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Implement direct load control and demand-response system through a single-source supplier, which also supports 3rd party smart energy devices.

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Access electricity consumption, temporal and appliance-specific information to better understand consumer behavior and to provide better modeling of energy demand profiles across neighborhoods, zip codes and municipalities.

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Deliver a secure and reliable connection into the home area network.

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Allow consumers to see and react to price adjustments to lower their own consumption manually/voluntarily.

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Gain greater stability and reliability of the electricity grid during times of extreme instability.

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Sell excess and/or reduced energy at profitable rates.

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Maintain a tighter, more frequent interactive relationship with your customer base.

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Offer services to assist consumers with home area networking issues.

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Advertise to consumers to promote more energy efficient appliances or programs

Tendril’s EMS is comprised of the following major components:

Software:

• EMS Server and applications

• Tendril Thermostat
• Tendril Outlet
• Tendril Display
• Tendril Access USB
• Tendril Gateway

The Tendril Energy Management System (EMS) provides utilities with operational efficiency by shaping load and allowing companies to meet and exceed government regulatory requirements. With Tendril’s turnkey EMS, utilities have more ways to touch the consumer through unique programs that reduce churn and improve the customer experience.

Tendril’s EMS is the first product with an open architecture to provide a seamless integration to any ZigBee Smart Energy certified product for the home. It can extend and scale to support millions of networks from a single network operations center (NOC). Plus its full, open API can integrate with existing back office enterprise systems, including meter management and billing systems as well as load monitoring and security applications. And with its device agnostic approach, utility companies and their customers can expand to other types of trusted wireless devices as other wireless technologies gain market acceptance.

The system includes an enterprise wireless sensor and control network platform, ZigBee-enabled consumer end devices such as smart thermostats, smart outlets, smart in-home displays, an IP-ZigBee Gateway, a network management suite of tools for ZigBee network remote monitoring and diagnostics, a consumer energy management portal, a utility back-office integration portal and other infrastructure components to provide a secure and reliable connection into the Home Area Network (HAN).

In addition, Tendril offers services to customize and integrate back-office applications to the Energy Management System for any utility company and their customers. Its Consumer Energy Portal is designed with a brandable skin to make energy management easy for consumers to learn and use, thus lowering the barriers to adoption.