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Home-area networks (HANs) and the sense of empowerment they can give individuals over their electricty consumption will help drive consumer Smart Grid acceptance. Use this section to stay current on this important topic.
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With increasing frequency we’re seeing reports of new players or new partnerships in the home energy management space. Everyone wants in on the action. But Pike Research senior analyst Bob Gohn poses the billion-dollar question: Who will entice pesky consumers into “behavior change” – and be able to make money doing it? Don’t miss his analysis. |
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Allure Energy, Inc. today announced smart energy technology that is designed to simplify and enhance home energy management, while increasing energy savings by up to 30%. Using its patent-pending Proximity Control(TM) Technology, Allure Energy has created the first truly automated home energy management system. |
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Cisco calls it an innovation platform. But Jesse Berst has taken a look under the hood and he's calling it the Smart Grid’s first operating system. Either way, the important thing is that we are finally starting to see the underpinnings of a real end-to-end platform. Click inside for details on this promising development. |
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GE just made a series of announcements that illustrate both the strengths and the weaknesses of its Smart Grid strategy. Take a look yourself and see if you agree with Jesse Berst that there may be individual strokes of brilliance in GE’s portfolio – but they are hampered by the lack of an end-to-end strategy to connect all the pieces. |
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Technology expert Erich W. Gunther reviews the TED 5000 home energy monitoring device from The Energy Detective. The TED 5000 uses a hardware-based gateway that receives signals from the voltage and current sensors and makes the data available through a built-in web interface. Click inside to read why it scores only 74 out of 100 on the SGN Smart Grid Scorecard. |
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Cisco's Connected Grid portfolio just got bigger with the announcement of new home energy management and smart building technologies. |
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Cisco today unveiled new technologies that build on its recently announced Connected Grid portfolio and help consumers and businesses better monitor and manage their energy consumption for cost and carbon savings, including an easy-to-use interface for the home environment. The Cisco® Home Energy Management Solution features a Home Energy Controller along with Cisco Energy Management Services that, when provided by utilities to their customers, are designed to help consumers securely and reliably gain insight into, and easier control over, their energy use |
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Duke Energy today announced it has signed an agreement with Cisco – a worldwide leader in networking technology - to pilot and further develop a smart grid-enabled home energy management solution that will provide Duke Energy customers with secure and reliable energy information and a simple-to-use tool to help them reduce the amount of energy wasted in their homes. |
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Award-winning independent news source Sustainable Industries today announced the release of its 2010 Top 10 Green Building Products guide, the annual publication profiling industry-leading green building products selected by a panel of expert judges and Sustainable Industries magazine’s editorial team. |
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The HomePlug® Powerline Alliance, the driving force for global powerline network technology, today announced the approval and publication of the HomePlug Green PHY (HomePlug GP) specification for Smart Grid applications. HomePlug GP is a low power, highly reliable, cost-optimized powerline networking specification targeting Smart Grid connectivity for home energy management to devices such as HVAC, smart meters, appliances and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. |
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HomeGrid Forum today announced that the G.hn standard for next-generation wired home networks has been approved by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) during its Geneva meeting held this week. All three components of the new standard –- the Data Link Layer (G.9961), Physical Layer (G.9960) and coexistence protocol (G.9972) –- are now complete. Numerous manufacturers are expected to bring semiconductors for multimedia home networking to market later this year (see today’s related silicon vendor announcement from HomeGrid Forum). Through this one global standard, consumers will be able to connect and share content of all types over any wire in their homes -- coaxial cable, power lines, and phone lines.
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The recent announcement that a wireless electric load controller has completed Zigbee Smart Energy certification testing also gives us news on a larger scale: Smart energy device testing is blasting off as a global Smart Grid industry.
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National Technical Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of engineering services, announced today that it recently completed ZigBee Smart Energy certification testing for a feature-rich, wireless electric load controller manufactured by SimpleHomeNet, a division of Compacta International. The tests were run at the NTS laboratory in Culver City, CA. Following completion of the certification tests, the ZigBee Alliance reviewed the test results submitted by NTS and the application submitted by SimpleHomeNet and certified the load controller. |
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With big guns like Google and Microsoft and scores of others competing in the home energy management space at the same time billions of dollars are going into Smart Grid and smart meter deployments, Pike Research says the onus will be on utilities to offer customers the energy information devices they’ll use to monitor consumption. |
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With technology vendors from small device startups to Microsoft and Google moving into the home energy management (HEM) market, and with governments and utilities investing billions of dollars into smart grid and smart meter deployments, sales of HEM systems will grow rapidly over the next several years. Offering energy information displays (EIDs) and other energy management technology will be a key aspect of smart grid initiatives for utilities, which will become the prime distribution channels for these systems, according to a recent report from Pike Research. |
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The ZigBee Alliance, and the IPSO (IP for Smart Objects) Alliance announced today an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) using the ZigBee IP specification and the ZigBee Smart Energy™ version 2.0 standard. The two alliances will collaborate on expanding HANs by using IP technology. The ZigBee Alliance is a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, and the IPSO Alliance promotes the use of Internet Protocol (IP) in smart objects. |
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IBM and energy consultant Hildebrand are joining forces to enable large-scale home energy monitoring for three million or more homes in the UK. The project integrates IBM's Informix database into Hildebrand's monitoring system. |
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Wait! Before you click inside to see which Smart Grid trends Jesse Berst thinks are most important right now, think about what you’d put on your own list. If Jesse’s got it right, the top trends he’s identified ought to be pretty close to yours. Find out why. |
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PassivSystems, about to launch its unique home energy management product PassivEnergy, has been recognised as one of Europe’s leading privately owned companies in the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2010. Now in its 10th year, Red Herring spotlights the top 100 privately owned technology startups from all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). |
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SyChip, Inc., a leader in Radio Frequency Chip Scale Modules (CSM) and a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., today announced the introduction of their SyNode™ Smart Energy Embedded Module. The SyNode Device (SN3020) is the smallest, lowest-power, fully compliant ZigBee module supporting Smart Energy and Home Automation profiles. |
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Ember today announced it has reached a key milestone in its quest to become the world’s foremost provider of ZigBee technology for smart meters and Home Area Network (HAN) products when it became the first company to ship more than 10 million ZigBee wireless chips. This milestone is reflected in the company’s record revenues and sales bookings, making Ember well positioned for almost 300% annual revenue growth in 2010. |
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The Zigbee Alliance has released its draft 0.7 document of Zigbee Smart EnergyTM 2.0 available for download and public comment. Smart Energy has been an important part of advanced metering infrastructure and smart metering on home area networks. |
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SyChip, Inc., a leader in Radio Frequency Chip Scale Modules (CSM) and a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., today announced the introduction of their SyNode™ wireless sensor node (SN3010). The SN3010 is the lowest-power, fully complaint ZigBee sensor node on the market. The SN3010 facilitates reliable, energy-saving wireless networking applications and includes the complete ZigBee Pro protocol stack supporting the ZigBee Smart Energy and Home Automation profiles. |
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The ZigBee Alliance has opened its ZigBee Smart Energy version 2.0 Technical Requirements document for public comment. The draft covers an IP-based energy management solution that allows expanded use in new areas and configurations. |
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GE will install a new type of meter in homes in Maui's resort community of Wailea. It's a wall-mounted unit capable of monitoring how much electricity appliances are using and turn them on and off as peak demand periods come and go. |
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