Honeywell Partners with Encycle, Hawaii Reaps the Benefits

Encycle and Honeywell Smart Energy have announced that they have joined forces to ensure that the details of OpenADR 2.0b implementations are production-ready for their customers, especially in Hawaii.

“The Honeywell and Encycle development teams worked collaboratively through the details to seamlessly integrate our OpenADR 2.0b systems,” said Yvette Maskrey, District Manager, Smart Energy, Honeywell. “This will ensure ease of participation for Hawaiian Electric's customers in demand response programs, and allows other Honeywell utility clients using this standard the flexibility to connect to additional distributed energy resources.”

The key new feature of the OpenADR 2.0b standard is the ability for facilities to provide live telemetry data to utilities. This helps utilities better manage their demand response activities, requesting the minimal load shed from customers, thereby avoiding demand response fatigue. Meanwhile, this additional knowledge will likely help avoid future downtimes and outages for customers.

“Collaboration between key technology providers such as Honeywell and Encycle helps utilities and consumers adopt the 2.0b standard, knowing that the systems have been tested thoroughly,” said Barry Haaser, Managing Director, OpenADR Alliance. “This will benefit not only Hawaiian Electric, but ultimately, utilities and consumers across the globe.”

“The OpenADR 2.0b collaboration between our development teams represents a major milestone for Encycle, where we worked closely with Honeywell's Smart Energy group to benefit the industry at large,” said Mark Kerbel, CTO and co-founder, Encycle. “This enhances our relationship with Honeywell as we team up on other efforts, including integration with their Total Connect Comfort Ecosystem for our upcoming SwarmStat platform.”

Partnerships are likely going to be the lifeblood of the IoT, and the Industrial IoT (IIoT), as an industry which is too complex for any one company to really expect to own the full stack of. At least not effectively or well.