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Intelligent energy management
In-Home Displays are fast becoming the answer to utilities’ energy management and customer relationship needs.
Based on the open, secure Zigbee® Smart Energy Profile, smart meters with wireless two-way communications are being installed at customers’ homes that enable products like the PowerTab In-Home Display to communicate directly to your customers.
The benefits of smart metering are many, and allow utilities to:
• Reduce the need for manual meter reading
• Collect data minute-by-minute to instantly detect
power delays, brownouts, or blackouts
• Improve billing accuracy and transparency
• Help customers better understand and track their electricity costs
• Introduce variable rate billing structures such as Time of Use
and Critical Peak Pricing
• Offer incentive programs to encourage off-peak energy use
• Manage peak load challenges, increasing reliability of the grid
• Manage carbon emissions
• Defer generation and transmission acquisition
• Reduce the risk of infrastructure obsolescence by investing in
smart metering based on open standards |
