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Written by Akiba
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
The demand response (DR) market is in turmoil, as multiple vendors
take multiple approaches to the technology and to the business
model. It will coalesce in the next 12-18 months and then launch
into a widespread growth stage that should last at least 5 years.
A small stealth mode startup may have a big impact on how this
nascent sector organizes, how it goes to market, and how utilities
approach the opportunity. North Carolina-based Sequentric has the
most comprehensive vision I’ve seen so far. Here are a
handful of the clever ideas I noticed as I made my analysis:
- Cutting the cost of home area networks (HANs) by half or more
- Retrofitting existing appliances cost-effectively
- Leveling residential demand by juggling the loads within the home
- Making an entire house “grid-aware”
- Using water heaters as a storage device for the grid
All of these concepts arise because Sequentric has the first
end-to-end strategy that makes the home a full player, all the way
down to the appliance (device) level.
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Written by Akiba
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
LonMark International (LMI), a non-profit trade association
recognized as the industry authority for certification, education,
and promotion of interoperability standards for the benefit of
manufacturers, integrators, and end users welcomes the following
three companies to its growing member-base.
Wonderware, a market leader in real-time operations management
software, provides open architected, secure, and sustainable
software solutions for the facilities management market worldwide.
Wonderware pioneered the use of the Microsoft Windows operating
system in the industrial marketplace, and a cornerstone of their
success has been to provide users with the ability to manage their
processes with a minimum of maintenance and a low cost of
ownership. Wonderware now has a direct interface to a LonWorks
network and is developing enhancements to support the buildings
marketplace.
Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA) is a
non-profit organization that provides trade promotion services to
the California, U.S., and foreign country business communities.
MBITA utilizes advanced Global eCommerce technologies for its
clients and members to maximize global trade opportunities. The
organization also manages the www.TradePort.org website, a
‘click & mortar’ solution for trade promotion
services, and the TradePort Collaborator, an online community of
public-private sector trade promotion organizations. MBITA and
LonMark International are working together to present educational
seminars on the topic of energy efficiency and integrated systems,
most recently at the Green Trade Network event in Santa Cruz,
California, USA.
The EnOcean Alliance is a consortium of companies working to
further develop and promote self-powered wireless monitoring and
control systems for sustainable buildings by formalizing the
interoperable wireless standard. The EnOcean Alliance has the
largest installed base of field-proven wireless building automation
networks in the world. Their mission is to promote and enable
intelligent green buildings through creation of a broad range of
interoperable standards-based wireless products. The EnOcean
Alliance and LonMark International have entered into a partnership
relationship to develop and promote complementary solutions to the
controls market based upon an open, LonWorks infrastructure.
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