The Tendril Gateway enables remote communication with any ZigBee device across the home, such as dials, outlets, in-home displays, Web-based portals and electricity meters.

Tendril Gateway is a ZigBee-enabled IP gateway that communicates with any ZigBee device(s) within a household, including dials, outlets, PCs running Consumer Portals or electricity meters, to send and receive all available energy management related data. That data includes current price and consumption data from a ZigBee-enabled electricity meter; current state(s) of controlled or registered ZigBee devices; regular consumption information for historical cataloging; and commissioning, registration and diagnostics messages. Tendril Gateway effectively enables remote, non-AMI-network access to the ZigBee Home Area Network (HAN) and meter price, and/or consumption data through a broadband, wireless or other IP-based connection.

• External LED to indicate successful network activity
• Standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for connection to homeowner’s available broadband router
• Remote access to all ZigBee devices in the network for commissioning, diagnostic and information purposes