Hitachi and Tendril have announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver smart energy applications to consumers through a variety of set-top boxes, wireless gateways and other devices that are already in the home. This will improve the economics of home energy management by providing an economical and operational approach to special-purpose gateways and specialized hardware for each application used by subscribers.
Through the Hitachi/Tendril relationship, the Tendril Energize suite of web and mobile home energy management applications will now be available through the Hitachi SuperJ®Applications Ecosystem, an open, Java-based platform compliant with OSGiTM specifications. Service providers that already have gateways and set-tops in the home can add energy monitoring, management and device control to smart home applications and services. Energy providers will be able to meet their energy efficiency with these service providers and multiple gateway suppliers.
Tendril’s energy consumer engagement application combined with Hitachi’s SuperJ applications ecosystem ensures that consumers have expanded and ready access to the latest applications for home energy management, and provides energy, telecom and cable service providers with an open, cloud-based platform that supports ease of deployment and lifecycle maintenance. Hitachi and Tendril have already validated the operation of the Tendril application running on SuperJ-enabled gateways from several service provider gateways.
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