To implement an energy management system requires a powerful network. And we know that success comes not just from the products we provide. It’s also about the company we keep.
At Tendril, we understand the importance of creating and cultivating solid strategic partnerships. In order to flourish in this rapidly expanding industry, a whole lot of collaboration and coordination among complementary players is required. Without these synergies, critical mass will never be realized.
That’s why we seek to partner with companies that offer a special combination of market leadership, technical knowledge, industry know-how and plain old street smarts.
ZigBee Network
Ember
The leading provider of ZigBee networking systems, Ember enables communication among embedded microcontrollers with standards-based wireless mesh networking semiconductors and software. Ember helps its customers automate home appliances, lower energy consumption in buildings, keep borders and infrastructure secure, and control industrial processes, just to name four of the many diverse applications being developed by Ember’s more than 100 customers.
Spun out of MIT in 2001, Ember is a lead member of the ZigBee Alliance, and its platform is the National Technical Systems’ (NTS) “Golden Suite” for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing.
More information on Ember can be found by visiting their Web site.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated is a leader in the real-time technologies that help people communicate, and the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age.
TI is moving fast to drive the Internet age forward with semiconductor solutions for large markets such as wireless and broadband access and for new emerging markets such as digital cameras and digital audio. TI envisions a world where every phone call, every Internet connection, every photograph you take, every song you listen to are touched by the power of TI's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and Analog technologies.
That dream is coming true. TI is making it happen right now.
More information on Texas Instruments can be found by visiting their Web site.
Manufacturers
CompuTime
Founded in 1974, CompuTime is a global technology and manufacturing company that provides innovative automation and control solutions to their customers in the industrial, commercial and consumer markets. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Computime operates more than a dozen design, manufacturing and sales facilities in Asia, Europe and North America. Computime designs, manufactures and distributes products and systems with an objective to make people’s lives safer, more productive and comfortable.
More information on CompuTime can be found by visiting their Web site.
L.S. Research
Based out of Cedarburg, WI and is a premier wireless product development company specializing in RF design, software development and FCC/CE certification services. At the forefront of the latest wireless technologies -- Wibree, Zigbee, Wireless USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and UWB, the company's 27 years of proven wireless product development experience has helped Fortune 500 and startup companies. It is the only all-in-one wireless design and FCC / CE testing facility in the country.
More information on L.S. Research can be found by visiting their Web site.
Meter Partners
Tendril is working closely with several meter partners, including Itron and Cellnet+Hunt to deliver ZigBee Smart Energy certified meter products.
System Integrators
Tendril is in conversation with major firms to fully support the integration of an energy management system within any utilities company.
If you are interested in becoming a Tendril partner, please call 303-951-4360 or email sales@tendrilinc.com.
