NTT West Japan

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation (Head office: Osaka-shi, Osaka; President: Kazutoshi Murao, hereinafter, NTT West) and NTT Comware Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Shinobu Umino, hereinafter, NTT Comware) jointly promote the ICT-based energy management system, NTT Westfs Hikari BOX Plus*1 (HB-1000 "2"/information appliance) (hereinafter, Hikari BOX Plus) equipped with the home electric appliance controller functions*2 in conformity with ECHONET Lite standards*3. Along with this service, the companies have obtained the ECHONET Lite Application Certification (hereinafter, SMA Certification*4) for the application between smart energy meter*5 (hereinafter, smart meter) and HEMS controllers used for the communication between smart meters and Hikari BOX Plus (B Route*6).