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Blog Post:
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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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