BOULDER - The largest energy provider in Australia has deployed a service to its customers that uses a software platform developed by Boulder-based Tendril Networks Inc.

Origin Energy, with 4.4 million customers, will introduce Origin Smart to eligible households across Victoria. Origin Smart is built on the Tendril Energize application suite. It offers insight into how consumers use energy, along with tools to better manage their electricity consumption and bills.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The solution uses half-hourly data from a household's smart meter and converts it into an easy-to-understand and visual analysis of each household's energy consumption and costs. It uses a web portal customized by Tendril.

"We're proud to be providing one of the innovative technologies that Origin is deploying to better differentiate itself in the competitive energy retail market in Australia," Adrian Tuck, Tendril's chief executive, said in a press statement. "We are also excited to be a part of what we believe to be the first large-scale, mass rollout of an energy consumer-engagement campaign anywhere in the world."