Centrica is a multinational energy and services company developing innovative solutions, offers, and products. Its brands such as British Gas, Direct Energy, and Bord Gáis Energy are all supported by around 15,000 engineers and technicians. The company aims to deliver high levels of customer service, engagement, and loyalty. It also delivers long-term shareholder value through returns and growth. The company focuses on distributed energy & power, connected home, energy supply, energy marketing & trading, exploration & production, and services. They supply energy and services to over 25 million customer accounts mainly in the UK, Ireland and North America.

Hitachi is a highly diversified company that operates eleven business segments: Information & Telecommunication Systems, Social Infrastructure, High Functional Materials & Components, Financial Services, Power Systems, Electronic Systems & Equipment, Automotive Systems, Railway & Urban Systems, Digital Media & Consumer Products, Construction Machinery and Other Components & Systems. Year founded: 1910 Revenue: $94.0 billion (2014) TYO: 6501

Our energy insights solutions Visualise your energy with real-time data to holistically manage your consumption, reduce spend, and improve operational efficiency. Improve your business performance and drive your energy strategy forward through actionable, real-time energy intelligence from your devices and integrated utility meters. Effectively and holistically manage consumption, reduce power waste, improve operational efficiency, lower energy costs, prevent costly downtime, and create a comprehensive energy strategy.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects accessed through the Internet—essentially a "Connected Everything Platform." These objects contain embedded technology to interact with internal states or the external environment. When objects can sense and communicate, it changes how and where decisions are made, and who makes them. ​IoT is connecting new places—such as manufacturing floors, energy grids, healthcare facilities, and transportation systems—to the Internet. When an object can represent itself digitally, it can be controlled from anywhere. This connectivity means more data, gathered from more places, with more ways to: increase efficiency, innovate in product development, increase asset utilization, enhance the customer experience, streamline the supply chain, and improve safety and security. Hitachi Consulting helps apply IoT solutions to drive business value, ultimately allowing companies to be IoT innovators and become an "Enterprise of Things." Companies can learn more about Hitachi Consulting's products, solutions and expertise and how they leverage the diverse product portfolio of Hitachi to help enterprises quickly get value out of IoT capabilities.

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