NEC is demonstrating this week at the Mobile World Congress 2011 how mobile operators can provide their customers with fast-to-market smart home services via any web-enabled device including smartphones and tablets. The NEC OSGi(*1)-enabled Home Gateway provides smart home services that can be dynamically controlled and accessed by a user-friendly web interface. At NEC’s stand Continue reading →
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“Smart Grid” should not be defined simply in terms of new technology for energy conservation, generation and distribution. There’s another component to being smart – communication – and it is essential to the success of America’s new energy initiatives. via Communication is the Key to Smart Homes.
Toyota unveiled its vision of the future on Thursday by launching a smart grid village here with six “smart houses” and eight Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid vehicles. The village is a two-year project designed to show the world how to generate power exclusively from renewable energy sources. via Toyota’s Smart Grid Village launches Energy Storage Continue reading →
Smart homes and smart grids are coming, with big players scrambling to meet increasing consumer demand for easy-to-use energy efficiency tools at home. Everyone, it seems, wants to be the first to sell your local utility company on their new energy management system, and the latest is GreenWave Reality. GreenWave’s energy management platform is built around open-standard Internet Continue reading →
Teridian Semiconductor today announced the launch of its new energy measurement system-on-chip (SoC), the 78M6618 (6618), for use in data center power distribution units (PDUs) and applications in the smart home, including intelligent power strips and circuit breaker panels. The new chip is the industry’s first and only SoC that enables power metering, monitoring and intelligent Continue reading →
The Z-Wave Alliance, a pioneer in wireless solutions for home automation, will demonstrate cutting-edge home control devices this April 11-16 at the Light+Building show in Frankfurt, Germany. Member companies – including Remotec, Fujikom, Pepper One and There Corporation – will put their cost-cutting, energy-saving products into action at Agora C17. via Global SMT and Packaging Continue reading →
One of the biggest challenges facing utilities the world over is educating customers on the merits and realities of smart meters. Texas power company Oncor is taking their smart energy show on the road and is going to take a “smart” mobile home throughout northern Texas in an effort to assuage the public’s concerns. The Continue reading →
The ins and outs of tomorrow’s energy grid will be tested on an unprecedented scale in Chicago. Local utility ComEd, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, will use $5 million in Recovery Act funding to institute the program, which will initially outfit 8,000 homes with advanced smart meters in order to test how well consumers manage Continue reading →
Alcatel-Lucent has joined forces with German internet and communications technology specialist Webolution to set up an energy information network. By integrating a Webolution intelligent gateway, the different interfaces and communications protocols of heating, water, electricity and gas meters can be connected to the internet. This will provide energy utilities with new billing and consumption calculation Continue reading →
The much-talked-about smart grid is finally preparing to enter the home. And Samsung C&T, a leading innovator in the construction and housing industry, is offering a picture of what the intelligent, energy-efficient houses of the near future may look like. The possibilities enabled by the smart grid, which is achieved by giving the current analog Continue reading →
Not all home energy monitoring solutions are endowed with equal embedded intelligence. The EnergyHub home dashboard has won impressive accolades, including a Time Magazine “Best Inventions” award as one of the smartest and most consumer-friendly energy products of 2009. I followed up with Seth Frader-Thompson, CEO and founder of Energy Hub, to find out more Continue reading →
The NSW Government is searching for a family of the future – and if yours is selected you will live rent free in a house that uses the latest energy efficient appliances, generates and stores its own electricity on site and where the family car is electric. Oh…you also need to blog about your experiences. Continue reading →
NEC Electronics America has developed a model of a Smart House of the Future. The structure features transparent walls for easy viewing of the interior and is equipped with “green” features to showcase several different technologies involved in the Smart Grid/Smart Energy concept, including smart solar, smart meters and smart appliances, and the advantages these Continue reading →
Intelligent consumer use of our limited energy supply is now recognised as one of the major factors in the green revolution. According to the Smart Energy Home Initiative, which brings together companies to overcome the barriers that prevent sustainable houses from being the norm, buildings consume 40% of the energy used in Europe and contribute Continue reading →
San Diego, CA PRWEB July 8, 2009 — Multi-billion dollar smart grid and home health initiatives are driving the Smart Home market despite a challenging economy, according to ON World. The energy crisis and out-of-control healthcare spending have governments and the private sector scrambling to develop smart technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networking WSN that Continue reading →
