SMART GRID - Appliance Design

Naperville Smart Grid Battle Heads Back to Court The town trying to install citywide intelligent metering thought it was past objections from local conservative groups trying to sink the project, but not so fast.

	It's a Mobile World Welcome to the growing world of mobility where people want to manage and control their home and apartment systems remotely, conveniently, easily through iPhones, iPads, Droids, laptops, desktops. by Bill Zalud

	DOE Releases Guidance for Energy Efficiency Programs New best practices and case studies from the DOE may help communities initiate their smart grid programs.

	Energy Star Label and Smart Grid Capitalizing on the potential for smart grid: opportunities from smart grid enabled appliances by Amanda Stevens

	The Smart Grid is Coming…The Smart Grid is Coming Smart grid technology is here, so how can manufacturers be sure their appliances are ready to participate? by Geoff Mulligan and Vint Cerf

	Why Should OEMs Care About Smart Grid? It is a matter of load shifting and load shedding for appliances. by Patrick Wetterwald

	Who Needs 2-D Drawings? Modern 3-D CAD applications can create rich, 3-D, total product definitions, and software applications can now expose this data to downstream operations—eliminating the need for redundant, ambiguous and expensive 2-D drawings. by Chris Garcia and Paul Perreault

Smart Appliances to Reach $26.1B Globally by 2019 Though off to an initial slow start, Pike Research estimates smart appliances to see greater growth beginning in 2013.

Forbes: Smart Appliances Need Smart Policies New smart grid technology has potential to reduce stress on our nation’s electricity system, but is there anything else there?

Consumers Feel They Only Moderately Understand Smart Grid Technology A survey was conducted on behalf of Whirlpool Corporation and Habitat for Humanity International by the NAHB Research Center, which reported opinions from consumers and builders on topics related to green home building.

Power Delivery Solutions Co. to Help OEMs Adopt Smart Grid Tech DNA Group says new initiative will develop creative ways for appliance OEMs to easily incorporate smart grid technologies into their products

	Association Report: Smart Grid Opportunities AHAM has gone from an organization that monitored the nascent developments of the smart grid to the go-to resource for the technical and public policy requirements for the effective integration of smart appliances with the smart grid. by Joseph M. McGuire

Is 'Smart Grid' a Curse Word? "People are getting tired of the word in all its bits and pieces, because it's been so overused..."

Wi-Fi Alliance Responds to GE's White Paper Heralding Zigbee as Best Wi-Fi Alliance Responds to General Electric's white paper released in early December 2010 that touts Zigbee as the best choice for smart grid technology applications.

GE: Zigbee More Efficient Than Wi-Fi In a white paper released by GE's Appliances and Lighting division, communication in the home area network is best done using ZigBee, after comparing several communication options including Wi-Fi, PLC and Bluetooth.

Smart Grid Webinar Now Archived Watch this free webinar, "Smart Grid's Appeal at the Appliance Level" now and make sense among myriad in-home and in-appliance communications methods.

Itron Joins IPSO Alliance Smart meter company Itron joins the IPSO Alliance.

Smart Grid World Forum Virtual Conference Coming in December Videos of the World Forum's Smart Grid sessions and speaker interviews will be available online for those who can't attend the conference in Belgium.

Omron and STMicroelectronics Enable Smarter Gas Metering At the heart of the cooperation is a proprietary Omron transducer and a companion analog front-end chip developed by ST. These technologies have been integrated into a complete stand-alone subsystem.

Accent Secures 5 Million Euros in Funding to Expand Smart Grid Technology Offerings The funding will be used to accelerate development and productization of communication technologies for system-on-chip solutions required by smart meter and emerging smart home applications.

Fairchild Semi Focuses on Smart Grid Technology at Electronica 2010 Fairchild Semiconductor will demo its latest technological advancements for power solutions that focus on the smart grid at electronica 2010.

	Focus on Innovation: A Smart Washer With Perfect Timing Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor and European appliance manufacturer Indesit Co. have designed a Smart Washer that can control its own energy use based on cost and availability. by Genevieve Diesing

	You Are Now Connected Manufacturers bring wirelessly enabled smart appliances quickly to the marketplace. by Derrick Lattibeaudiere and Abhinay Venuturumilli

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. to Implement One of the Largest Smart Meter Programs in North America Deployment of smart meters to result in enhanced service reliability and customer service for BGE's 1.2 million customers.

Government to use D.C. Smart Grid Pilot Program as Blueprint for Best Practices The report on the pilot program, which tested demand response and dynamic pricing responses from Pepco customers in the District of Columbia, will be utilized by the White House as a best practices example for other states considering their own smart grid deployments.

Paul's Perspective: Day 1 at the IFA Show in Berlin! AD blogger Paul takes us through IFA Berlin--day by day. by Paul Roggema

Silver Spring Networks Smart Energy Platform to Assist Indianapolis Power & Light Co. IPL is funding the project, in part, through a $20 million smart grid investment grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

Tennessee Utility Co. Chooses Smart Grid Technology Platform With so many technology platforms to choose from in the current market, wading through the pros and cons of each technology can be a laborious task.

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. to Implement Smart Grid The project should provide $2.5 billion worth of savings to BGE customers.

AHAM Calls for New Efficiency Standards Home appliances manufacturers call for improved national efficiency standards and tax credits in the U.S.

Smart Meter Manufacturers Agree to Standards for the UK Three meter manufacturers reach an agreement to develop common approaches for smart communication standards.

Tendril Secures Smart Grid in 14 States The energy management provider gained 20 Smart Grid programs this year.

	Poor User Experiences with Smart Meters a Risk for Energy Suppliers? Smart meters could represent a fork in the road for energy suppliers.

One Step Closer to IP-Based Smart Products The IPSO Alliance announced the successful interoperability of two new elements of the IPv6 protocol for small, resource-constrained embedded devices known as “smart objects.”

Smart Appliances Aid Consumers and Utility Companies GE has developed a line of “smart” appliances that react to pricing signals from the utility company and delay or reduce wattage of high-consumption tasks until lower-cost, off-peak periods.

Study Finds Many Consumers Skeptical About Remote Home Appliance Management According to a study, consumers are unwilling to allow electricity providers to remotely limit the use of their home appliances without significant rate discounts.

U.S. Government to Provide $100 Million for Smart Grid Workforce Training The DOE will provide $100 million toward smart grid workforce training programs.

AHAM and CES Join Forces to Showcase Smart Appliances at CES 2011 The Connected Home Appliances TechZone, co-sponsored by CEA and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) will have 10,000 square feet of exhibit space for manufacturers of next-generation appliances.

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New Group Promotes Smart Grid to Consumers To help build consumer acceptance and use of the smart grid, a group of smart grid leaders today announced the formation of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC).

ZigBee and Wi-Fi Alliances Collaborate on Smart Grid

The ZigBee Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today an agreement to collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) for Smart Grid applications. The initial focus of the collaboration will be ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0, which is the next-generation energy management protocol for Smart Grid-enabled homes based on today's successful ZigBee Smart Energy Profile.

Smart Grid Revolution Disruptive for Utilities, Survey Says Only 8 percent of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37 percent have projects underway and more than half haven’t yet started, according to a new survey by Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.

AHAM Testifies Before Senate on Smart Appliances On March 10, Joseph M. McGuire, president of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers testified before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee that S. 3059, the National Energy Efficiency Enhancement Act of 2010, opens the door to perhaps the most dramatic energy savings yet attributable to home appliances.

Smart Appliance Market to Hit $15 Billion in 2015 The global market for smart appliances is projected to grow to more than $15 billion by 2015, according to market research and consulting firm Zpryme, Austin, Texas. China, U.S., Australia, and U.K. are among the top markets for smart appliances to be purchased by ‘griders’ i.e. smart grid ‘active’ consumers.

Few Consumers Aware of Smart Grid and Smart Meters Utility companies across the U.S. are committing billions of dollars in projects to upgrade the electric grid and install new meters in homes and businesses.

NIST Wants Comments on Smart Grid

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has launched a public forum to solicit views on questions pertaining to the consumer interface to the nation’s evolving “smart” electric power grid. The solicitation below was announced in the Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 33, February 19, 2010, under Notices.

GE Appliances Show Smart Side at Olympics GE Appliances & Lighting’s smart or smart-grid-enabled appliances are making a strong showing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games – behind the scenes as well as in the public eye.

AHAM Says Consumers Are Key to Smart Grid At a panel discussion hosted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) affirmed that consumers are the key to the development and effectiveness of the Smart Grid in the U.S.

Whirlpool Displays Smart Grid Clothes Dryer The Whirlpool smart dryer illustrates how smart grid-compatible dryers will operate in consumers homes, reacting intelligently to peak-demand signals from a smart electrical grid and automatically modifying energy consumption.

	Editorial: Searching for Smart Standards Engineers recognize an important reality of which the general public is mostly unaware, that the marvels of modern technology stand upon an unseen foundation of standards. by Richard Babyak

Springboard Engineering Receives Smart Grid Technology Grant Springboard Engineering, Inc., Newton, Iowa, a provider of engineering services to the consumer appliance, agricultural, medical device and other industries, announced it has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history.

Whirlpool to Produce One Million Smart Grid Clothes Dryers by End of 2011 Whirlpool Corp., Benton Harbor, Mich., has announced that it will produce one million Smart Energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program.