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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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A Texas electric utility believes customers really do want smart energy efficiency devices in their homes and businesses and plans to install 100,000 of them by 2012. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ford and Microsoft jointly announced an application to help homeowners with plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs) determine the best time to recharge their cars. The intent is to encourage PHEV owners to recharge during off-peak hours. |
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GridPoint, Inc., an established leader in smart energy solutions, and EnergyHub, a leading home energy solutions provider, today announced at DistribuTECH that GridPoint’s home energy management solution will support EnergyHub’s Dashboard, which was chosen by Time Magazine as a Best Invention of 2009 for its ability to “rein in the real power hogs” in a user’s home. The partnership will offer utilities and consumers more choice and flexibility to access best-in-breed smart devices. |
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Control4 has introduced new software designed to help utilities make the most of power management programs over a network of households, and make it easier for consumers to manage their household power use. |
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HAI has developed a mobile application that enables users to manage home and business energy use with an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. |
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The Zigbee® Alliance and Wi-Fi Alliance® have agreed to work together on wireless home area networks for the Smart Grid, with an initial focus on Zigbee Smart Energy 2.0. |
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SGN’s Jesse Berst knows exactly what the ultimate home energy management system looks like. Trouble is, the only way to get it is to stitch it together the way Dr. Frankenstein assembled his monster. Click to read the elements Jesse would choose for his ultimate product and to vote on the feature that you think will be most important to consumers. |
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People Power is the latest to offer an open source kit allowing developers to create Smart Grid devices for the home energy management space. |
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So what exactly is Intel – one of the latest in the long line of tech giants marching into the Smart Grid space – trying to prove with its home energy management software? Should utilities be suspicious? Jesse Berst asked an Intel insider to explain the company’s motives. Find out what he learned. |
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In the same week that Google announced it’s opening up its PowerMeter API to developers, along comes research from Zpryme suggesting the global smart appliance market will soar between 2011 and 2015. But with this increasing attention on home energy management and consumers controlling consumption comes a cautionary note for utilities in a new TELUS-sponsored white paper. |
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The authors of this white paper argue that policy makers need to recognize that current Smart Grid policy is not aligned with the reality of the residential energy management marketplace, and it needs to be changed at both the state and federal levels. The paper presents policy principles the authors believe are needed to achieve a robust consumer market for energy management, which is needed to achieve national Smart Grid residential energy management objectives such as peak load demand response. |
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Is this the year that Home Area Networking really takes off? Ray Bell, Grid Net founder and CEO (and one of the industry's bona fide big brains, according to Jesse), believes HANs may finally be ready for prime time. But he's got a few caveats; click to see what they are - and if you agree. |
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Yet another major player has jumped into the home energy management arena: Make way for Apple. The company has applied for patents for a home energy management system that would allow consumers to reduce electricity bills by controlling and maximizing how power is allocated to home electronics such as computers, cell phones and, yes, iPods. |
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New petition for evidence quality in SmartGrid ops
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