Energy
The shape of energy in the future is uncertain - but it will be different than today. In the meantime, staying agile, innovative, and smart is critical.
The delivery of energy is being reevaluated from end-to-end, driven by changing regulations, customer demands, and competitive pressures. This affects how back-end systems are built and run, as well as how services and products are used and delivered.
Home Energy Management
Helping people make their homes (and all the products and appliances they contain) smarter about energy usage is vital for utilities and makers of products that draw electricity. Smart meters are being rolled out to help consumers be more aware of their usage, however these are not proving to be the silver bullet many had hoped. Far more extensive technology integration, sensor deployment, and connectivity between products, home and utility provider are required.
Bringing Smart Meter Intelligence into the Home
The Aricent Group worked with a leading maker of chipsets on an advanced home energy management system that integrated with existing smart meters and smart grid infrastructure, and provided real-time energy usage feedback to the homeowner. Download Report
Smart Grid
Improving the efficiency, robustness, and flexibility of the electrical grid is a key component of shifting to more renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. Utilities, cities, and municipalities are all investigating ways to kick-start this mammoth effort.
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative
The Aricent Group collaborated with the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative on ways to help the public be more aware of the need for energy reduction, and of the benefits of supporting a shift to smart grid infrastructure.
Capabilities
Customer Insights
Understanding emerging and latent energy needs, and translating these into actionable design, technology, and strategy recommendations. This goes beyond consumers to also consider utility workers and other stakeholders.
Behavior Change & Customer Engagement
Combining customer insights with methods for meangingfully conveying impacts of energy usage (e.g. clear visualization of usage and pricing) allows effective beneficial behavior changes. It makes it easier for customers to become more engaged with their energy usage and, therefore also with utilities and manufacturers.
Smart Meters & Smart Homes
Smart meters are just the start: the information they provide needs to be properly contextualized for consumers to be useful for behavior change, and combined with a myriad of other integrated systems and sensors in the homes and externally.
Electric Vehicles
We have worked with many of the leaders in bringing electric vehicles to the mainstream, from automotive OEMs to charger manufacturers.