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Gartner names Lucid Design Group "Cool Vendor" in Sustainability, 2010
April 27, 2010
Oakland, CA - Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, names Lucid Design Group one of five "Cool Vendors" offering interesting solutions for managing the enterprise energy and carbon management areas, and the built environment. The report illustrates how Lucid's Building Dashboard® technology has set the standard for web-based resource use displays, building management integration and social networking around conservation.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative (enable users to do things they couldn't do before); Impactful (have, or will have, business impact -- not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing (have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months). Gartner identified Lucid as a valuable company for improving communication and usage visibility, and changing occupant behavior.
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About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
