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TMCNet: 4Home and Sensus Partner on Home Area Network and Demand Response

[January 08, 2009]

4Home and Sensus Partner on Home Area Network and Demand Response

LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)--

4Home, the leader in home control services, and Sensus Metering Systems, a worldwide leader in smart metering and AMI/AMR, announced today a strategic partnership to create Home Area Networking (HAN) and Demand Response (DR) solutions for utilities. Sensus is licensing 4Home's "Best of CES Innovations 2009" award-winning technology, 4Home Energy, to create market-leading solutions for its utility customers.


"We are excited to be working with Sensus as they lay the foundation for the Smart Grid," said Leon Hounshell, CEO of 4Home. "And we're looking forward to seeing our software enable compelling conservation solutions for utilities through the ever-growing Sensus utility customer base. The Sensus FlexNet Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) technology is being adopted by numerous utilities in North America, and HAN-DR is the next step in these rollouts."

"4Home's proven control platform is standards-based, reliable, scalable, easy to use and perfectly suited to support our extensive roadmap for utility Smart Grid solutions," said Jon Rappaport, HAN-DR Product Manager of Sensus. "The unrivaled flexibility and usability of the 4Home system, combined with Sensus' market-leading tower-based AMI infrastructure, will enable our utility partners to deliver simple yet powerful energy management and conservation programs for their customers."

Demonstrations of the 4Home Energy are available at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) January 8th through the 11th by private appointment. Details of the Sensus HAN-DR solution, utilizing the 4Home platform, will be announced at the DistribuTECH exhibition and conference in San Diego on February 3, 2009.

About FlexNet

FlexNet is the utility industry's most powerful AMI solution that provides customers with the technology to achieve unmatched results in range, redundancy, resiliency, recovery and reliability. Only FlexNet has primary-use, FCC licensed spectrum, supplying uncluttered transmissions for water, gas and electric utilities in both rural and urban areas, regardless of terrain. FlexNet fits seamlessly into a utility's operational and customer service strategic plan, enabling communication with a complete range of endpoint devices. FlexNet technology reduces cost, mitigates technology risk, enables pricing flexibility and demand response, and improves operation and maintenance efficiency for forward-thinking utilities. The Sensus FlexNet solution helps utilities improve their customers experience, reduce their carbon footprint and protect their capital investment.

About Sensus Metering Systems

The Sensus Metering Systems companies are leading world-class providers of high-value metering, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system solutions for water, gas, electric and heat utilities; as well as sub-metering entities worldwide. Additional linked businesses include Smith-Blair, Inc. a leading provider of pipe clamp & coupling products for the water, gas and industrial markets; and Sensus Precision Die Casting, which produces complex, high quality die-castings. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.sensus.com.

About 4Home

4Home is the leading provider of "home control services," which include energy management, home security and monitoring, media and entertainment management, and home health. 4Home's ControlPoint,™ Portal Server, and SDK software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage — from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust application server for the NOC providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4Home, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4Home and its award-winning solutions, please visit www.4Home.com.

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