Multifamily | LicensingThe Home Energy Saver (HES) Multifamily APIs are available for licensing. Technology Transfer at LBNL Berkeley Lab licenses software and technologies to industry in order to move Lab inventions to the marketplace and benefit the public. Berkeley Lab seeks licensees that can marshal the requisite financial, R & D, manufacturing, marketing, and managerial capabilities and commitment to successfully commercialize Berkeley Lab innovations.
Given license fees that are a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars we have invested in developing these web services, third-party software developers can avoid similar expenditures and get tremendous leverage by re-purposing the tools we have developed. Licensing On-boarding Process
We are pleased to report that for at least the initial one-year license period, we will absorb all the costs of hosting, referred to in the new licenses as Usage Fees (the previous plan was to pass that on to you). For reference, our current usage costs are approximately $0.01 per API call. Evaluation licenses are non-renewable, and we thus encourage parties to wait until they are ready to dedicate time to the evaluation process before executing a license. Requests for additional information can be directed to hesapi@lbl.gov |