concentrate on promoting more practical ways of meeting the aim of cutting energy use in the home.”
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