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Freescale and Indesit demonstrate Smart Grid washing machine

Washer automatically adjusts cycle based on energy cost / availability

by staff from releases

Freescale Semiconductor and Indesit Company recently demonstrated a Smart Washer that can regulate its own energy use based on cost and availability at the Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, Fla.

The Indesit Company’s Smart Washer, equipped with a Freescale ZigBee node, is able to adjust its cycle starting time according to energy cost (in a variable costs environment) and green power availability, getting this information from the local utility via a ZigBee enabled Internet connection to the Smart Grid. The Indesit Company is a European manufacturer and distributor of major domestic appliances.

Freescale hopes their ZigBee technology will help designers reduce complexity, lower bill of material costs and deliver high performance solutions to help appliance customers build ZigBee connected smart houses.

Freescale was one of the first companies to join the ZigBee Alliance and provides platform solutions supporting ZigBee Smart Energy, RF4CE, Healthcare and Home Automation.

Indesit recently launched two projects focused on Smart Grid. The first is a global program for domestic trials of intelligent refrigerators with Indesit’s Dynamic Demand Control technology, which is capable of managing consumption on the basis of grid availability. The second is Energy@home, a research project that will experiment with a system of home appliance interconnections designed to optimize energy consumption.

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