ZigBee SMART ENERGY Today

Smart meter deployments have been rapidly increasing over the last few years around the world. Millions of meters have been installed and even more contracted for future installation. The large majority of these deployments are using ZigBee Smart Energy, the first and only widely available Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) standard. These deployments enable energy awareness and management in the home area network (HAN) and deliver the ability for consumers to take charge of their energy consumption.

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Since its inception, the ZigBee Alliance has been a standards development organization with a global strategy and a global membership base. The Alliance's interest in and commitment to the European market is even greater than its 30 percent European-based membership would indicate since nearly half of ZigBee's 400-plus members have active business operations or interests in the European market. Europe is important to the ZigBee community and ZigBee standards are important to Europe.

The Alliance participates in a number of European events each year. This year, ZigBee participated in the 5th European ZigBee Developers' Conference, and will be exhibiting at Metering Europe, and speaking at the Wireless Congress in Munich later this year. The Alliance also holds one member meeting each year in Europe. This year it is in Barcelona, Spain.

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The testing and certification of products is a critical part of the standards development process for the ZigBee Alliance. Unlike most other standards development organizations, the testing and certification of products is actually a requirement that must be completed before the official release of standards. Here's why:

• Improves the quality of standards. Product developers actually implement a draft of the standard in their product and test their implementations against other products made by different manufacturers. Multiple independent developers who work together to create high-quality products review the standard. This process also reveals any ambiguities or errors in the standard, allowing them to be corrected before products ever reach store shelves.

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Alliance members were welcomed by Chinese dignitaries at ZigBee's June Member Meeting in Wuxi, China. Haitoa Liu, Chief Scientist of IoT, China and Chairman of Working Group of Sensor Networks at the Sensing China Center, discussed the possibilities and opportunities to use ZigBee throughout China. Xiaoping Mao, Party Secretary of Wuxi Municipal CPC Committee, shared information about Wuxi's growing role as a sensor network center of expertise.

The ZigBee Alliance and the Sensing China Center co-hosted an Internet of Things Workshop Saturday, June 4, at the Wuxi Technology Park just before the ZigBee Member Meeting to invite Chinese industry stakeholders to understand the valuable role ZigBee plays in the emerging market and how it operates with other standards. Nine ZigBee Alliance work group or committee chairs addressed more than 130 workshop attendees on a variety of ZigBee topics related to the Internet of Things. The Sensing China Center, a scientific research and technological innovation center for large-scale sensing network application in China, provided insight into the ongoing development of their Internet of Things project, as well as plans for to implement a Smart Grid in China.

ZigBee Certified products now number 175 across six ZigBee market standards: ZigBee Smart Energy, ZigBee Home Automation, ZigBee Remote Control, ZigBee Health Care, ZigBee Telecom Services and ZigBee Input Device. ZigBee Certified also certifies Manufacturer Specific Profiles.

ZigBee Certified products available since February 2011:

ZigBee Smart Energy

• Comfortchoice Touch Tstat, Carrier Corp.
• IHD-200, GiiNii
• Onzo Energy Display, Onzo
• RAVEnUSB, Rainforest
• Solo SE, Green Energy Options
• Meter Protocol Converter, Telegesis
• Talking Plug 11202, 2D2C Inc.
• Home Base, EnergyHub
• Puffin, Secure Meters
• Air Conditioner (FNQ153DGKW), LG Electronics
• RFN-420FL Gridstream RF Enhanced Focus, Cooper Power
• AX, Landis + Gyr
• G370 3700, Landis +  Gyr
• Next Gen 3 Meter, Echelon

ZigBee Home Automation

• Dimmer Switch, LG Electronics
• Dimmable Light Mains Power, LG Electronics
• Outlet, 2D2C

MANUFACTURER SPECIFIC DEVICES

• NT2400R56-2 series (Remote Control), NEC Tokin

ZigBee In The News

Smart Appliances to be a $26.1 Billion Global Market by 2019, According to Pike Research
April 13, 2011

SAE and ZigBee team on vehicle-to-grid standard
March 15, 2011

CenterPoint Energy installs one millionth smart meter
February 23, 2011

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Twenty-five new members have joined the Alliance in 2011. Since February 2011, the Alliance welcomes the following new members.


Participants
Analog Devices
Distech Controls Inc
GainSpan Corporation
Intertek Testing Services Na, Inc.
Kansas City Power & Light Company
Origin Energy
Panasonic Corporation
ubisys technologies GmbH
Yamatake Corporation


Adopters
Advanced Digital Broadcast SA
Cogent Healthcare Systems
EM-Lite Ltd
HCL America, Inc.
iHouse Tecnologia Ltda.
International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc. (IBEC, Inc.)
Mono Products Limited
SMC Networks Inc.
Takahata Precision Co., Ltd.
Technicolor R&D France
Telecommunication Metrology Center
Telematics Wireless
Verified Energy, LLC
Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
Vinno Technologies Inc.
Zenros APS

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ZigBee SMART ENERGY Today

Smart meter deployments have been rapidly increasing over the last few years around the world. Millions of meters have been installed and even more contracted for future installation. The large majority of these deployments are using ZigBee Smart Energy, the first and only widely available Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) standard. These deployments enable energy awareness and management in the home area network (HAN) and deliver the ability for consumers to take charge of their energy consumption.

With Smart Meter deployments under way, ancillary smart energy devices like programmable communicating thermostats, energy use displays, smart plugs and appliances are gaining momentum, helping to drive a projected $26.1 billion global market by 2019, according to a recent Pike Research study. The firm anticipates ZigBee will lead in wireless connections to smart appliances.  Additionally, ON World estimates that ZigBee Smart Energy will comprise about half of global revenues for home energy management equipment and services, aggressively projected at $3.3 billion in 2014, among both wired and wireless systems.

ZigBee has earned its leadership in the market and in analyst projections because the ZigBee Smart Energy standard was developed and advanced by its current and potential users -- utilities, regulators, suppliers, product manufacturers -- the key stakeholders in the energy market. These members volunteer their time and expertise to build the standard in an open and consensus-driven manner that ultimately serves  the markets and gives consumers easy-to-use products that will help them be smarter energy users.

In building the roadmap for the future, the ZigBee Smart Energy Working Group is working diligently to complete Smart Energy 2.0 next year. Smart Energy 2.0 is expected to be the long-term solution for AMI, allowing for simpler integration with existing IP-based systems and protocols and the ability to operate over multiple communications protocols like Wi-Fi, HomePlug, HomeGrid, and others. As a result, ZigBee Smart Energy functionality has been expanded for both current and future deployments to include new features for electric vehicles, distributed energy resources (solar, wind, etc.), improved security, improved network management and the means to migrate between today’s environment and that of tomorrow.

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Since its inception, the ZigBee Alliance has been a standards development organization with a global strategy and a global membership base. The Alliance's interest in and commitment to the European market is even greater than its 30 percent European-based membership would indicate since nearly half of ZigBee's 400-plus members have active business operations or interests in the European market. Europe is important to the ZigBee community and ZigBee standards are important to Europe.

The Alliance participates in a number of European events each year. This year, ZigBee participated in the 5th European ZigBee Developers' Conference, and will be exhibiting at Metering Europe, and speaking at the Wireless Congress in Munich later this year.  The Alliance also holds one member meeting each year in Europe.  This year it is in Barcelona, Spain.

The 5th European ZigBee Developers’ Conference was held this past May. This year’s two-day event featured 29 speakers and 10 sessions, including keynote speaker Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. Attendance was the highest ever with 250 people. The Alliance has been an active supporter of this conference from the beginning.

To better support its 100-plus European members and to facilitate the partnerships with various European Standards Groups like CEN, CENELEC and ETSI and various industry alliances like ESMIG, DLMS, SEDC and others, the Alliance opened a permanent ZigBee Alliance office last year headed up by Larry Taylor, director of ZigBee Europe.  The office is located in Cambridge, England. Its presence will also help foster new partnerships and relationships in support of the needs of the European Community.

The testing and certification of products is a critical part of the standards development process for the ZigBee Alliance. Unlike most other standards development organizations, the testing and certification of products is actually a requirement that must be completed before the official release of standards.  Here's why:

• Improves the quality of standards. Product developers actually implement a draft of the standard in their product and test their implementations against other products made by different manufacturers. Multiple independent developers who work together to create high-quality products review the standard. This process also reveals any ambiguities or errors in the standard, allowing them to be corrected before products ever reach store shelves.


• Supports member product development. Because Alliance members are focused on bringing successful products to market, the Alliance supports their efforts by building interoperability testing events into the standards development process. Members who participate in these events can improve the quality and performance of their products while getting their ZigBee Certified products to market at the same time as the release of the standard.


• Prepares the testing and certification program. The ZigBee Certified program ensures only quality ZigBee products are available in the marketplace. To make this possible, careful preparation of the testing program is necessary and integrated into the process so certifications are available as soon as possible.