NES Smart Grid Partners
Our Smart Grid Partners provide NES-based products, services, and solutions to utilities. These innovations ensure a vibrant market for NES-based solutions for their smart grid needs. NES Smart Grid Partners form an ecosystem of support for the NES System, offering utilities program management, software integration services, software applications, maintenance and management solutions, smart grid extensions, in-home or in-building applications, and more. This ecosystem works with Echelon to provide the world's most advanced system solution for today's smart grid/smart metering needs.
Types of Smart Grid Partners
VAR Strategic Partners
NES VAR Partners typically respond to utility tenders as the prime. They supply utilities with everything from program management to software integration services to installation/maintenance, and they're the primary channel for the NES System.
- Strategic long-term partners enjoy maximum rights and flexibility.
- VARs are encouraged to create their own distinctive NES-based products and market them under their own brand, using the NES brand as a sub-brand.
- VARs may distribute NES-based systems and services to utilities without additional approval from Echelon.
- No territory restrictions.
Meter Technology Licensing Partners
- Strategic long-term partners focused on manufacturing.
Development Partners
Hardware and software developers that extend the features and benefits of the smart grid.
- MEP Partners. Extend the capabilities of the IEC meter.
- WAN Card Partners. Supply the WAN infrastructure for ANSI meter deployments.
- Software Partners. Develop enterprise- or meter infrastructure-related applications for the NES System Software.
Complementary Offering Partners
- Long-term partners interested in developing a joint solution for the smart grid marketplace.