GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market, which includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. The GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly-secure and scalable, allowing utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers.

Job description:

Overview & Job purpose:
This position acts as a focal point for managing all customer expectations. Specifically, they manage customer engineering development activities, problems, questions and concerns. They coordinate these activities with other internal teams to provide timely and accurate information. This position requires an attention to detail, good listening, understanding, and people skills.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
Manage and monitor the project plan to ensure successful completion of the plan activities and delivery of the project on schedule.
Create complete project overview documents internally and with the customer.
Work with the customer to create high level requirements and use cases.
All milestone targets are detailed, managed, met and executed to mutual satisfaction.
Prepare the various achievement reports to be distributed on an agreed timeframe.
Liaise with EU, US and SG teams as required.
Manage and drive local QA processes per project to ensure all deliverables are achieved.
Implement and manage processes and procedures covering configuration management, including Risk & Issues Management, Documentation Management and Product Assurance.
Manage all post installation deployments and track success and failures.
Liaise and attend meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business and organizational development.
Personal profile – Program/Project Manager & Customer facing roles

Personality: Self-driven, detail oriented, technical (ability to learn and understand new technologies easily), customer facing, problem solver with a positive outlook, and a “can do” attitude. A natural forward planner who critically assesses partners’ needs and performance. Mature, credible, and comfortable in dealing with senior blue chip executives. Reliable, tolerant, and determined.

Personal Situation: Able to work extended hours on occasions when required.

Specific Job Skills: Has a deep technical knowledge in TCP/IP networking and just as important are well structured and capable to create bigger projects plans and ensure execution. Experience with testing and customer supporting functions. Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Office package, Mac OS, iPhone and Android Platforms. Have the ability to create and review technical documentation that relates to project management and process. Have between 10 to 15 years of experience with a focus on the technical side.

Preferred certifications:
- Prince2
- PMP
- PMI
- IPMA

Desired Skills & Experience

Business and Communication Skills: Must be an excellent face-to-face and telephone communicator. Able to demonstrate success and experience managing major account’s customers and large projects. Ideal background would be in project management or a consultative engineering role; experience from utilities and/or service provider industry would be particularly helpful.
The ideal candidate will also have the following, and in no particular order:

Enthusiasm
Detail Oriented
Ability to learn new technologies quickly
Technical
Passion
Energy
Commitment to excellence
Commitment to success
Sense of Humor
The ability to motivate his/her team
Self-motivation
Excellent communication skills
Good negotiation skills
Honesty
Openness
Approachability
Empathy

You are welcome to list a few people as a character reference.
Company Description

GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market which includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. The GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly-secure and scalable, allowing utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers.

Published: March 20, 2013 (to read original article, Click here.)

People sometimes have trouble making small sacrifices now that will reward them handsomely later. How often do we ignore the advice to make a few diet and exercise changes to live a longer, healthier life? Or to put some money aside to grow into a nest egg? Intellectually, we get it — but instant gratification is a powerful force.

You don’t have to be one of those self-defeating rubes. Start buying LED light bulbs.

You’ve probably seen LED flashlights, the LED “flash” on phone cameras and LED indicator lights on electronics. But LED bulbs, for use in the lamps and light sockets of your home, have been slow to arrive, mainly because of their high price: their electronics and heat-management features have made them much, much more expensive than other kinds of bulbs.

That’s a pity, because LED bulbs are a gigantic improvement over incandescent bulbs and even the compact fluorescents, or CFLs, that the world spent several years telling us to buy.

LEDs last about 25 times as long as incandescents and three times as long as CFLs; we’re talking maybe 25,000 hours of light. Install one today, and you may not own your house, or even live, long enough to see it burn out. (Actually, LED bulbs generally don’t burn out at all; they just get dimmer.)

You know how hot incandescent bulbs become. That’s because they convert only 5 to 10 percent of your electricity into light; they waste the rest as heat. LED bulbs are far more efficient. They convert 60 percent of their electricity into light, so they consume far less electricity. You pay less, you pollute less.

But wait, there’s more: LED bulbs also turn on to full brightness instantly. They’re dimmable. The light color is wonderful; you can choose whiter or warmer bulbs. They’re rugged, too. It’s hard to break an LED bulb, but if the worst should come to pass, a special coating prevents flying shards.

Yet despite all of these advantages, few people install LED lights. They never get farther than: “$30 for a light bulb? That’s nuts!” Never mind that they will save about $200 in replacement bulbs and electricity over 25 years. (More, if your electric company offers LED-lighting rebates.)

Surely there’s some price, though, where that math isn’t so off-putting. What if each bulb were only $15? Or $10?

Well, guess what? We’re there. LED bulbs now cost less than $10.

Nor is that the only recent LED breakthrough. The light from an LED bulb doesn’t have to be white. Several companies make bulbs that can be any color you want.

I tried out a whole Times Square’s worth of LED bulbs and kits from six manufacturers. May these capsule reviews shed some light on the latest in home illumination.

3M ADVANCED LED BULBS On most LED bulbs, heat-dissipating fins adorn the stem. (The glass of an LED bulb never gets hot, but the circuitry does. And the cooler the bulb, the better its efficiency.) As a result, light shines out only from the top of the bulb.

But the 3M bulbs’ fins are low enough that you get lovely, omnidirectional light.

These are weird-looking, though, with a strange reflective material in the glass and odd slots on top. You won’t care about aesthetics if the bulb is hidden in a lamp, but $25 each is unnecessarily expensive; read on.

CREE LED BULBS Cree’s new home LED bulbs, available at Home Depot, start at $10 apiece, or $57 for a six-pack. That’s about as cheap as they come.

The $10 bulb provides light equivalent to that from a 40-watt incandescent. Cree’s 60-watt equivalent is $14 for “daylight” light, $13 for warmer light.

The great thing about these bulbs is that they look almost exactly like incandescent bulbs. Cree says that its bulbs are extraordinarily efficient; its “60-watt” daylight bulb consumes only nine watts of juice (compared with 13 watts on the 3M, for example). As a result, this bulb runs cooler, so its heat sink can be much smaller and nicer looking.

TORCHSTAR These color-changeable light bulbs (available on Amazon) range from $10 for a tracklight-style spotlight to $23 for a more omnidirectional bulb. Each comes with a flat, plastic remote control that can be used to dim the lights, turn them on and off, or change their color (the remote has 15 color buttons). You can also make them pulse, flash or strobe, which is totally annoying.

The TorchStars never get totally white — only a feeble blue — and they’re not very bright. But you get the point: LED bulbs can do more than just turn on and be white.

PHILIPS HUE For $200, you get a box with three flat-top bulbs and a round plastic transmitter, which plugs into your network router. At that point, you can control both the brightness and colors of these lights using an iPhone or Android phone app, either in your home or from across the Internet, manually or on a schedule.

It offers icons for predefined combinations like Sunset (all three bulbs are orange) and Deep Sea (each bulb is a different underwaterish color). You can also create your own color schemes — by choosing a photo whose tones you want reproduced. You can dim any bulb, or turn them all off at once from your phone. (Additional bulbs, up to 500, are $60 each.)

Philips gets credit for doing something fresh with LED technology; the white color is pure and bright; and it’s a blast to show them off for visitors. Still, alas, the novelty wears off fairly quickly.

INSTEON This kit ($130 for the transmitter, $30 for each 60-watt-equivalent bulb) is a lot like Philips’s, except that there’s no color-changing; you just use the phone app to control the white lights, individually or en masse. Impressively, each bulb consumes only 8 watts. You can expand the system up to 1,000 bulbs, if you’re insane.

Unfortunately, the prerelease version I tested was a disaster. Setup was a headache. You had to sign up for an account. The instructions referred to buttons that didn’t exist. You had to “pair” each bulb with the transmitter individually. Once paired, the bulbs frequently fell off the network entirely. Bleah.

GREENWAVE SOLUTION This control-your-LED-lights kit doesn’t change colors, but you get four bulbs, not three, in the $200 kit. You get both a network transmitter and a remote control that requires neither network nor smartphone. Up to 500 bulbs (a reasonable $20 each) can respond. Setting up remote control over the Internet is easy.

The app is elegant and powerful. It has presets like Home, Away and Night, which turns off all lights in the house with one tap. You can also program your own schedules, light-bulb groups and dimming levels.

Unfortunately, these are only “40-watt” bulbs. Worse, each has a weird cap on its dome; in other words, light comes out only in a band around the equator of each bulb. They’re not omnidirectional.

The bottom line: Choose the Cree bulbs for their superior design and low price, Philips Hue to startle houseguests, or the GreenWave system for remote control of all the lights in your house.

By setting new brightness-per-watt standards that the 135-year-old incandescent technology can’t meet, the federal government has already effectively banned incandescent bulbs. And good riddance to CFL bulbs, with those ridiculous curlicue tubes and dangerous chemicals inside.

LED bulbs last decades, save electricity, don’t shatter, don’t burn you, save hundreds of dollars, and now offer plummeting prices and blossoming features. What’s not to like? You’d have to be a pretty dim bulb not to realize that LED light is the future.

As my colleague Andrea Chang reported in Tuesday’s Times, microprocessors and connectivity have been migrating into a growing number of product categories. That trend has been developing for years, but it really took off as residential broadband connections proliferated, as did home Wi-Fi networks.

Published: January 8, 2013 (to read original article, Click here.)

For some products, the benefits of connectivity are obvious. Smart refrigerators, for example, can suggest recipes based on the food they’re chilling and create shopping lists for items that are depleted. As networking technology spreads to more mundane items, though, the appeal isn’t necessarily as apparent.

For instance, why put a communications chip in a light bulb?

That’s what GreenWave Reality of Irvine has done. The reason, said chief executive Greg Memo, is ”having the light quality you want when you want it.”

FULL COVERAGE: CES 2013

GreenWave’s technology lets consumers set up networks of lights in their homes that can be precisely controlled through a smartphone or tablet app. The capabilities include turning all the lights in the network off at the touch of a (virtual) button, having different arrays of bulbs illuminated automatically at different times of day, and individually dimming each bulb in the network to vary the lighting within a room.

The bulbs use a low-power version of ”personal area networking” technology — sort of a short-distance Wi-Fi — that requires no special sockets, switches or wiring, unlike some competing approaches to ”smart” lighting. To adjust the lights wirelessly through the GreenWave app, however, owners have to plug a special gateway into their home Wi-Fi router.

CES has been awash in home-automation products for years, as companies scramble to apply digital technologies to a largely analog collection of home controls. GreenWave is a good example of the burgeoning amount of incremental, do-it-yourself upgrades that provide the building blocks for a digitally enhanced home.

Memo left networking giant Cisco in 2009 to create GreenWave, aiming to apply the benefits of connectivity to more household items. ”The analogy I give,” he said, ”is that everything in your life is getting smart, except your home.”
GreenWave started with energy management products, focusing on residential markets but working primarily with deregulated utilities in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Those utilities can be more avid proponents of energy conservation than their regulated counterparts on these shores. The company announced its foray into connected lighting in October; Memo said he expects its products to be in U.S. stores in the first quarter of the year.

A package of four LED bulbs, a gateway and a remote control will sell for around $200, with each additional bulb priced around $20, Memo said. Each bulb uses about $15 worth of electricity less than a comparable incandescent light each year, he said, and they’re expected to last more than 20 years.

The company touts the bulbs as an early example of the ”Internet of things,” an emerging network of chip- and sensor-equipped devices that communicate with one another to improve performance or deliver services. That’s too abstract to be a sales pitch, so Memo puts it another way: Connected lighting offers a better experience at lower cost than the conventional version.

GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market, which includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. The GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly-secure and scalable, allowing utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers.

Job description:

The Danish development team has the main responsibility for the central home controller in GreenWave ecosystem. The team works in a very agile environment where all contribute to solve tasks in the middleware framework software stack. You will work together with the rest of the team to architect, specify, implement and test new features.

The team is looking to expand competences in the IP networking area and is looking for a SW architect/technical lead with documented experience in areas like: IPv4/IPv6, secure networking, routing UPnP, DNLA and open source. As architect/technical lead we expect you to drive architectural work internally as well as working closely with peers from other departments ensuring a solid and efficiently working architecture where component responsibilities are designed and architected in an optimal way.

The team in Denmark works closely together with other development teams in Holland, Singapore, China and USA. The foreign teams have responsibility for other part of the system such as hardware, UI and backend.

Qualifications:

You have a relevant engineering degree in software or electronics and you have worked at least 5 years with C ++ Application / Middleware software development.

The following requirements are a must:

• Documented SW architect/technical lead experience
• Expert in C++ programming and Software design
• Linux programming experience
• Test driven development
• Fluent spoken and written English

Experience with the following requirements are advantageous:

• Internet protocols and building blocs
• IP networking
• Home monitoring
• Agile methods
• Wireless protocols, especially “Low Power Wifi” like Zigbee, ZWave and 6LoWPAN
• Test driven development

Personal profile:

You are passionate about software development. You work structured with quality in mind. You have strong analytical skills and find it easy to familiarize your self with new technologies. You are able to work both in project teams and as an individual. You are a good team player and you are able to find the best solutions together with the rest of the organization.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a fast growing, dynamic and informal company with focus on innovation and development
• Professional and ambitious colleagues
• An attractive salary package negotiated individually according to qualifications
• Start up environment with global presence
• Run by successful serial entrepreneurs

How to apply:

Send us an English written request via the link below. Application deadline is 17 May 2013. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously.

GreenWave Reality, Bregnerødvej 96, 3460 Birkerød, Phone 69132333

If you would like to know more please feel free to contact Peter Vestergaard, VP, Embedded development at peter.vestergaard@greenwavereality.com.

GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market, which includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. The GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly-secure and scalable, allowing utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers.

Job description:

The Danish development team has the main responsibility for the central home controller in GreenWave ecosystem. The team works in a very agile environment where all contribute to solve tasks in the middleware framework software stack. You will work together with the rest of the team to architect, specify, implement and test new features.

The team is looking to expand in both the Smart Home Services but also in the IP networking domains and is looking for Senior Software developers to strengthening the team.

As Senior Software Developer we expect you to be able to quickly analyze complex specifications and develop efficient high performance software in close corporation with our Software architects/technical leads. You will be working closely with peers throughout the organization ensuring a solid and efficiently working solution.

The team in Denmark works closely together with other development teams in Holland, Singapore, China and USA. The foreign teams have responsibility for other part of the system such as hardware, UI and backend.

Qualifications:

You have a relevant engineering degree in software or electronics and you have worked at least 5 years with C ++ Application / Middleware software development.

The following requirements are a must:

• Expert in C++ programming and Software design
• Linux programming experience
• Fluent spoken and written English

Experience with the following requirements are advantageous:

• Internet protocols and building blocs
• IP networking
• Home monitoring
• Agile methods
• Wireless protocols, especially “Low Power Wifi” like Zigbee, ZWave and 6LoWPAN
• Test driven development

Personal profile:

You are passionate about software development. You work structured with quality in mind. You have strong analytical skills and find it easy to familiarize your self with new technologies. You are able to work both in project teams and as an individual. You are a good team player and you are able to find the best solutions together with the rest of the organization.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a fast growing, dynamic and informal company with focus on innovation and development
• Professional and ambitious colleagues
• An attractive salary package negotiated individually according to qualifications
• Start up environment with global presence
• Run by successful serial entrepreneurs

How to apply:

Send us an English written request via the link below. Application deadline is 17 May 2013. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously.

GreenWave Reality, Bregnerødvej 96, 3460 Birkerød, Phone 69132333

If you would like to know more please feel free to contact Peter Vestergaard, VP, Embedded development at peter.vestergaard@greenwavereality.com.

Mr. Hounshell will be the EVP of Technology and be charted to drive the overall company architecture for the innovative GreenWave Reality smart home software platform and overall solution. Previously as the general manager at Motorola Mobility, Mr. Hounshell was brought in to lead Motorola’s efforts in the connected home space to deliver multiple products and services into the service provider, utility and retail channels. Before being acquired by Motorola, Mr. Hounshell was co-founder, President and CEO of 4Home, Inc., where he also served as Chairman on its Board of Directors. Under his leadership, 4Home became a bellwether company for the emerging Connected Home Services sector landing deals with major service providers. Prior to 4Home, Leon was VP of Engineering and co-founder of PRISMIQ, Inc. where he led the hardware and software engineering teams that developed the world’s first Digital Media Adapter (DMA). Earlier, Mr. Hounshell was the director of software engineering and senior architect for Polycom’s Network Access Products.

Mr. Eberlein will serve as the Chief Revenue officer and be responsible for global sales and business development utilizing his experience in the software and software as a service (SaaS) industry. Most recently, Mr. Eberlein served as the CEO and Chairman of GridIron Software, Inc. who provided online cloud-based file sharing and tracking solutions. Prior to that role, Mr. Eberlein was CEO of Nero AG, a global leader in multimedia solutions for PC, consumer electronics and mobile markets. During his nine year tenure at Nero, he played a key role in the company’s consistent year-over-year growth and in the creation of the cloud-based Liquid Media solution enabling anytime content creation. Before joining Nero, Mr. Eberlein was responsible for key accounts and business development in Asia for a leading worldwide logistics company.

“Both Leon and Udo bring a tremendous amount of relevant experience and leadership skills that will further accelerate our growth at GreenWave Reality,” said Greg Memo, CEO, GreenWave Reality. “Leon’s industry knowledge and strong architectural vision, paired with Udo’s business and sales acumen will allow us to enhance our industry leading smart home solution and better serve our global customers.”

GreenWave Reality Smart Home solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The company was recently named the top late stage Smart Grid/IT organization for 2012 by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association. GreenWave Reality has also announced an award-winning Connected Lighting Solution which extends the power of the platform and enables consumers to control their efficient lighting, all without requiring any rewiring of the home. At the recent 2013 CES show, the GreenWave Reality Connected Lighting Solution won the Best of Innovations award in the Integrated Home Systems Category and an Innovations Honoree award in Tech for a Better World. The GreenWave Reality platform is extensible to provide additional services such as home monitoring as well as an advanced smart meter management solution.

To learn more about GreenWave Reality, visit www.GreenWaveReality.com.

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About GreenWave Reality
GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market that includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. The award-winning GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience, making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. Recent awards include the CES 2013 Best of Innovations award winner and being named the top late stage Smart Grid/IT company for 2012 by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly secure and scalable, allowing leading utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers. GreenWave Reality’s funding is led by Craton Equity Partners, a Los Angeles-based cleantech fund, and has also received support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). GreenWave Reality has offices worldwide including Irvine, Copenhagen, and Singapore. Additional information can be found by visiting www.greenwavereality.com.

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