The partnership commences as Green Energy executes a multi-step plan to create industry user groups and advance standards that promote open, vendor-independent solutions. Magpie software engineers will collaborate with Green Energy’s industry technologists to architect requirements for security and scalability.

The development efforts will deliver solutions founded upon a plug-and-play approach for new solid state power equipment, the companies said.

Margaret Burd, CEO of Magpie TI, said: ”This partnership is an ideal marriage of industry and engineering expertise. Our passion is to develop meaningful software solutions – which is why we’ve focused on building our Smart Energy expertise and fostering strategic relationships with leaders like

Green Energy.”

Peter Gregory, CEO of Green Energy, said: ”As we move towards our goal to replace legacy systems with open solutions, we sought out engineering partners who understood the unique challenges we face in creating open source solutions based upon emerging standards.

”Magpie’s experience in the transformational period of the telecommunication industry provides a strategic advantage in Smart Energy and is ideally suited to Green Energy’s development strategy.”