PowerWatch and Blue Line Innovations Announce Strategic Partnership

Two leaders in Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) and real-time energy monitoring – PowerWatch and Blue Line Innovations – today announced a product and technical integration agreement. This new partnership will combine the benefits of Blue Line’s meter agnostic sensor and PowerWatch’s communication agnostic Home Energy Management System. According to Pike Research, the worldwide HEMS market is expected to reach $2 billion by 2020.

No matter the meter or AMI — PowerWatch and Blue Line have a way to work with any utility or customer utilizing a modular communication interface (MCI) specification developed by the USNAP Alliance and EPRI. This specification enables any product to connect to any type of demand response system, such as AMI, SEP, Open ADR and/or home or building network utilizing ZigBee, WI-FI, Z-Wave, ClimateTalk, LonWorks, HomePlug, etc.

This energy user interface is also available on Web-connected computers and smart phones. The energy gateway also controls appliances in the home, either directly to the appliance or via a “load control module” that sits in front of the appliance cutting power to it when desired by the consumer, either automated or manually, or via occasional “demand response” calls from the utility when the grid is stressed. The PowerWatch/Blue Line package does all of this wirelessly, without ever requiring the utility to “roll the trucks.”