Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) has recognized Tridium Inc., a provider of open platforms, application software frameworks, automation infrastructure technology, energy management, and device-to-enterprise integration solutions, with the 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement. Tridium was recognized with the award based on an analysis conducted by Frost & Sullivan on the integrated building systems and services market. The 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement has been awarded to Tridium for the proven success of its product platform and its ability to provide value enhancements to its customers.

The highly flexible integration platforms from Tridium enable simultaneous and collaborative working of built environments. By leveraging the Niagara and Sedona platforms, the company has successfully built its suite of interoperability and machine-to-machine as well as machine-to-mobile, and mobile-to-machine communication solutions.

In a release, Frost & Sullivan Industry Manager Konkana Khaund, said, "Tridium's Niagara and Sedona platforms capitalize on energy savings and cost effectiveness, while offering a tailored package solution with unique features that yield measurable returns. Tridium provides customers with the technology to operate on a single, unified platform and the tools to easily integrate data, improve efficiency, and save on costs."

Tridium's solutions enable aggregation of building devices and systems data in a central monitoring station. Additionally, the company's solutions deliver remote, real-time capabilities as well as easy data access via the Internet so interoperability and integration between the different building infrastructures can enhance performance and bring down operational costs.

The Niagara and Sedona solutions leverage the capabilities of M2M interconnection so users can easily access information and receive alerts on critical situations. The solutions also offer users with increased control to provision variables over dispersed machine assets via a computer or personal digital assistant device. Furthermore, users can optimize the flexibility of Tridium's IP-based enterprise for the development and improvement of products which enhance business value.

The 2011 North American Frost & Sullivan award is presented to an enterprise which has proven its ability to deploy strategies which create and add value for its customers which specific focus on increasing ROI on its services or products.