Towards the Connected Home Cambridge Wireless – The Future of Wireless 29 Jun 2010 Pilgrim Beart, Founder
Nov 15, 2014
Towards the Connected HomeCambridge Wireless – The Future of Wireless 29 Jun 2010Pilgrim Beart, Founder
Today
• Potential to address climate change in the home• Evolution of home services, networks, gateways
AlertMe
Home
Transport
Other
DEMAND
30%
Consumer pull to address climate change
• 30% of total national energy is consumed in the homeEnergy Consumption in the United Kingdom (Jan 2001) www.berr.gov.uk/files/file11250.pdf
• Demand-reduction is a quick & cheap way to reduce gap– Approx £368k per MW saved
• Energy is the most-expensive in-home service– Energy bill is >8% of take-home pay
Av. household disposable income is £14,520 (U-switch press release, 6 Jun 2008)Av. domestic energy bill is £1,213, (U-switch press release 26 Aug 2008)
• Yet we have no effective visibility or control. So we waste.• 90% of consumers concerned, and want to save money
OnePoll™ survey of 1000 broadband users (Sep 08)
Fossil GA
P
Renewables
SUPPLY
TOTAL
ENERGY
How will it all happen?
Car vs Home
Car:• 50 microprocessors
...working together• Doing your bidding• Simply• Safely• Economically• Visibly
House:• 50 microprocessors
...all Isolated
...70mpg and rising
How will we get there from here?
• “Smart Home of the Future”– We won’t get there in a single leap– “Home Automation” is for geeks & millionaires
• We ARE getting there with 1:1 applications• ...some being built on a common platform• ...and platforms will increasingly interoperate• Smart Metering people talk about the “HAN”
– ...but 65% of all consumers already have a HAN
• The type of PHY is increasingly irrelevant– Online services are easiest connected... online
Standards
• Moving towards IP(v6) is good – but not enough– Doesn’t deal with sleepy end-points– Global addressing is nice, but not sufficient– Biggest challenge to Internet of Things is Management– Broadband routers already do an increasing amount:
• DHCP
• Firewall
• NAT
• Battle of the Gateways– Service distributed into the gateway too
• for latency and resilience IP
broadband
The big picture – the big prize
Solar PV
Smart Meters
Controls
Boilers
EVsDisplays
Web
(skinnable)
Solar Thermal
Cloud
Services
StorageService
Operators
Appliances
Phones
Microgen
Conduct the
Home Energy “Orchestra”
to the benefit of the consumer