Onzo

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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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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