May 3, 2012: LonMark and OpenADR Alliance Agreement Is Expected to Facilitate Smart Grid Adoption
SAN JOSE, Calif. — LonMark International, a nonprofit association for the certification, education, and promotion of interoperability standards for control networking, and the OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption, and compliance of a smart grid standard known as Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR), announced that they are working together to enable interoperability between certified products that will better allow commercial buildings to manage their energy use on the smart grid.
According to the OpenADR Alliance, today more than one-third of U.S. commercial buildings have some form of energy management and control system installed, which makes them ideal candidates to participate in demand response programs using standard interfaces such as OpenADR.