Consumer Engagement – Delivering Real Consumer
Value to the Smart Grid
GroundedPower’s strength in web-based applications, content management and mobile & wireless communications are the foundation for its creation of a smart grid “engagement layer”. This intuitive software platform rests on top of the smart grid ecosystem and delivers consumers the energy management environment that engages, motivates and empowers them to become active and willing participants in energy efficiency.
GroundedPower’s “engagement layer” creates the missing link between consumer’s and the value the smart grid can provide. The GroundedPower Interactive Customer Engagement System – iCES, integrates real-time information from other areas of the smart grid ecosystem and delivers them in a simple and actionable way.
The information delivered to consumers provides the attributes required to establish a baseline and energy use profiles, set goals, analyze status and trends in real-time, create configurable comparative analyses, commit to efficiency action steps and sustain them, obtain online consultation, continuous reinforcement and support, social networking, access utility efficiency programs and rebates, acquire efficiency products, use performance management tools and gain rewards. All of these functions are set up on a very convenient and easy to use management dashboard that is highly configurable.
GroundedPower’s iCES system fits well into smart grid initiatives, as well as existing energy efficiency and demand response programs. GroundedPower extends existing energy efficiency programs by providing a platform that combines real-time energy monitoring with an integrated suite of intuitive, engaging and actionable behavioral tools to save energy with a communications system that connects consumers and their utility like never before.
GroundedPower delivers its own real-time monitoring and Home Area Networking (HAN) solutions as well as supporting 3rd Party offerings, which provide the required energy information to the iCES platform.supports any underlying smart grid infrastructure components including its own Home Area Networking (HAN) solutions or 3rd Party’s to provide real-time energy monitoring and wireless communications.
