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Easy-to-use, cost-efficient energy management
nancy!
Wireless communications for Automated Meter Reading (AMR) promise tremendous time and cost savings for utilities. However, specific challenges exist when selecting and implementing an AMR solution. Due to certain topology restraints, AMR can be conducted via “drive by” (or “walk by”...
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Jun 12, 2009
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Smart meters on the rise in Europe
Emmanuel_Sambuis
The deployment of smart meters in Europe is planned to reach about 100 millions of units in the coming 10 years. This past week, I was able to see the efforts provided by the entire European utility market while visiting major meter manufacturers in France. France is very unique in that its market is...
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Jul 8, 2009
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Semiconductors - The Other Silicon in Solar
PaulWestbrook
I’m here at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. If you ask any student to point to the silicon content in their house they will immediately point to their solar array. Very few will point to the dozens of inverters, power supplies, TV’s, computers, ipods, horizontal axis washers, LED...
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Oct 14, 2009
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Smart Metering
nancy!
TI's comprehensive utility metering portfolio includes devices targeted at electricity, water and gas metering, as well as power line communications (PLC) and radio frequency (RF) interfaces for automated meter reading (AMR) that allow customers to design "smart metering" solutions. [Video...
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Jun 9, 2010
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Power Line Communications Solutions
nancy!
Hardware and software solutions for PLC and metering infrastructure. [Video]
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Jun 9, 2010
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Demonstrating Smart Meter Solutions from TI
nancy!
The focus of this video is on energy meters and their advancement to Smart Meters. Smart meters are breakthroughs in the metering industry, bringing in a number of advantages to consumers and utility companies. This video demonstrates a few of TI's advanced smart meter solutions. [Video]
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Jun 9, 2010
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Power Line Communications (PLC) on a Worldwide Tour
Olivier Monnier
Eighteen months ago, if someone would have asked me about Power Line Communication (PLC) modem the discussion would have been about Europe and the smart electrical meters deployment. Today the picture has evolved: new regions, new customers, new applications are now looking toward Power Line...
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Aug 12, 2010
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Home sweet smart home
Sean Murphy
Just five years ago, we started to hear about the electronic electricity meter, or eMeter . Why the interest in this technology? Well, an eMeter can report electricity usage faster, cheaper and more reliably than its traditional mechanical counterparts. The long-term cost savings for utility companies...
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Aug 11, 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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Why application-specific MCU’s are a better solution for PLC than an ASIC
Don Shaver
Myths about DSP versus ASIC have been around for a long time. And, we don’t talk much about ASIP’s. TI has sold application-specific instruction set processors (ASIP’s) for a long time; but we haven’t actually called them that nor have we articulated the benefits of these. Over...
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Nov 17, 2011
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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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Develop on the next generation MSP430 for single-phase metering applications
Jennifer Barry
The MSP430F673x/F672x series is the first MSP430 SoC to target utility metering with a 24-bit Sigma-delta converter, industry's largest 320-segment LCD controller and battery backup system. Did we say industry's largest segmented LCD controller? Yes, we did! Not only that, but we've enhanced...
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Jan 25, 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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Smart Grid Home Area Networks Live WebEx - Free Tool Giveaway!
MaryMcAuliffe
WebEx Description: The Home Area Network or HAN refers to the ecosystem of devices within the home that are connected to the smart grid through a smart meter, through a home energy gateway, or in some cases directly. Some examples of these devices are in-home displays for power consumption monitoring...
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Feb 1, 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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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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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