RICHARDSON, TX — (Marketwired) — 11/06/13 — and today announced that the companies have extended their partnership to enhance the capabilities of their product offerings. As a result, Telco, Cable, Wireless, and other service providers can quickly and easily add Tendril–s solutions to their repertoire of smart home applications and services for energy monitoring, management and device control.
As part of this partnership, integration of new product features are now available to help service providers that are deploying home energy management applications and services to significantly improve the efficiency of activating customers.
One specific feature, enhanced subscriber provisioning, has been added to ease the provisioning process for service providers who are launching new home service offerings, including energy management. Enhanced subscriber provisioning allows for seamless integration between the service providers– Operational Systems, Hitachi SuperJ® Applications Ecosystem, and Tendril solutions.
In addition, consumers can now interact with multiple home services with secure authentication ensuring an improved, but secure navigational experience. Integration with the Hitachi SuperJ® Applications Ecosystem allows enhanced access through secure single sign-on.
“Hitachi is excited to expand our partnership with Tendril, the leader in delivering consumer engagement energy management applications and services,” said David Foote, Hitachi CTA Chief Technology Officer. “As service provides rollout new energy management solutions, the ease of operation and user experience becomes critical imperatives for successful service implementation.”
“For service providers, the ability to engage customers in new ways, particularly around energy management, is an important new competitive advantage,” said Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck. “In working with the team at Hitachi, we have found a true partner to help move our vision forward and provide easy and innovative ways to improve engagement between service providers and consumers, without the use of costly special-purpose gateways and other hardware devices.”
Tendril enables utilities to drive customer engagement via a rich and tailored experience for the home energy consumer. Tendril clients rely on the company–s customizable software solutions to engage consumers to meet efficiency goals and improve customer satisfaction. Tendril–s solutions are built on an open, cloud-based, secure, and scalable platform that seamlessly supports numerous other applications. For more visit .
The Hitachi SuperJ® Applications Ecosystem, developed in collaboration with Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., is a software platform that allows embedded systems developers, applications developers, equipment manufacturers, service providers and a wide array of related constituencies to develop, deploy, optimize and manage services and applications in a dynamic cloud-to-user environment based on Java and the OSGi service platform. SuperJ provides enhancements that promote maximum operational efficiency and lifecycle management, along with a software development kit (SDK) and other tools that prepare the target software for deployment on servers, embedded systems, home gateways, and M2M devices used in multiple industries.
Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., develops, manufactures and markets solutions for communications service providers and enterprises in the Americas. The company offers high-speed optical networking equipment for long haul, metro and data center applications, software platforms for subscriber “connected home” and “machine-to-machine” (M2M) applications deployment and management, and products and technologies for wireless network operators, including 4G evolved packet core and small cell solutions. For more information about Hitachi Communication Technologies America, please visit .
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company–s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others.
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