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The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of more than 260 member companies driving development of ZigBee wireless technology, has announced the official certification of 19 products using the ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile.
This first group of products provides a broad range of services designed to help utility companies worldwide implement new home area networks for managing energy, helps consumers improve their own energy efficiency, and delivers multi-vendor product interoperability.
The ZigBee Smart Energy products, which were tested to ensure they met all of the Alliance’s strict specifications, represent solutions across the efficiency ecosystem – energy services portals, meters, displays, thermostats and load controllers, from companies such as Cellnet + Hunt, Ember, Comverge, Trilliant, and Wireless Glue Networks Each certified product is entitled to wear the ZigBee logo.
“These ZigBee Smart Energy products are an affordable and easy way to improve energy efficiency around the world and reduce the environmental impact of energy consumption,” said Bob Heile, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance.
Advanced metering
ZigBee Smart Energy enables wireless communication between utility companies and common household devices such as smart thermostats and appliances. It improves energy efficiency by allowing consumers to manage their energy consumption more precisely using automation and near realtime information while having the ability to choose from a large global ecosystem of companies supplying interoperable products.
It also helps utility companies implement new advanced metering and demand response programs to drive greater energy management and efficiency.
“Southern California Edison will be relying on ZigBee Smart Energy products like these to connect homes to our Edison SmartConnect program,” said Paul De Martini, Vice President at Southern California Edison. “ZigBee Smart Energy products will provide our customers with choice and promote long term sustainability.”
