Powerline Technology Demonstrator

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Our business is to design and produce application specific silicon chips that together form ahome energy management network, thereby enabling consumers to understand and reducetheir electrical energy consumption.Xsilon is developing an energy sensor network using a new communications technology thatwill allow domestic appliances (washing machines, fridges, etc.) to send information abouttheir real-time energy usage to a smart meter or pc within the house, where the data can becollated and analysed. This information will be made available to householders through adisplay or a monthly itemised bill, allowing them to understand where they are usingelectricity, and thereby to make savings.The communications technology itself is new and is being developed in several stages. Thecurrent stage will take the results of earlier research work in the form of simulation modelsand algorithms and turn these into a proof of concept demonstrator. The aim of this project isto perform a first implementation of the communications principles into electronics hardware,and to build several units so that the capabilities of the technology can be verified in realhomes, shown to potential customers and used to attract further investment.This is very much a technology evaluation step to prove the underlying concepts. Onceproven successful the next stage will be to develop a prototype silicon chip energy sensorembodying the communications technology.