The smart home market, or home automation market as it’s often called, is a broad definition. It spans all types of services to automate and make homes smarter. These services include, but are not limited to, home energy management, safety, home security & surveillance, home entertainment systems (TV, PVR, set-top boxes, sound systems etc.), white goods monitoring and automation.

Maingate’s focus in this market is home energy management, and to create infrastructure and services for the smart home, with energy as the starting point. Maingate Smart Home Solutions is Maingate’s offering for energy management in the smart home. It is the foundation of a smart home, giving the home owner the necessary tools to be in control of one of their greatest investments – their home. In order for us, as consumers, to change our behaviour of energy usage, a first step is to create awareness. We need to be able to follow and understand how our actions, and lack of actions, will impact our consumption of energy and thereby our carbon footprint. We need tools to support our change of behaviour. Therefore you, as a utility company, have an opportunity to provide your customers with the platform to enable this change of energy consumption. There are of course several reasons for doing this - customer loyalty, brand value, new service revenues - just to mention a few.

Maingate Smart Home Services is the platform for you to implement this change.