CSide has entered into a partnership with Icotera, a Danish-based company in Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) gateways, enabling Icotera’s customers to offer advanced smart home solutions to their subscribers.
Through this strategic partnership, Icotera brings their customers – service providers in the telecommunication and energy sector – the possibility to make a step forward, towards a world with sustainable and more efficient homes, integrating advanced smart grid technologies with the installed base of broadband infrastructure.
Several hundreds of thousands of FTTH broadband customers in Europe use Icotera Gateways to benefit from advanced FTTH broadband infrastructure. Following the growing demand from service providers and network operators, Icotera is now seeking to offer new products to their customers, which includes the deployment of a range of innovative market-driven Smart Home value propositions and business models.
Bundling advanced energy management services, heating automation and Smart Home services, Icotera now offers a complete range of value added services covering four key areas:
- Advanced Energy Management Tools;
- Home Automation Services;
- Security & Video Surveillance;
- Next Step Broadband Tools.
CSide CEO, Francisco Gonçalves, commented: “The strategic partnership with Icotera will help telecommunication and utility companies engage with their users in a unique and powerful way together with increasing their service portfolio. Bundling advanced optical fiber infrastructure with cloud-based technologies enables innovative broadband and energy management services to be offered to customers, increasing their comfort and safety.”
Icotera CCO, Danny van der Poel added: “The Smart Home platform is a fantastic add-on service to our high-quality Fiber-to-the-Home gateways. Our gateways are centered around bringing fast and reliable internet connections to end-users through our customers’ superior fiber-network infrastructure to give end-users a great internet experience. The partnership with CSide enables us to improve this experience even further by offering a great Smart Home platform through our gateways, to deliver fantastic opportunities for additional revenue streams for our customers and excellent Smart Home services to their subscribers”.