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 Radio Thermostat Company of America produces next generation home area network products such as thermostats, in-home displays, and repeater devices specifically for energy management and home automation applications. We combine an expertise in wireless communications with the large scale manufacturing and distribution support of our sister company, Golden Power Manufacturing.
Golden Power has been manufacturing thermostats for nearly 20 years with tens of millions of units deployed to date.  Golden Power’s thermostats are available through various means including retail, wholesale, and direct from the factory.

Radio Thermostat Company has developed a platform of communicating thermostats levering the U-SNAP protocol that will support virtually any type of communication required by the system integrator.  Our thermostats are easily adaptable in industrial design, software and hardware to give our customers a unique look and feel.

In addition to design and technical support for integrators, we also have a U.S.A. based call center that is open to take calls from consumers 365 days a year.  The call center is staffed by highly trained technical people who do not read from scripts.  In addition to answering tough questions regarding thermostats they are also capable of answering questions about mesh networks and AMI technology.

Sensus is a time-tested technology and communications company providing data collection and metering solutions for water, gas and electric utilities around the world. Sensus is a transforming force for the utilities of tomorrow through its ability to help customers optimize resources, as well as to meet conservation and customer service objectives. Sensus customers rely on the Company for expert, reliable service in order to meet challenges and exceed goals. For more information, visit www.sensus.com.

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Formed in 1993, Aztech Associates Inc. is a leading provider of residential in-home displays for energy conservation and demand management.  Designed to save money for both consumers and utilities, Aztech’s portable and attractive In-Home Display (www.aztechmeter.com) is capable of communicating directly with an ever-increasing number of smart meters.  Combining the novel use of light patterns and graphical displays, homeowners can view their electricity usage and cost at a glance to better manage their utility consumption.  This empowers families to choose the best time to run energy-guzzling appliances, thus saving money and helping to protect the environment.




Comverge, with over 3,300 megawatts of clean energy capacity under management, is a leading provider of clean energy solutions that improve grid reliability and supply electric capacity on a more cost effective basis than conventional alternatives by reducing base load and peak load energy consumption. For more information, visit www.comverge.com. PowerPortal is a registered trademark of Comverge, Inc.

e-Radio, USA, Inc. (ERU) provides a complete smart-grid communications solution to utility companies and their customers.   The company designs and manufactures receiver modules that are inserted into a variety of smart grid devices and operates wireless communications networks.  Its technology is based on the RDS subcarrier frequencies of FM radio stations and is consistent with global standards established approximately 25 years ago.  ERU is currently supporting multiple utility company pilot programs and has successfully integrated its receiver technology into a variety of smart grid devices including the next generation of smart appliances.   For additional information, please contact Rick Boland, CEO rboland@e-radioinc.com.


EnTek is a leading supplier of state of the art Demand Response solutions for Utility DR, Home Automation and the OEM markets. With over 30 years of experience in the design of Demand Response solutions, EnTek produces highly reliable RDS radio, ZigBee, VHF and other professionally designed devices targeted for Pool Pumps, HVAC and Water Heating applications. EnTek supports the latest in control and in data collection technologies including adaptive controls and sub-metering for the devices under control. For additional information please visit  www.entekllc.com.


GainSpan Corporation, a spinoff of Intel Corporation, is a leader in ultra low power Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions. GainSpan provides the industry's lowest power consuming Wi-Fi single chip solution for battery-powered or energy-harvesting sensor devices and other embedded systems.  Devices using GainSpan’s solution can run for up to 10 years on a single AA battery. GainSpan enables its customers to leverage the large installed base of Wi-Fi access points and devices and create new products for building automation, smart home energy, health monitoring, and real time location system (RTLS) applications, while reducing the overall operation and installation costs of sensor networks.


GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliances, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and ecomaginationSM, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE), imagination at work, sells products under the Monogram®, Profile™, GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater™, Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Entellisys®, Tetra®, Vio™ and Immersion® commercial brands. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day.  Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.google.com.


Gridglo is the premier aggregator of commoditized AMI and complementary energy data for end-user segmentation, communication and energy usage prediction and recommendation. Our platform aggregates various sources of AMI data with end-user behavioral data and provides a single point of access for developers and service providers.  The solution includes end-user energy data management tools via algorithms and scoring matrixes while complying with the most rigorous privacy framework in the industry, thus protecting the end-user’s identity and information.



INSTEON is the best-selling, award-winning, most reliable home area networking (HAN) technology. INSTEON was developed by SmartLabs Technology, a division of SmartLabs, Inc. For 18 years, SmartLabs has brought innovative, cost-effective products to the marketplace. SmartLabs owns SmartLabs Design who has long been a leader in the HAN space and now offers a wider selection of HAN products than any competitor. SmartLabs also owns the world's largest, award-winning home control retail website: Smarthome.com.



Our goal is to provide customers with an easy-to-use, low-risk, cost effective solution to enable monitoring and control of their internet connected devices. Intwine's primary focus is the relevance of our solution in delivering customer value versus being enamored with the enabling technology. To us, technology is simply the plumbing. The benefits our solution delivers to OEM customers are 1) improved brand loyalty due to a positive end user experience  2) providing actionable information to product engineering and marketing research teams by gaining visibility into usage patterns and 3) strengthened relationships with market channel partners by providing a fleet management platform to increase sales of consumables. To consumers, the value of the Intwine user experience is peace of mind knowing their Intwine Connected Home results in enhanced safety, health, energy efficiency, money savings, and fun!



Itron Inc. is a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries. Our company is the world’s leading provider of intelligent metering, data collection and utility software solutions, with nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on our technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Our products include electricity, gas, water and heat meters, data collection and communication systems, including automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); meter data management and related software applications; as well as project management, installation, and consulting services.



LS Research provides a complete range of design services to get your wireless product into production. LS Research’s development teams consist of experienced engineers with a broad range of skill sets to handle a wide range of product applications. The project scope can range from turnkey, specific design service support, integration, or product testing and certification. LS Research has extensive experience in the Utility and Smart Energy industry which includes our FCC/CE certified ModFlex RF modules (Zigbee, WiFI, 900 MHz 802.15.4, etc.) and Smart Energy In Home Displays and Gateways.



Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.



NURI Telecom, founded in 1992 with its Corporate Headquarter in Seoul, Korea is a leading provider of utility IT and end-to-end Smart Grid infrastructure solutions and have global operations in California USA and Tokyo Japan. Nuri’s smart metering solution, entitled “AiMiR” provides the network communication devices over the LAN and WAN infrastructure and head end server software and enables utilities to route energy and water more efficiently, allowing two-way, real time information exchange with their customers. Around half-million meters of electric, gas and water utility companies were deployed with Nuri’s AMI Solution for smart metering throughout Asia and Europe.


Sigma Designs is a leading provider of system-on-chip "SoC" solutions used to deliver entertainment and control throughout the home. Sigma offers both highly integrated SoC solutions as well as stand-alone chips that include the following functions:
  • Media Processing
  • Wired and Wireless Networking
  • Video Processing
  • Home Control
These chipsets are supported with board-level reference designs, sophisticated system software, and technical documentation to form a complete solution for a variety of set-top boxes, consumer electronics, AV network devices, home control systems, and selected commercial systems.



Steffes Corporation has over 20 years of experience manufacturing innovative and grid-friendly Electric Thermal Storage (ETS) space heating systems for residential, commercial, and industrial applications.  Our 2100-series, Comfort Plus, and ThermElect systems have helped over 200 utilities shift loads off-peak while reducing heating costs for tens of thousands of home and business owners.  Building on this success, the next generation of Steffes products is poised to help utilities fully integrate renewable generation and increase grid reliability by providing fast-ramping distributed energy storage while providing consumers with efficient, low-cost space and water heat.  For more information, visit www.steffes.com/offpeak.




SyChip, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Murata Manufacturing Co, Ltd. SyChip was established in 2000 as a spin-off venture company of the famed Bell Laboratories. The company was acquired by Murata in April 2006. SyChip is focused on integrating various wireless connectivity technologies based on WiFi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee to create wireless system solutions for the Smart Energy and Home Automation market.



Teridian Semiconductor Corp. designs and manufactures system-on-chip integrated circuits for the energy measurement, control and communication market. Our products are used in electricity meters, as well as enterprise and consumer based solutions such as servers, power distribution units, and outlet monitoring devices to measure power dissipation with high accuracy, and enable communication processing of recorded energy data.

We have been designing system-on-chip solutions specifically for the energy measurement marketplace for over 20 years, and have created five generations of products that is enabling the global trend of increasing energy efficiency through the introduction of smart energy grid networks.




Trilliant provides wireless Smart Grid communications solutions to utilities that improve energy efficiency and integration of renewable resources. Trilliant’s unique multi-tier mesh architecture provides a secure, private, standard IP network between the utility’s back office and any grid device, such as electric and gas meters, consumer devices including in-home displays, thermostats, and load controls, and grid assets such as substations, capacitor banks, distributed generation, and electric vehicles. Trilliant leverages its leadership position in the formation and use of industry standards to make products that provide cost-effective end-to-end Smart Grid networks with 100% coverage across the entire utility service territory. Trilliant actively partners with a wide array of industry leading companies to provide unmatched performance, reliability, and price in a complete, open, interoperable, and standards-based end-to-end solution. Trilliant’s technology is the most proven in the industry, with the largest single Smart Grid deployment in North America (over 1 million endpoints) and over 500 total customers in 50 countries.


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4Home is the leading provider of “home control services,” which include energy management, home security and monitoring, media and entertainment management, and home health.  4Home’s ControlPoint,™ Portal Server, and SDK software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage — from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust application server for the NOC providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4Home, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4Home and its award-winning solutions, please visit www.4Home.com.


Alliant Energy is an energy-services provider with subsidiaries serving approximately 1 million electric and over 400,000 natural gas customers. Providing its customers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin with regulated electric and natural gas service is the company’s primary focus.

For more than 100 years, Alliant Energy and our predecessor companies have kept homes warm, lights burning and factories running across the upper Midwest. We have nearly 5,000 employees, operating revenues of $3.68 billion (year-end 2008), and total assets of more than $8.2 billion (year-end 2008).  Our service territory covers 54,000 square miles in the heartland of America and includes 37,000 miles of electric distribution lines and 9,000 miles of natural gas main. We maintain a strong fleet of fossil fuel and renewable generating facilities across the upper Midwest, generating more than 31 million megawatt hours of electricity each year.
 
Interstate Power and Light, the company's utility subsidiary, serves approximately 530,000 electric and 235,000 natural gas customers in Iowa and Minnesota.  Wisconsin Power and Light is the Wisconsin utility subsidiary of Alliant Energy which provides electricity to almost 450,000 customers and natural gas to more than 175,000 customers. Alliant Energy, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, is a Fortune 1000 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNT. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.alliantenergy.com.


  American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the   United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers  in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation’s largest generators of
  electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in   the U.S. AEP also owns the nation’s largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission  systems combined. AEP’s transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP’s utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP’s headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.


Public Utility District No. 1 of Benton County, Washington (the District) is a municipal corporation of the State of Washington established in 1934 for the purpose of engaging in the purchase, generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. Additionally, the District is authorized under state law to provide wholesale telecommunication services. The District’s properties include 37 substations, approximately 90 miles of 115kV transmission line, and 1,573 miles of distribution lines.



BuLogics, Inc. is a leading developer of innovative energy monitoring and control technology.  We design simple, wireless technology that allow homeowners and businesses to control and monitor their home or office energy consumption. Our products are low in cost, highest in engineering quality, and provide a simple user interface so that the technology can be easily adopted.  We began developing products in 2003 and have been repeatedly recognized and recommended as the world leaders in Z-Wave product development.  BuLogics received the distinction of being only one of two test houses in the world to certify Z-Wave products for interoperability and quality in 2008.

Celestica is dedicated to delivering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions to drive our customers’ success. Through our simplified global operations network and information technology platform, we are solid partners who deliver informed, flexible solutions that enable our customers to succeed in the markets they serve. Committed to providing a truly differentiated customer experience, our agile and adaptive employees share a proud history of demonstrated expertise and creativity that provides our customers with the ability to overcome any challenge. For further information on Celestica, visit its website at www.celestica.com.

Cleco Corp., a power company based in central Louisiana, provides power to approximately 276,000 customers throughout the state. It runs two main businesses, Cleco Power LLC, a regulated electric utility business and Cleco Midstream Resources LLC, a wholesale energy business.

Cleco originated in 1934 and built its foundation on customer service, an emphasis on reliability and a dedicated group of employees – now totaling more than 1,300.

The company currently owns approximately 1,352 megawatts of regulated generating capacity and manages an additional 691 megawatts for partners through Cleco Power. In addition, Cleco has almost 1,355 megawatts of unregulated capacity in operation through Cleco Midstream Resources.

To help Cleco deliver reliable, reasonably-priced electricity to customers, the company uses a diverse fuel mix of lignite, western coal, natural gas, oil and purchased power. In the near future, Cleco will open Rodemacher Unit 3, which will burn the coal byproduct, petcoke, and which will have the capability to burn biomass fuels.

Cleco is constantly working to improve the future, always investigating new technology and striving to forge ahead in a way that benefits customers.




Compucon is a full-service contract engineering and manufacturing company specializing in microprocessor-based controls.  Smarter by design and built to last, Compucon controls are in use today in
thousands of products around the world. Applications range from highly sophisticated scientific instruments to decision management networks for incredibly harsh environments. 

Direct Energy is one of North America’s largest energy and energy-related services providers with over 5 million residential and commercial customer relationships. Direct Energy provides customers with choice and support in managing their energy costs through a portfolio of innovative load control and energy efficiency products and services. A subsidiary of Centrica plc (LSE: CNA), one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies, Direct Energy operates in 20 states plus DC and 10 provinces in Canada.  To learn more about Direct Energy’s load control services, please contact Derek Matthews, Derek.matthews@directenergy.com


Negawatts are referred to the as the 5th Fuel, as energy savings offers the fastest and most cost effective solution to solving many of the issues regarding the supply and demand sides of electricity.  Negawatt Inc., established in 2008, is a design and marketing group managed by a unique collaboration of veterans from the enterprise software, telecommunication, powerline communication, wireless networking, and utility industries. Currently the company's focus is in the development of patented and patent-pending applications dealing with energy savings.  Present product announcements include a ZigBee Wireless to HomePlug PLC Bridge, offering both bridging hard-to-reach wireless areas by extending wireless' range using powerline transport, and also tunneling data by off-loading the wireless data onto PLC for better performance of ZigBee throughput.  This unique technique creates a Hybrid HAN, being both wireless and wireline, and affords the only current solution for reliable 100% total home coverage.  Under development are other clever use-case models of patented technology which can revolutionize NAN communication by bridging into HAN endpoints. Headquartered in California, new and clever solutions are being developed by Negawatt Inc. to address this ever changing market.

Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro Inc. is a progressive community-owned electricity distributor serving 8000 customers in the heart of Canada's wine country, just down river from Niagara Falls.  In response to a mandate by the Ontario provincial government, Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro is currently installing smart meters and building a smart grid to accomodate the expected influx of local renewable energy generators and future electric cars.  For more information on our company, please visit our website at www.notlhydro.com.



People Power Company is building the next generation of energy efficiency monitoring and control solutions that maximizes value for homes, buildings, appliances and devices.  People Power is disrupting the market with its new Open Source Home Area Network (OSHAN; pronounced like “ocean”) featuring a new wireless communications protocol that has extreme range and low power consumption, while also supporting WiFi and ZigBee network protocols.  Leading with its open source “SmartGrid for All” philosophy, People Power is inspiring innovation and enabling Smart Grid interoperability by empowering developers everywhere to address exciting new market opportunities for Smart Grid applications and beyond.

Our Home Spaces provides embedded software and webware technologies to enable energy use metrics and control at its point of use. Our tool kit is designed to rapidly adapt the U-SNAP module to different attached appliances, allowing integrators to significantly reduce development times and time to market.   The WiFi U-SNAP WebServer is designed for simplicity to allow clients to be written easily in any programming language or directly accessed by a standard browser. Our Our Home Spaces' goal is to aid the State of California in meeting their objective of cutting the energy consumption of 13,000,000 homes in California by 50 percent by 2020 by providing embeddable energy awareness technologies to appliance manufacturers. For more information on Our Home Spaces, please visit www.ourhomespaces.com.



Portland General Electric, headquartered in Portland, Ore., is a fully integrated electric utility that serves approximately 817,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Oregon.