Have you ever hear about Green Button? Henceforth Fujitsu Laboratories brings new technologies.

If the access to the energy represents a real stake for everyone, this is also true that, the ability to use this energy efficiently, remains the way forward.

For those who unfamiliar, Connectikpeople recalls that, Green Button, is a ‘White House inspired idea to give all Americans access to their own energy usage information, by enabling both privacy control by utility customers and data integrity verification by service providers’. Green Button is supported by industry and government; it allows users to download their electricity usage data from utilities to manage their energy usage and also share this data with third-party service providers offering new online

application tools and innovative services.

In this dynamic, Fujitsu Laboratories of America announced that it has developed new technology that enhances Green Button. This means that, using  this new technologies developed by Fujitsu, service providers that receive Green Button data from utility customers can verify if the data provided has been tampered with or forged.

According to Fujitsu, this will lead to broad adoption of customer-centric energy usage data management and support demand response (DR) aggregation service providers (also called DR aggregators) who calculate an incentive to be paid to each customer based on fair assessment of the performance using the provided usage data.

Regarding privacy, According to Fujitsu, it is important for customers to have the flexibility to control the amount of data that is disclosed when interacting with service providers. For example, in case of DR aggregation service, a customer can minimize the privacy concern by only showing data corresponding to the DR event period while hiding other data which can keep sensitive information, such as lifestyles, invisible to the DR aggregator.