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GRIDATA LAUNCHES SITEALERT™ MONITORING AND ANALYTICS FOR
MISSION CRITICAL EQUIPMENT IN DISTRIBUTED SITES

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., September 6, 2011 — Gridata (http://www.gridata.com) today launched SiteAlert™, a next generation monitoring and analytics solution that collects vast amounts of data from multiple business locations, and sifts through it automatically to detect emerging problems long before they cause a crisis and lead to massive losses. SiteAlert protects perishable inventory highly sensitive to changes in temperature, humidity, and lighting, by monitoring mission-critical equipment such as commercial refrigerators and HVAC systems, and detecting conditions that are precursors to equipment problems.

According to Michael Leppitsch, CEO at Gridata, “We’re seeing great traction in cloud-based tools that put critical information into the hands of managers in real-time, enabling better, proactive decision-making. With the overall business intelligence software market expected to reach $10.5 billion this year, we see tremendous opportunity for our targeted solutions, and are optimistic about SiteAlert’s potential.”

The thresholds within which most commercial equipment must operate are tight. Every day presents risks that threaten business continuity. SiteAlert not only looks for crossing of thresholds and boundaries, but also mines past data to compare current performance against typical values. As soon as key indicators are reached and possible problems are detected, the system creates invaluable alerts, so managers can avert millions of dollars of losses, missed revenue, and lost customers.

SiteAlert is being piloted by regional grocery chain, New Leaf Community Markets located in the greater Bay Area of California — a regional specialty grocery chain focused on organic and natural foods, offering fresh organic fruits, vegetables, meat and seafood, frozen foods and pre-made meals. The diversity of store locations and configurations serve as the perfect testing ground for monitoring temperatures, energy usage, and other important measures. The data streams are automatically watched by software to detect threshold conditions, identify precursor conditions to equipment failures, and trigger alerts for facilities managers and equipment service contract providers.

According to Scott Roseman, Founder and Co-owner of New Leaf Community Markets, “Inventory in our stores at risk to equipment and service interruptions is worth millions. Our approach to managing risk to perishable inventory and the health of our community follows industry best practice, given the technology that has been available so far. Gridata’s next-generation technology promises to raise the quality of our offering, reduce costs and losses, and prevent costly crises through proactive activity.”

The SiteAlert system includes temperature sensors, energy sensors, and refrigeration monitoring devices to assemble a comprehensive operational picture of the store equipment in real time. The information is available to operations managers, giving them the ability to set alerts and review historical data. In the background the system performs statistical analyses to identify potential problems with the equipment, enabling preventive inspection and maintenance before the stores experience a crisis.

About Gridata
Gridata™ provides business intelligence solutions for sensor networks, giving regional and national businesses a secure and innovative monitoring and analytics platform. Gridata was founded in 2009 and brings extensive experience in the energy, software, analytics, standards and sensors’ industries. Its flagship product, SiteAlert™, was created to put timely, actionable information about equipment and businesses right onto the Smartphone and desktop of operations managers, where it matters most. Headquartered in Santa Cruz, Calif., Gridata has a decade of OEM software, analytics and utility experience integrated across its platform offering.

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GRIDATA LAUNCHES ENERGY INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM™,
POWERING NEXT-GENERATION CONSUMER ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Open, Smart Grid Standards-Based Platform Speeds Time to Market for OEMs Looking to Add Energy Management Capabilities to Any Consumer Device

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., June 6, 2011 — Gridata (http://www.gridata.com) today launched the company’s Energy Intelligence Platform, an embedded home area network (HAN) software solution designed for appliance & consumer electronics manufacturers looking to easily add energy management capabilities to any product.   Gridata’s Energy Intelligence Platform™ allows appliance & connected-device makers to deliver products with an intuitive, integrated awareness about energy use that allow consumers to make informed decisions regarding their every-day energy consumption.

 “The Gridata Energy Intelligence Platform has been refined through rigorous market research and over two years of co-development with major customers in the Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) market,” Said Michael Leppitsch, CEO and Founder of Gridata.  “Our energy management solutions guarantee interoperability among the rapidly evolving list of communication protocols and industry standards being used by our OEM partners. Designed for energy-minded consumer electronics OEMs, Gridata’s platform facilitates the intelligent connections required in the home and business, and addresses utility and consumer needs together in a single solution.” 

“Gridata actively participates in a variety of standards organizations to help ensure product and system-level interoperability,” said Barry Haaser, managing director of the OpenADR Alliance http://www.openadr.org and President of Lakeview Consulting Group, LLC.  ”Gridata’s extensive knowledge of communications protocols, devices, utility requirements puts the company in an ideal position to support the needs of OEMs who select the Gridata platform.”

Solutions powered by Gridata’s Energy Intelligence Platform will be delivered via smart-phones, smart-thermostats, tablets, laptops, desktops, set-top boxes, and various in-home displays.  Gridata’s platform also supports cloud-based consumer & enterprise services where consumers can quickly grasp the impact of their energy usage. By applying securely held private information such as identity, preferences, and past decisions, as well as environmental information such as location, weather, and time of day, the platform produces highly personalized, informed, and actionable content, paired with responsive and intuitive interfaces on which decisions are immediately captured and implemented.

“We see tremendous opportunity for growth as energy smart technology investment was up 27% to $24 billion in 2010 — a category that includes smart grid, electric vehicles, energy management and energy storage,” said CEO Michael Leppitsch. “As adoption rises, the sophistication of requirements will exceed the capabilities of current point solutions. Smart appliance makers and leading consumer electronics  companies will turn to specialized suppliers like Gridata to provide the integration platform for their intelligent components.”

About Gridata

Gridata delivers a heterogeneous Home Area Network (HAN) energy intelligence platform that controls diverse device networks and manages their information across multiple protocols.  Gridata provides smart-appliance and consumer electronics manufacturers with customizable software modules designed to reduce the time and cost of creating energy management products.  OEMs can easily integrate Gridata’s embedded software as the home energy management “controller” inside any smart appliance, router, thermostat, in-home-display, tablet or PC.   Headquartered in Santa Cruz, Calif., Gridata has almost a decade of OEM software and utility experience integrated across its platform offering.

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