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Indesit Smart Energy Management

Green ICT Turin – 5 July 2010

Stefano Frattesi

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Indesit Co: the 2nd largest appliance manufacturer in Europe

Annual Turnover: 2.6 billion euro

Main Brands: Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston, Scholtès

Product Lines: Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, dryers, freezers, cookers, hoods, ovens and hobs. Free standing, Built In.

Production: 16 plants

Employees: 16,000

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Energy consumption scenario in Europe

Sources: JRC – “Electricity Consumption and Efficiency Trends in European Union - Status Report 2009 ”

HouseholdsIndustry

Service

Others

of which 43% is the 

consumption of 

Major Domestic 

Appliances 

• Reduction of GHG emissions by 20% by 2020• 20% renewable energy sources by 2020• Saving 20% of the EU’s energy consumption for 2020

What are the European Union targets?

20‐20‐20

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Indesit 1.0 energy saving approach

Traditional technologies  for energy 

efficiency:

• Reducing the quantity of water

• Using higher efficiency actuators and 

motors

• design low energy cycles 

• bettering the thermodynamics

Outstanding results from previous appliances generation:‐60% energy consumption for Washing Machine and Dishwasher‐75% energy consumption for Refrigerators

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From Energy 1.0 to Energy 2.0

4

Tech 

limitation

BUT…

Energy efficiency

Time or effort

Lifecycle of innovation curve

ICT

will be the main technology enabler 

Smart  Appliances in Smart Grid:

A new generation of  GREEN 

appliances that anticipates the 

future evolution of the home

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One Example: SwissIndesit Energy 2.0 : Smart Appliances in the Smart Grid

Smart Grid: the Energy World Wide Web

The Smart Appliance, endowed 

with additional intelligence and 

communication capability,becomes an Automa 

in a wide area network Ecosystem

Smart House

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Smart Appliances in Smart Grid: Values, Services and Use Cases

Extra Home automation services enabled:

Remote control

Tele service (preventive diagnosis, on line help)

Appliance customization (cycle download and

configuration upgrade)

Energy awarenessCustomer energy awareness alone  could reduce up to 

15% energy consumption (Darby – Oxford university)

Demand Side Management:Capability of load and unload depending on central 

system schedule and requests in order to contribute to 

grid balancing and  green power usage enhancement

Energy Management: 

Optimize energy consumption 

Avoid load peaks

Through coordination according to

Customer settings

Variable energy tariffs

Green Energy availability

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Smart Appliances in Smart Grid: the major challenges

Networking and Communication 

Standard: Technology Profile Protocol

System Integration: Business Model : from products to services Appliance producers, Telecommunication and 

Energy

Utilities as necessary actors in the system Need of new actors like aggregators and 

system integrators?

Customer Satisfaction:Why customers should be happy of contributing to the system?Which simple mechanism for customer revenues? Avoid “Big brother”

effect...

From products to systems….

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Home  ElectricityMeter

Customer Interfaces

SmartInfo

Home Gateway

SISI

Other meters

Additional electricity meters

Home Domain

DSO legacy systems

Service providers’systems

Smart appliances

Customer Interfaces

HN connections

Service platform WSN‐C

WAN

HAN connections

HAN(Home Area Network)

HN(Home 

Network)

Devices interfaces

Other connections

Appliances  with Smart Plugs  

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Smart Appliances in Smart Grid: Network and ICT Requirements

ICT provides the Smart Grid 

infrastructure

The gateway is involved as a bridge in all 

the networks: HAN, HN, WAN

ICT requirements:

Integration in the existing HN infrastructure, easyinstallation, low cost

Easy on demand access to Indesit customers houses 

Coordination role and customization capability(possibility to download and host Indesit sw 

applications)

Networking standard and interoperability

Low consumption

Suitable bandwidth, coverage, robustness and securityfor energy management features and transactions

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Indesit Smart Appliances related Projects

BTC

BUI Home Domain BUI Home Domain

HOMELINE HOMELINE

ALICE Gateway 

Home DomainHome Domain

DEMSDEMS

Wide Area Wide Area NetworkNetwork

SmartSmartGridGrid

Indesit Company, RLtec and Npower roll out Europe’s 

biggest  trial of smart fridgesThe dynamic demand technology

developed by Indesit 

research Team helps to maintain the balance between 

supply and demand across the national electricity grid (UK grid balancing cost 270M€, saving 2M tonnes of 

CO2, 20% of CERT)DDCDDC

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Thanks

Thanks for 

your 

attention