Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Announcing the 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Awards Winners

Announced By TMCnet News

Norwalk, CT (November 21, 2011) — SmartGrid.TMCnet.com, the leading website dedicated to the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness Smart Grids, today announced winners of its 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Awards. SmartGrid.TMCnet.com is sponsored by TMC, an integrated, global media company helping clients in print, in person and online, and Crossfire Media, an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology.

The Smart Grid Excellence Awards has recognized outstanding innovation across all facets of smart grid. The common theme for all our winners was having a distinct focus on enabling smart grid deployments for utilities.

“The solutions that have been recognized with the Smart Grid Excellence Award reflect the diverse range of innovation driving this market. Congratulations to these eight companies which best exemplified the best of smart grid technologies in 2011," said stated Carl Ford, co-founder and community developer, Crossfire.

“I am pleased to acknowledge the companies that contributed to the advancement of Smart Grid technologies by bestowing our Second Annual Smart Grid Excellence Award to them,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC (News - Alert).  “Congratulations and I look forward to more innovation in 2012.”

For more than 25 years, TMC has been honoring technology companies with awards in various categories. These awards are regarded as some of the most prestigious and respected awards in the communications and technology sector worldwide. Winners represent prominent players in the market who consistently demonstrate the advancement of technologies. Each recipient is a verifiable leader in the marketplace.

Winners will be published on SmartGrid.TMCnet.com and included in its e-newsletter.

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

2011 Smart Grid Excellence Winners

Company
Product

Cinterion, a Gemalto Company
Cinterion EU3 Wireless Module

Cognizant Technology Solutions
SMMP

Cyber Switching, Inc.
ePower Single Phase Rack Mount PDU

FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
FGR2-PE Industrial Grade 900 MHz Long Range Data Radio

iControl Networks
iControl OpenHome Software Platform

nlyte Software
nlyte 6.0

Silver Spring Networks
CustomerIQ Web Portal

Trilliant
The Trilliant Smarter Energy Solutions



About Smart Grid

Smart Grid is the leading website dedicated to the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness Smart Grids, with particular emphasis on applications, products and software for improving residential, business, institutional and facilities’ power consumption.

This Website offers information and analysis for anyone interested in researching, purchasing and applying smart grid technologies. It includes Smart Grid industry news and expert analysis byCarl Ford, Crossfire Media. Visitors will find free resources including Online Communities, blogs, feature articles, videos and more. SmartGrid.TMCnet.com is sponsored by TMC, an integrated, global media company helping clients in print, in person and online, and Crossfire Media, an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology. Please visit http://smart-grid.tmcnet.com

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.  In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4GWE; Smart Grid Summit; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Summit; Social CRM Expo; SIP Tutorial; VIPeering; Business Video Expo; CVx; Digium (News - Alert)|Asterisk World; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more!  Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Crossfire Media:

Crossfire Media is an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology. We service communities of interest with conferences, tradeshows, webinars and newsletters. Crossfire Media services also include providing insight to technology companies and associations to assist in the development of business and technical strategy as well as the development and implementation of effective communications and marketing strategy. To implement communications and marketing strategies, Crossfire Media utilizes a variety of physical and virtual experiences including web, publications, face to face events, and webinars.Crossfire Media has a partnership with Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) to produce events and websites related to disruptive technologies. Crossfire Media is a division of Crossfire Consulting, a full service Information Technology company based in New York.