Consert is partnered with some of the leading companies that offer solutions for energy management.
Through these alliances Consert aims to deliver the most comprehensive, reliable, secure and scalable solution.
Hometown Connections is a utility services subsidiary of the American Public Power Association (APPA). APPA is the service organization for the nation's more than 2,000 community- and state-owned electric utilities that serve more than 45 million Americans.
Hometown Connections makes products and services directly available in every part of the country through its direct sales staff and alliances with 18 public power joint action agencies, state associations and individual utilities. Public power organizations affiliated with Hometown Connections promote The Consert Solution to APPA members within their state or region.
A leading supplier of energy solutions to wholesale and retail electric and natural gas customers, Constellation Energy will enable participating utilities to trade the aggregate energy saved through the Consert solution back to the electric grid, establishing a new viable revenue stream.
Focusing on building the next-generation power grid, leading meter manufacturer GE and Consert will facilitate product integration opportunities on various Consert hardware including its wireless communicating gateway and load control devices. Together, Consert and GE also are working to create a platform for launching an electric vehicle infrastructure solution as well as to secure participation in ISO ancillary services markets.
A leader in the development of next-generation mobile technologies, Qualcomm will work with Consert to integrate its chipset offerings in various hardware devices to enhance solution capabilities and streamline device design.
Consert’s reference backhaul solution is Verizon Wireless’ 3G wireless network which will be upgraded to 4G as it is deployed. Verizon Wireless’ 3G wireless network provides the best combination of bandwidth, coverage, encryption, reliability and cost of any network available today. Employing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, Verizon Wireless scrambles voice and data information, encrypts signaling messages and authenticates devices to its network to hinder unauthorized users from capturing and deciphering wireless messages.