IoT based Smart Metering and Grid Solutions
The smart metering solution helps consumers to control their energy use, allowing them to adopt measures that can efficiently help save money on their bills and offset price increases.
On the journey to smarter, greener technologies and a sustainable planet, there is but one keystone area that is setting the framework for everything else — and that is smart energy. So far, the mass-scale implementation of smart energy systems has been rather cost-prohibitive and thus at a premium for even the best of modern cities. As a recent cost-relieving breakthrough in this slow-go area, the Internet of Things smart grid solutions have come up with a practical cure to balance out the increasing sophistication of the energy distribution networks and achieve real-time visibility into the consumption process.
The Pixel IoT Platform provides essential IoT functional blocks that allow assembling smart energy solutions with both speed and seamless interoperability. Various sensors, smart metering devices, controllers, smart energy monitors, and electrical grid assets can be, almost literally, plugged into the main gateway and managed in real time over a secure cloud connection. For local-scale IoT smart energy deployments, Pixel can be used as a master IoT platform for smart building solutions, smart home energy solutions, smart lighting systems, and IoT smart meters implementation.
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Smart meter
Smart meters are essential to efficient energy consumption and a key part of the smart grid infrastructure. Smart meters help consumers stay fully informed about their daily energy use. For utility companies, real-time visibility into the energy consumption process translates into accurate billing data and the ability to balance the demand against supply. With the Pixel IoT Platform, smart meters can be easily implemented to support these and many other smart grid features.
- Real-time smart home/smart building energy profile
- User apps for billing data
- Smart metering over HVAC, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment
- Smart meter data analytics
- Secure OTA(over-the-air configuration)
- Fault detection
Smart Appliances
Smart appliances are a major prerequisite for efficient energy use. Ours is a feature-rich Internet of Things platform that allows you to embed IoT applications into connected home appliances, lighting controls, industrial hardware, and other machinery. These applications allow users to adjust energy consumption settings, schedule equipment operations, and track billing data in real time, cutting down costs and streamlining production resource planning.
- IoT applications for smart appliances
- Embedded Smart Meters
- Multi-appliance energy management solutions
- Consumer electronics electricity management apps
- Smart building and smart home energy management
- Industrial equipment energy and billing management
Smart Lighting
Pixel allows building smart lighting solutions with greater flexibility in regard to choosing hardware components (sensors, smart bulbs, gateways) than most of the other platforms. With Pixel around you, will have no issues with integration or interoperability between those devices. Additionally, Pixel provides a list of smart features for connected lighting devices.
- Light sensors and smart bulbs integration
- Individual profile management
- Automated interoperability for lighting elements, gateways
- Applications (mobile/web) for zonal lighting adjustments
- Usage patterns analysis
- Smooth OTA firmware updates