2011년 6월 30일 목요일

누리텔레콤

http://www.nuritelecom.co.kr/

누리텔레콤은 통신소프트웨어 기반 응용솔루션 분야, 시스템 관리 솔루션 분야, 플랫폼 기반의 에너지관리 소프트웨어, 지능형 검침 인프라 시스템(AMI: Advanced Metering Infrastructure), 에너지관리 시스템, 인터넷 전자고지 서비스, 에너지 절감 포탈 서비스 등 저탄소 녹색성장을 구현할 수 있는 다양한 스마트그리드 솔루션을 제공하고 있습니다.

그린데일리

http://www.greendaily.co.kr/

2011년 6월 29일 수요일

2011년도 국내인증마크 획득지원사업 - 대전중소기업종합지원센터

http://www.tssc.or.kr/news/centerNews/business.jsp?gid=business&category=0&displayMode=view&seq=52
2011년도 국내인증마크 획득지원사업 지원 공고
대전광역시와 대전중소기업지원센터에서는 대전 소재 중소벤처 기업을 대상으로  『2011년도 국내인증마크 획득지원 사업』을 아래와 같이 지원하고자 하오니 안내사항에 따라 신청하여 주시기 바랍니다.
1. 지원대상 인증·마크
    - 제품인증(3종) : KS마크, KC마크, GS인증(S/W)
    - 신기술 인증(2종) : NEP(신제품인증), NET(신기술인증)
    - 조달청 등록지원(3종) : 조달우수제품, 성능인증, 이노비즈인증
    - 친환경 인증(4종) : 환경마크, 우수재활용인증(GR), LOHAS 인증,
                        녹색경영인증(GMS인증)
2. 지원대상 : 중소기업기본법에 의한 대전광역시 소재 중소기업으로서 2011년도에
             지원대상(공고일 이후) 인증·마크를 획득한 기업 ※ 직전년도 매출액 100억이상 제외
3. 지원규모 : 11업체
4. 지원내용   
  ○ 인증(마크) 획득 총 소요경비(인증비용, 시험비용, 컨설팅 비용)의 70%,
      최대 2,000천원까지 지원   ※ 지원자금 소진시까지 선착순 지원
5. 과제신청
  ○ 신청기간 : 2011.2.23~자금 소진시까지   ○ 신청방법 : 인증획득 후 획득지원금 신청 / 신청서 우편접수 불가(직접방문)
  ○ 제출서류 :
      ▷ 보조금 지원신청서 1부
      ▷ 인증서(확인서) 사본 1부
      ▷ 소요비용 증빙서류 : 세금계산서(영수), 송금내역서, 컨설팅비용 산출내역,
                             시험성적서 각1부(원본대조필) 등
      ▷ 기타 : 사업자등록증(사본), 통장사본(기업명의), 전년도 제무재표 각1부
6. 기타사항
  ○ 국가 및 지자체 지원사업과 중복 지원되는 경우 지원대상에서 제외
  ○ 문의처 : 대전중소기업종합지원센터 기업지원부 길기순 / ☎042-867-4000

Google, GE & Others Prototype Wireless Mote to Connect Any Device to Smart Grid

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/usnap_remote_device_data_standard.php

Imagine a small chip you could plug into any device in your home that would enable it to communicate with your web-based electricity and device management dashboard. Or it could be trained to simply turn the device off at times of day when electricity was particularly expensive.

Such is the vision of the USNAP consortium, a group of companies including GEand Google that seeks to create a standard for the meter-to-device in-home monitoring stage of the promised smart grid. ("Enabling the device ecosystem for the smart grid," is the group's tagline.) USNAP released this week a proposed 2.0 standard spec for small modules that can be connected to devices to render them individually instrumented - measurable and manipulable as discrete sources of data. Where there is plug-and-play data, there is a platform for online innovation.

"This is the equivalent of USB for consumer products," Barry Haaser of the USNAP Alliance says. USNAP is an acronym for Utility Smart Network Access Port and the consortium has been developing its technical specifications for three years. It has created the design for a little module, 55 mm long, with 10 pins and weighing no more than 40 grams - about as heavy as 17 pennies. The module is programmed to send and receive messages to and from the smart meter, in a standard format, using a wide variety of messaging technologies, including protocols like WiFi, and lesser-known systems with names like ZigBee, Z-Wave, RDS, and FlexNetWiFi.

Any companies that apply, are accepted to and pay the USNAP Alliance a $5,000 annual fee may manufacture USNAP modules.


USNAP focuses on the cost benefits of its technology, but interoperable device-level data availability could hold long-term promise for the development of innovative services as well, and thus a larger economy. That's the hope behind the smart grid in general. The easiest way to explain its value is as a system for automated energy demand reduction. That's very big, but the potential is much larger. Self-awareness of our mechanical world, with a web interface, might be one way to explain it.

Electrical consumption data, down to the device level, is today largely abandoned to what is sometimes called our data exhaust. Making that data manageable opens up a world of possibilities for new services dedicated to analyzing it, servicing patterns and deriving unanticipated forms of value from individual and aggregate information. In part on top of USNAP, for example, a whole other technical standard called Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) is being built, a technology that enables buildings to automatically respond to Internet-based signals that provide electricity grid prices and reliability messages.
Just as we've seen in the world of human-published social networking data, however, ownership of this resource is something that's been too lightly considered for several years. If your refrigerator's data is suddenly captured, leveraged and recognized as a thing of value to an emerging supply chain of services - what are your rights concerning control and exploitation of that data? It is your refrigerator, after all!
This is truly the read/write web beyond the individual gazing into the browser. The Internet of Things is expected to be a big part of the future, and technical standards that facilitate interoperable communication between devices is very important within that context.

USNAP has opened its "Serial Interface Specification Version 2.0 Public Review Document" for 30 days of public consideration and comment.

openADR @ QualityLogic

http://www.qualitylogic.com/Contents/Smart-Grid/Technology/OpenADR.aspx

OpenADR research is conducted by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The DRRC defines OpenADR as “Fully-Automated Demand Response using open standard, platform-independent, and transparent end-to-end technologies and/or software systems.” Demand response manages energy use dynamically through cooperation between power customers, electric utilities, and electric system operators.

OpenADR allows building managers to use automated demand response to save peak power use and reduce stress on the electric grid during times of high energy demand. With OpenADR, electric utilities can offer electricity pricing programs based on automated demand response.

OpenADR specifies a low-cost communications infrastructure that improves the reliability, repeatability, robustness, and cost-effectiveness of demand response (DR) in commercial buildings. The research was funded by the California Energy Commission's (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER).
Types of Demand Response addressed by OpenADR include:
  • Load response to enhance reliability
  • Direct load control
  • Complete load interruptions
  • Price response by end-use customers
  • Various pricing schemes including: dynamic pricing, real-time pricing (RTP), coincident peak pricing (CPP), and time-of-use rates (TOU)
  • Demand bidding or buyback programs

BuildingIQ’s Smarter Buildings, Now With Demand Response

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/buildingiqs-smarter-buildings-now-with-demand-response/

Updated: Automated building controls, meet demand response. Australian startup BuildingIQ announced this week that its automated system turned down power use at a Perth, Australia city building in response to a demand response system now being piloted by utility Western Power. BuildingIQ CEO Mike Zimmerman says it’s the first time a building control optimization system has automatically met a utility’s demand to turn down power to manage peak load. But if Zimmerman has his way, the system will soon be tested out in the U.S. as well.
Automating demand response in commercial buildings could be a massive business.  Most of the 40 gigawatts or so of DR capacity in the U.S. today is managed via emails, phone calls, pager messages and other relatively low-tech methods. Letting a demand response message turn down power directly in buildings is more common in industrial settings, where factory managers tend to have sophisticated control systems already in place.
Commercial buildings are a tougher sell, Zimmerman, mainly because they have to keep tenant operations — and comfort — in strict focus. Big property management firms have strict service agreements with their tenants, and they don’t approve of turning off lights or HVAC systems just to save on energy bills.
BuildingIQ’s “predictive energy optimization” system, based on technology from Australian national research lab CSIRO, manages these factors by crunching weather reports, building control system data, energy pricing information, and online surveys of tenant comfort, among other sources of information. That allows the system to fine-tune building control systems with energy prices in mind, Zimmerman explained to us. One example is “pre-cooling,” or ramping up AC units in advance of a spike in commercial energy rates, then letting them idle through the expensive peak price window, usually a few hours in the late afternoon.
BuildingIQ has delivered 20 to 30 percent reductions in energy use in pilots in Australia through such measures, which can go toward reducing energy bills, making carbon emission reduction targets, or participating in demand response events — the latter tempting because they offer payment to the building owner for power turned down on top of whatever they save in energy bills. The system integrates with building management systems (BMS) from vendors like Honeywell, Johnson Controls and Siemens that together hold some 60 percent of the market, Zimmerman said. He intends to announce some go-to-market partnerships with unnamed BMS vendors in the near future, he added.
It will be interesting to see how BuildingIQ’s software-based optimization system mixes and matches with the rapidly automating world of demand response. That world includes EnerNoc’s PowerTalk platform, Comverge’s Apollo software system and Berkeley Labs’ OpenADR system now being tested in Southern California by Honeywell and its recent acquisition, OpenADR server maker Akuacom.
There are also more smart grid-focused projects underway that could also automate commercial buildings for energy efficiency and demand response. Cisco’s Building Mediator product ties multiple buildings into a single, IP-enabled interface for energy controls, and IBM is working on similar building-IT integration with Johnson Controls.
BuildingIQ’s technology acts as a software retrofit of existing building automation systems and each building needs only one server that links to the company’s cloud-based optimization engine. That makes its software similar to products from startups like “continuous commissioning” software maker Scientific Conservation or Cimetrics, which crunches building data to fine-tune temperatures. The difference is that Scientific Conservation and Cimetrics provide data without direct controlling building management systems like BuildingIQ does, Zimmerman said. With so many overlapping venues to link smart grid and building control systems, it will be fascinating to watch how they’re all put together.
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