Essent Partners with AlertMe to Bring Smart Energy Services to Dutch Homes

's-hertogenbosch, The Netherlands And London (ots/PRNewswire) -

E-Insight for monitoring, remote control & advice on home
appliance efficiency

Cloud technology enables new and unique service from the
Netherlands' number one utility

Essent, the leading energy company in the Netherlands and
AlertMe, the pioneer in Smart Home technology, today announce their
partnership with the commercial launch of E-Insight, a new and unique
cloud-based 'Smart Energy' service. The service is launched today
with a high profile media campaign, called: 'What Costs Watt?' and is
now available to homes across the Netherlands.

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E-Insight provides customers with an AlertMe home hub, two smart
plugs and a personal login, enabling them to monitor and remotely
control any plug-in devices from anywhere via the internet or
Smartphone. It also gives the customer the ability to profile and
compare their own home appliances with new appliances in the market
by taking up-to-date independent data from across websites in the
Netherlands. E-Insight compares performance and calculates the
savings a customer could make by upgrading to a new more
energy-efficient model.

Essent, part of the multi-national RWE group and the leading
utility in the Netherlands with 2.4 million customers, chose to
partner with AlertMe because of the company's ability to provide an
integrated platform that will allow the utility to roll out a number
of modular Smart Energy services over the next two years.

Mary Turner, CEO of AlertMe says: "To be more efficient,
consumers need to have easy access to digestible information, help
and advice, and the ability to control services in their home.
Working with Essent we can help to deliver a choice of Smart Energy
services that will empower families to lower their energy bills,
remotely control home appliances and ultimately become more informed
and efficient."

Ivor Kusters, Program Manager Smart Energy at Essent, says:
"Customers expect easy to use services that show immediate relevance.
The AlertMe platform enables Essent to introduce smart services in a
modular way, so we can keep them simple. Essent develops Smart Energy
services that offer comfort, insight or control on how people use
their energy. With E-insight we enable our customers to determine
which appliances use too much energy.

About AlertMe

Visit AlertMe online at http://www.alertme.com

About Essent

More information is available at http://www.essent.eu

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