Seeking Maximum Interoperability
With smart appliances on the horizon, now is the time for utilities to seize the opportunity to offer services into the premise.
By minimizing or eliminating interruptions, the self-healing grid could save industrial and residential consumers over $100 billion per year.
Electric Power Research Institute. 2003.
The rapidly changing world of Home Area Networks (HAN) becomes a manageable reality for utilities with Silver Spring Networks' flexible open-standards policy. Our deep involvement in emerging standards ensures that investments in both AMI network and HAN yield the reliability required to extract value from deployed devices such as thermostats and emerging smart appliances. SSN also provides an unparalleled, holistic approach to security.
HANs enable consumers to better understand their consumption patterns and modify them constructively and responsibly. Even at this nascent stage, our open, scalable and limitless approach can handle rapid changes that call for backwards-compatible solutions. As Silver Spring Networks develops the next generation of HAN connectivity, these are our priorities:
- Maximum visibility and control by consumers over energy usage throughout their home
- Solutions require clarity, modularity and interoperability
- Displays must provide meaningful real-time usage information, rate information and alarms
- Network management, provisioning and security are not afterthoughts–they must be intrinsic to the product and, importantly, scale