smart energy

We just completed the ZigBee meetings in Vancouver. What a nice city and great place to visit. I recommend everyone try a jog through Stanley Park before going to any meetings in Vancouver.

We recently completed the members meeting in Atlanta. It was another busy week with a lot of meetings. Attached is a set of slides providing and overview of the meetings and what was accomplished. I try to put these together after each meeting for those who were not able to attend.

For the quick summary here are the highlights: – another series of busy Smart Energy meetings. Everyone had some champagne to toast completion of certification and approval of the specification by the Board. Then it was back to work sorting the list of proposed enhancements to be incorporated.

We completed the ZigBee Smart Energy Certification last week in Pleasanton California. This event was the end of a testing cycle that started in December 2007 after the ZigBee Meeting in San Diego. We held testing events in January, March, 2 in April and then the certification in May. Each of the Companies involved had to attend all of these events to become certified so it is quite an investment of time. We had a good mix of all the types of devices within the SE specification including 6 Energy Service Portals, 3 meters, 3 programmable