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Telegesis helps Onzo with its new energy management tools
Onzo, the global designer of domestic energy management systems, and ZigBee specialists Telegesis
(UK) Ltd used the recent ZigBee alliance Smart Energy Forum in Dublin, which took place on 13th February, to unveil the Onzo Smart Energy Kit ZigBee edition. This provides consumers with a clear, simple display of real time data, helping them understand and manage energy usage.
The ZigBee edition of the Onzo Smart Energy Kit is made up of a combination of a ZigBee home energy display, which integrates into the consumers' or utilities' home area network, and a software suite, which enables consumes to manage their energy use online through a web portal.
ZigBee is a key enabling technology for energy management products in the home. The ultra low power wireless networking standard offers secure, reliable, home area networks (HAN) and makes it easy to embed wireless communications into a wide variety of metering products. ZigBee enables devices to assemble into robust wireless mesh networks that configure and heal automatically and has emerged as the prime standard for wireless HAN and metering applications.
Onzo and Telegesis have been working closely over several months and in addition to hardware support, Telegesis also implemented the new ZigBee Smart Energy Application Profile for Onzo on the ETRX2 module.
The ZigBee Smart Energy Profile defines the standard behaviour of Home Area Network (HAN) devices such as home displays like the Onzo Smart Energy Kit, which are key components in the emerging area of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), enabling communication between utilities and HAN devices.
Commenting on the collaboration, Onzo CTO Ben Pirt said The Telegesis ETRX2 allowed us to get to market quickly and the addition of the Smart Energy Profile means that our product will be compatible with a wide variety of other smart energy devcies. Overall, we're very happy with the performance and support from Telegesis.
Telegesis Sales Director Ollie Smith commented We're delighted to be working with Onzo, who've clearly produced a cutting edge design. Telegesis focuses exclusively on ZigBee and I'm especially pleased that our skill in ZigBee Smart energy has helped Onzo develop such an innovative product.
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Telegesis is the world's largest supplier of ZigBee modules based on the Ember platform. Based in Marlow UK, the company designs and manufactures a wide range of Zigbee module solutions. The company's focus is to produce ZigBee products allowing designers to add ZigBee capability without the need for specialist RF and embedded skills, getting ZigBee solutions to market faster and reducing engineering and design costs. Telegesis has recently introduced devices fully supporting the ZigBee Smart Energy Profile for AMI & AMR applications.
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