Our changing energy grid
Climate change and the drive to Net Zero has driven a change in the energy industry.
With our grid swapping out old fossil fuel powered generation towards renewable sources, and the adoption of electrically powered low carbon transport (EVs) and heat pumps and air conditioning, we are going to put more and more strain onto our local and national grid infrastructure.
It’s not just about how much energy you use, its about the instantaneous power that is needed which could overload the substation transformers and wires in the ground.
If everyone charges their EV or switches on their heat pump at the same time we’re likely to see more blackouts in the local neighbourhoods, or more likely the DNOs will have to limit how many of us can be allowed to install a heat pump or EV charger in our homes.
Energy Smart Appliances
There is a solution to this – Demand Side Response (DSR) and taking advantage of the inherent flexibility when using Energy Smart Appliances (ESA).
When you plug in your EV when you get home you may only need 4 hours to charge it, but you have a 12-hour window in which to do so. This inherent flexibility can mean we can shift when your vehicle is charged without affecting the outcome, but in doing so can have a massive positive benefit to the grid (and reduce the carbon used).
With intelligent Energy Smart Appliances (ESAs) we can take advantage of smart home IoT protocols such as Matter and the DSR grid control protocols such as OpenADR 3.0 to automatically control how and when the appliances use energy.
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We can offer you a bespoke service to help your business excel.
Product Strategy
Our experts can work with your product and engineering teams to plan your launch strategy.
With over 25 years of experience building consumer electronics and telecoms products, we’ve been there. We can help you avoid the pitfalls.
Proof of Concept
Persuading investors and prospects often needs a demonstrator to bring the promise alive, without it needing to cost the earth.
Our team of embedded and full stack web developers can help bring the vision to life.
Energy Smart Appliances
Our team of consultants are connected with what’s going on in the energy sector, especially with government consultations, Energy Smart Appliance standards such as UK PAS 1878 and EU Code of Conduct.
We can keep you abreast of the latest industry trends.
Past Projects
Our team have worked on a wide range of projects with a mix of hands-on development in R&D, white papers and standards development, product management and pre-sales.
Solar PV / Battery Storage with DSR flexibility
Our engineers have developed an in-home smart energy optimiser and control of battery storage with solar, EV and DSR flexibility.
Battery powered
Thread Radio products
Our team got to grips with Thread as a IoT radio standard – using it its mesh networking and narrowband transmissions in 2.4GHz spectrum to build an battery powered Matter based product.
Energy Management
White Papers
Our team wrote a series of white papers on Energy Management best practise and DSR flexibility of Heat pumps, including heat-loss calculations and the impact on local grid infrastructure.
Matter Energy Management
Our experts wrote the Energy Management specifications in Matter, so we have an in depth knowledge of how it all works, and how to write code and applications that can unlock products.
EV charging and Heat pump solutions
Our engineers have produced several integrations with 3rd party EV chargers and led the development of the world’s first Matter enabled EV charger.
OpenADR
Our developers implements a demonstrator PoC showing how OpenADR can be used for grid control of Matter based ESAs in homes.
