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Smart Grids Workshop
I was priveldged to listen to IEEE Fello and Distingushed Lecturer Dr Bruno Meyer deliver 4 workshop presentations on the Smart Grid. This was the last of an Australia/New Zealand four city roadshow by Dr Meyer (Deputy Director Key Accounts, RTE France) and took place at the Electric Power Engineering Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand.
Quick Trip to Europe
I've just done a whistle stop trip to Amsterdam and to London to make up for the shambles of April when I got caught in the European Airspace closure because of the volcanic ash cloud. That trip was 2 weeks long with only one meeting appointment being kept (Efficient Home Energy in Spain) and 6 days in Malta while I waited for a flight back to New Zealand.
Demand Side Management
On Friday I visited our technology partner SENZTEK to look at the smart devices they have built for home owners to use to understand and control their home energy use. All these devices connect to the Cortexo service and provide real demand side management; but there is much more! The smart hot water controller, that also acts as a hub or base for the Zigbee like Home Area Network (HAN), understand if there are solar thermal panels in the home and can divert extra hot water from the solar to say a spa pool or swimming pool instead of wasting it. Today there's an excellent article about SENZTEK's hardware in the New Zealand Herald.
Going to the Europe to see whats going on
I'm going to the Europe to see whats going on this month. I'm off to UK & Europe at the end of November to meet with clients and to understand how Europe is doing at the moment and where they intend to move with distributed power generation and smart meter use. It will be interesting to compare where they are to New Zealands approach.
Smart technology comming
Working with our technology partner SENZTEK in Auckland, New Zealand, we are developing some very interesting new technology to make energy management in the home something available now.
Energy Roundtable - Wellington 20 October 2009
I attended a very interesting conference in Wellington, New Zealand.The Energy Roundtable had representitives of all the major power companies as well as other players.
New Factory Commissioning
New Factory Commissioning "Hot Test" application release.
Key new features for Commissioning: Now capable of handling a hierarchy of commissioning areas very efficiently so that production testing can scale up in modular manner. A manager can now see the status of commissioning across all of his areas. See screenshots "Commissioning - Status Summary" and "Commissioning - Status overview". Enhanced details page with easy navigation to view the history of each test run.
Factory commissioning software
Factory commissioning software for microCHP production updated
This version 2.0 release is a big step forward from version 1 releases of the Commissioning system in that it not only adds functionality but it is much easier to use.
Cortexo is pleased to announce the release version 3.5
Cortexo is pleased to announce the release version 3.5 of its monitoring service and version 2.0 of its factory commissioning system.
Cortexo at CeBIT
Terry (Managing Director) and Jonathan (Director of Product Development) are currently at CeBIT in Hannover Germany on the New Zealand government trade pavilion. Interest in our remote monitoring has been high especially from providers of smart metering solutions.