wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources alertme news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message alertme.com type subsidiary industry home automation founded april 2006 founder pilgrim beart 1 headquarters cambridge united kingdom number of employees approx . 45 2010 parent independent 2006 2015 2 british gas trading limited 2015 present 3 website www.alertme.com alertme is a uk smart tech company that provides energy and home monitoring hardware and services . alertme produces hardware and software to enable users to monitor and control their home energy use . in 2015 the company was acquired by british gas trading limited 4 for 65 million . 5 in april 2016 the limited company was renamed to centrica connected home limited . 6 alertme uses non intrusive load monitoring to extrapolate trends from customer data which is then used to make energy saving recommendations . contents 1 hardware 2 software 3 partnerships 4 awards 5 see also 6 references 7 external links hardware edit the alertme platform is based on a home hub that connects to cloud servers provided by amazon web services via the home broadband router . the hub communicates via wireless to devices in the home both alertme devices and third party enabled devices . software edit the alertme platform is open and expandable to allow users to add new devices and applications to their personal dashboard or smartphone app . applications such as electricity monitoring smartenergy remote heating control smartheating and home monitoring smartmonitoring are the core applications but with the development of many new third party devices in the future the platform can adopt further applications such as lighting controls and automation locks and keypads as well as smart appliances when they become available . partnerships edit alertme has strategic partnerships with british gas in the uk and lowe s in the usa . 7 british gas is the largest domestic energy provider in the uk serving 10 million homes and 15.9 million energy accounts . lowe s is the second largest home improvement retailer in the world with 15 million consumers visiting its 1725 stores every week . awards edit alertme has won eight awards since 2009 for product innovation and business strategy including red herring europe 100 2012 8 smart metering uk & europe best in home display 2012 rosenblatt new energy award for best deal 2011 iet innovation award for software in design 2010 global cleantech 100 2009 & 2010 bloomberg new energy pioneer 2010 design week consumer product design 2009 see also edit home improvement portal kill a watt opower references edit quested tony 13 february 2015 . alertme sold to british gas for 100m . business weekly . retrieved 16 april 2016 . centrica connected home limited . companies house . companies house . retrieved 15 april 2016 . british gas to acquire technology company alertme to extend its leadership in innovating for customers . british gas . british gas . retrieved 15 april 2016 . cookson robert . british gas buys smart home tech company alertme . the financial times . retrieved 15 april 2016 . quested tony 13 february 2015 . alertme sold to british gas for 100m . business weekly . retrieved 16 april 2016 . centrica connected home limited . companies house . companies house . retrieved 15 april 2016 . quested tony 13 february 2015 . alertme sold to british gas for 100m . business weekly . retrieved 16 april 2016 . europe 2012 top 100 . red herring . red herring inc. retrieved 16 april 2016 . external links edit alertme.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alertme & oldid 740140666 categories electric powerhome automationhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from august 2010all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 08 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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