Cisco’s energy management party continues, with the networking giant offering new tools for utilities to help manage home and building energy consumption. 

 

The center of its home energy management solution is a countertop display that gives consumers insight into peripheral devices such as thermostats, intelligent sockets and smart appliances. 

 

The controller has an LCD screen and can coordinate Wi-Fi or ZigBee-based home networks to monitor and manage energy consumption. It will be available in North America beginning this summer, Cisco announced this week. 

 

The networking and IP firm is also offering hosted energy management solution to help electricity companies manage the huge data load from home-based systems and to integrate it into their existing back-ends. 

 

Separately, it has released another solution for enterprises to manage buildings over an IP network.

 

The network building mediator manager “provides practical tools to reduce overall energy consumption and system downtime, and offers proactive system alerts for preventive maintenance of critical equipment,” Cisco said.