Overview

ZigBee Smart Energy offers utilities and energy service providers secure, easy-to-use wireless home area networks (HAN) for managing energy. Smart Energy gives these groups and their customers the power to directly communicate with thermostats and other smart appliances.

New advanced metering and demand response programs can be implemented in homes easily and securely because of ZigBee wireless technology. Now utilities and energy service providers can easily implement energy management and efficiency programs to meet changing government requirements.

There area a growing number of products certified by the Alliance for ZigBee Smart Energy. These products represent every type of device needed to implement a robust home area network using ZigBee Smart Energy.

The ZigBee Alliance and the HomePlug® Alliance have been working to define a wired and wireless version of Smart Energy. The ZigBee+HomePlug Smart Energy marketing requirements document details the next generation of functionality envisioned for the Smart Grid with accompanying consumer control. It includes insight to a variety of use cases including plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging, installation, configuration, firmware download for HAN devices, prepay services, user information and messaging, load control, demand response, demand response, and common information and application profile interfaces for wired and wireless HANs. It is now available for free public download.

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