Hydro vs IKS

With the Hydro-Québec app, follow track the status of an outage, access information about your account and track your electricity consumption. Power outages The tool to find out more about ongoing outages and planned service interruptions. • Track the service status for any addresses you want at any time. • Manage the tracking options for any addresses you want. • Add a label for the addresses you are tracking: daycare, school, condo, parents. • Activate notifications to receive information about the service status and to find out if there are any planned service interruptions at those addresses. • Report an outage easily. Your consumption Your consumption data presented in different ways to help you track, understand and manage your electricity consumption: • An overview of your hourly electricity consumption from the previous day • An overview of the current period and a forecast of the bill amount • Detailed analysis of your electricity consumption, including a breakdown by use • Comparison with households similar to yours Your account Quick access to sign up for services and manage your account. • See your account balance and next billing date. • See your billing and payment history. • Sign up for the Equalized Payments Plan to pay the same amount every month, winter and summer alike, and receive an alert when you use more electricity than anticipated. • Sign up for Pre-Authorized Debit and avoid late payments. • Turn on notifications to receive billing notices and payment due reminders. Determine your home’s profile and get customized recommendations so you can build your action plan and save. You can easily update your profile when necessary. Click on “More” to for even more! • Options for modifying your home’s profile or for selecting, modifying or adding an account in your Customer Space • App settings to turn on the notifications, modify the language and define your connection options, including Continuous connection • Quick links to the most commonly used online services • Information about how to contact us • Information about touring facilities that are open to the public • Hydro-Québec news

The problem we face today is that thieves have easy access to all makes of car, thanks to advanced technology. Insurance companies are forcing some consumers to insert technologies that allow vehicles to be tracked if they are stolen. So, at the end of the day, despite the tracking technology, your vehicle will still be a target for thieves, with all the inconvenience this can cause owners. Our innovative technology combining IKS (Intelligent Kill Switch) and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) forces the driver to identify himself using his smartphone or artificial intelligence. So, if you fail to identify yourself to the vehicle you want to drive, the IKS technology won't allow the vehicle to start, and it will send a theft attempt notification to the owner of the vehicle the individual is trying to start, even if he or she has obtained the door unlock code. Our product is based on 4 key factors that make it so effective: FIRST FACTOR: MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA) MFA is widely used in banking, and increasingly in all sectors of activity, to increase connection reliability. SECOND FACTOR: THE USE OF SMARTPHONES By using smartphones as a confirmation source for the MFA, we take our security level up a notch to 99.9% efficiency. THIRD FACTOR: VEHICLE IMMOBILIZER By installing an immobilizer on the vehicle, the smart phone and MFA can identify the real driver of the vehicle at all times, otherwise it will remain stationary. FOURTH FACTOR: THEFT NOTIFICATION If an intruder tries to take off with your vehicle and the IKS has not received the MFA from the owner's phone, the siren is activated and an alarm is triggered. The siren is activated and a theft notification is automatically sent to the vehicle owner. So, the choice is yours: choose a tracking technology that gives you an 85% chance of recovering your stolen and soiled vehicle, or choose our technology that allows you to keep your vehicle in your backyard or shopping mall parking lot 100% of the time.