ONZO Partners with Ubisense to Bring the Power of Location Intelligence to Utility Customer Analytics

LONDON and DENVER, February 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Adding "Where" Component Brings New Insights Into Customer Energy Consumption and Better Customer Engagement Results 

ONZO and Ubisense have partnered to combine the data analytics functionality of ONZO's utility customer insight and engagement platform with the location intelligence capabilities of the Ubisense platform. Through this combination, utilities now have much greater and more easily understood intelligence about where and how their customers are using energy. Armed with this intelligence, customer service, marketing, planning, T&D operations and other key business functions can achieve significant benefits.

ONZO now embeds Ubisense as part of its overall solution and integrates a live map-based operating view of the utility network along with insights from ONZO's smart meter and sensor analytics, customer behavior analytics and load disaggregation analytics. For the first time, utilities can combine location with highly personalized utility analytics to quickly pinpoint and map relationships among consumption profiles and thereby uncover important new business operations insights. A few examples include locating pockets of abnormally high energy usage, identifying contributing factors for poor demand response program retention, pinpointing customers most likely to achieve the highest demand response results and spatially identifying areas with high solar or EV penetration.

Customers and their energy usage can now be geographically visualized at any desired level of granularity, from individual household, to feeder to entire service area. This allows utilities to see not only load locations, but also to map ONZO analytics-derived insights such as where solar panels are installed, locations of high consumers of air conditioning, customers with high discretionary peak time load, where usage anomalies exist and any other energy usage characteristics.

"The possibilities are endless for this new capability in location-enabled customer analytics," said ONZO CEO Spencer Rigler. "Situational awareness is improved, problems are diagnosed more quickly, decision-making is more reliable and search time across multiple data sources is reduced. In addition, market demand analysis is improved, along with associated target marketing."

About ONZO  

ONZO is a global leader in consumer energy data and analytics. ONZO combines the science of energy analytics with disaggregation, lifestyle behavior analysis and probabilistic forecasting to give utilities and their customers unprecedented insights into how, where and when energy is used. Leveraging granular smart meter data, ONZO's patented algorithms result in richer, highly accurate, customer-specific insights with actionable outcomes that help utilities improve customer engagement and energy efficiency, while reducing churn and creating new revenue opportunities. Visit ONZO.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Ubisense 

Ubisense (AIM: UBI), a global leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, helps manufacturing, communications and utility companies improve operational efficiency and boost profitability. Ubisense location intelligence systems bring clarity to complexity, enabling customers to revolutionize their operational effectiveness in a measurable way. Founded in 2002, Ubisense is headquartered in Cambridge, England, with operations in North America, France, Germany, and Japan. For more information visit: http://www.ubisense.net.