Cisco’s Home energy management Strategy
August 23, 2011
Cisco is making great progress in leveraging Internet Protocol (IP)-based technology to enable the transformation of the global energy industry. Through pilots, industry partnerships, acquisitions, and hiring key leaders from the energy industry, they have gained insights and are contributing innovative architectures and solutions to their customers.
After several customer pilots, Cisco is refining their strategy so they can effectively apply their experience and expertise in IP-based communications to the electric, gas and water networks globally. Cisco will enable interoperability through their core networking products and solutions as part of their integrated architecture within the broader smart grid effort.
Home energy management will be a focus for Cisco. They will create premise energy management devices as well as using the network as the platform for supporting innovative applications and architectures that will improve customers’ value proposition in the consumer energy management market.
