Innovative Portable Device able to Communicate via Power Line Communication with Enel’s Smart Meters

ENEL is looking for a portable device that field operators could carry to connect and retrieve information in real time from a smart meter that is not physically accessible.

Application Deadline
December 18th, 2024
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How It Works

All proposers are invited to carefully read the challenge description and the Regulations of this challenge, attached below in the Attachments section, before submitting a solution. 

Please note that this Challenge is managed in collaboration with Leading Edge Only (hereinafter “LEO”), the Enel S.p.A’s challenge program partner. 

BY SUBMITTING A SOLUTION, PROPOSERS AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPT THE ATTACHED REGULATIONS, IN ADDITION TO THE TERMS OF USE OF THIS PLATFORM. 

Please explain your proposal clearly in English, attach documents (max 5 files, 35MB total size, ZIP, JPG, PDF format) if needed. 

ELIGIBILITY 

THE CHALLENGE IS RESERVED TO ALL THE LEGAL ENTITIES WHICH ARE NOT PART OF THE ENEL GROUP.  

The employees of Enel Grids and Enel S.p.A. who are involved in the organization and management of the Competition or admitted to the Open Innovability Portal back office, as well as their spouses or partners and their relatives up to the fourth degree, are not eligible for participation in this Challenge. 

The spouses, partners, and relatives up to the fourth degree of Enel Grids and Enel S.p.A.’s employees who are involved in the organization and management of the Challenge and of all the people admitted to the Open Innovability® Portal back office, are not eligible for participation in this Challenge.  

Furthermore, the spouses, partners and relatives up to the fourth degree of the employees of Enel Grids and Enel S.p.A. who have worked or currently work in the technical sector of network component design and standardization are not eligible for participation in this Challenge.  

Challenge, Award, IP rights, Deadlines

This is a call for Partners Challenge; the participants will need to submit a written proposal to be evaluated by the Challenge Owner with the goal of establishing a collaborative partnership. 

Moreover, Enel Green Power will award the best proposal with a prize of 10.000USD. 

This Challenge does not require Intellectual Property (IP) transfer. However, sometimes the Challenge Owner company requests that certain IP arrangements shall be made, should a partnership be formed. 

The Winning Solution will be rewarded with the possibility to negotiate a collaboration agreement with the Challenge Owner. 

The proposals will be admitted until DECEMBER 18th 2024 and the evaluation will start after this date. 

Late submissions will not be considered. 

Please carefully read this Challenge specific regulation