Dundalk company Climote win European Business Award

Derek Roddy founder and CEO of Climote

Local home technology company Cimote, described as the European competitor of Nest has been named as a National Champion in the European Business Awards 2014 / 2105, a major European award.

The European Business Award for the Dundalk headquartered company comes on the back of a recent major contract win with UK energy giant ScottishPower, after a global tender of home technology companies. Founded by Derek Roddy and Eamon Conway, Climote also has major partnerships with Electric Ireland and Power NI.

The European Business Awards now in its 8^th year engaged with over 24,000 business from 33 European countries this year and Irish technology company Climote have been named as National Champions; going through to the second phase of the competition.

According to Eamon Conway, Climote Managing Director “This is a great achievement for our growing team at climote and we are exceptionally proud to be able to represent Ireland as a National Champion at the European Business Awards. climote are already a multi-award winning company however this is the first time that we have been recognised on a pan-European basis.”

CEO Derek Roddy said “The Climote team continue to innovate with new and exciting products that are designed to revoluntionise how we use them. With the Climote HUB people are able to control their home heating from anywhere, via one click programme. The simplicity of this, added to the significant energy savings that homeowners can experience are the major factors behind our exceptional growth in all the markets that climote operate in.”

Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards said: “Congratulations to Climote, it is a great achievement to be named National Champion and we wish them luck in the next stage. The European Business Awards is going from strength to strength, inspiring businesses to greater success and helping to improve the competitive edge of companies across Europe.”

Local firm beats Google to €10m contract

The Climote hub

Local start-up Climote have beaten Google in a David and Goliath-style battle for a coveted €10m contract, according to a report in today’s Irish Independent.

The Dundalk smart metering company was chosen over Nest, the business bought by Google for $3.2bn (€2.4bn) earlier this year, and 25 other companies for a lucrative contract with energy company Scottish Power.

Industry giants Siemens and Honeywell Global also competed.

The deal will see Climote supply its technology to Scottish Power’s 5.6 million UK customers.

This will allow the customers to control their heating remotely from anywhere in the world.

Once Scottish Power has installed Climote’s device, customers can control their heating via an app for iPhone or Android. For those with older phones, it can be controlled using text messages or a web page.

The deal is valued at a minimum of €10m in the medium term though this will depend on how quickly Scottish Power rolls out the technology.

Climote has already teamed up with Electric Ireland in the Republic and Power NI in the North to roll out its technology on the island of Ireland.

Climote is the brainchild of ex-Honeywell Ireland boss Eamon Conway and connected homes innovator Derek Roddy.

It was created as a spin-off of home technology company Smarthomes, which counted former presidential candidate Sean Gallagher as a director.