Smart Grid prepares to Enter the Home

Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances’ power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere. Consumers can interrogate this server from a PC or iPhone to see not only the consumption pattern of various appliances attached to smart plugs around the home, but also to send instructions back to switch them on or off.

“People make 10-20% savings when they get this kind of information,” says Adrian Tuck, Tendril’s chief executive. “And remember every kilowatt saved in the home saves three at the generating station.”

If half the households in America cut their power consumption by just 10%, it would be like taking 8m cars off the road. Or doubling the amount of energy produced from renewable sources, such as expensive, roof-top solar panels. Read the whole article


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Realizing the ‘Smart Grid’ Vision

The conversation about electricity infrastructure is likely to change very soon as governments and the private sector build out the vision of a smarter, electricity web that is infinitely more reliable, robust and profitable. The electric industry is poised to make the transformation from a centralized, producer-controlled network to one that is less centralized and more consumer-interactive. The move to a smarter grid promises to change the industry’s entire business model and its relationship with all stakeholders, involving and affecting utilities, regulators, energy service providers, technology and automation vendors and all consumers of electric power. The main elements of a smart grid are software,sensors & storage. The good news is that these three systems might finally be reaching a tipping point in cost and performance that allows us to turn the ‘smart grid’ vision into a reality.

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