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TI Smart Grid Experts at Metering Europe in Amsterdam
Prasad Dhond
Metering Europe/Smart Homes 2012 - Conference & Exhibition October 09 – 11, 2012 Amsterdam RAI Hall 1, 2, 3 + 4 Entrance K Europaplein 22 1078 GZ Amsterdam The Netherlands http://www.rai.nl TI Stand: G30 http://www.metering-europe.com/
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Oct 3, 2012
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ENERGY STAR Connected Appliance Requirements
Prasad Dhond
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently shared Draft 3 of the latest ENERGY STAR specification for Refrigerators and Freezers . A new addition to this specification is an optional “connected” feature. Appliance manufacturers who implement this connected feature will receive...
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Sep 28, 2012
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A smarter grid could have averted last week's India blackout
Prasad Dhond
News of 600 million people in India left without electricity last week after a major grid collapse caught the attention of the entire world. Several reasons and theories regarding what went wrong have been widely discussed. The factors blamed for the major outage include politics, corruption, power hungry...
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Aug 9, 2012
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Smart Energy Profile 2.0 featuring ZigBee®, Ethernet, Wi-Fi
Prasad Dhond
Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 is an application profile in development that will be used by energy management devices supporting internet protocol (IP). SEP 2.0 is MAC and PHY agnostic so that device manufacturers can implement any MAC/PHY under an IP layer. One of the key advantages of SEP 2.0 is interoperability...
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Jul 13, 2012
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Check out these new Smart Grid white papers, authored by TI energy experts!
MaryMcAuliffe
Developing robust power line communications (PLC) with G3 Channel modeling of medium to low voltage links for AMI applications of PLC Evaluating the low-frequency power line communications channel in Rural North America Sub-metering made ea sy using Texas Instruments energy measurement ICs
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Jun 7, 2012
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What has your smart meter done for you lately?
Prasad Dhond
Smart meters are being deployed throughout the US. In Dallas, our Transmission & Distribution company – Oncor is pressing more than 3 million meters into service by the end of 2012. I already have a smart meter at my home and noticed a surcharge of $2.19 every month on my electricity bill....
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Jun 1, 2012
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Green Button initiative to provide energy consumption insights to consumers
Prasad Dhond
Would you like to access your energy consumption information with the click of a (green) button? Well, that is exactly what the Green Button initiative aims to do. Green Button is an industry-led effort that responds to a White House call-to-action : provide electricity customers with easy access to...
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Apr 18, 2012
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MSP430AFE2xx is the ideal device for appliance energy measurement
Prasad Dhond
Energy consumption awareness is a crucial step in going green as an individual consumer. Real-time energy usage data aggregated at the home-level by smart meters is useful, but drilling down to the energy consumption of each major home appliance is even better and more actionable. Standards such as ENERGY...
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Feb 27, 2012
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TI's MSP430 Energy Watchdog tool makes it easy to design a Smart Plug
Prasad Dhond
The “ MSP430 Energy Watchdog ” is a Smart Plug reference design from Texas Instruments. This tool can be used to accurately measure power consumption of any household electrical appliance. The power measurement is performed using the MSP430AFE253 energy metering IC and results are displayed...
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Feb 21, 2012
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Ultra low-power Wireless Sensor Networks for monitoring the health of your home, building, or factory
Prasad Dhond
TI recently demonstrated a crockpot with an embedded Wi-Fi device ( CC3000 ) that lets you cook meatballs from anywhere . We can say that the Internet of Things (IoT) is really coming to fruition. However, other than being able to cook meatballs remotely, a large portion of the IoT will actually consist...
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Jan 27, 2012
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Turn Off Those Lights When You Leave Work Today
Prasad Dhond
The MSP430 Energy Watchdog Tool is a smart plug reference design from Texas Instruments that can be used to measure energy consumption of electrical appliances. I recently recorded a video of the Energy Watchdog measuring energy consumption of common household electrical appliances like laptops and table...
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Dec 14, 2011
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Can the Home Area Network (HAN) help eliminate rolling blackouts?
Prasad Dhond
The recent heat wave in Texas has been accompanied by warnings from ERCOT (Electricity Reliability Council Of Texas) about rolling blackouts - intentional and temporary interruptions in the electrical supply to different areas of the grid on a rolling basis. As the mercury rises, air conditioning...
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Aug 11, 2011
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TI in D.C. today for the 2009 Solar Decathlon
nancy!
TI is on-site today as a returning sponsor at the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and operate the most energy-efficient and attractive solar...
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Oct 7, 2009