indesit smart objects

Smart objects and quality

of life services for Active

Healthy Ageing

Jade Workshop Grenoble, 6th- 9th March 2012

Valerio Aisa

Grenoble, 6th– 9th March 2012

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Agenda

• Indesit Company Introduction

• Connected Appliances: why?

• Who are the drivers?

• Smart objects for active healthy aging

• Connectivity: technical trends

• Indesit approach to connectivity

• Opening the market to new services

• Conclusion


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Agenda




• Smart objects for active healthy aging




• Conclusion


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Our Company

Presence: 24 subsidiaries all over the world

Annual Turnover: 2.9 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

Listing: Listed on Milan Stock Exchange since 1987


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Our History

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Colston

Fri-Sado

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Fab

Por. Indesit

Pekel

New World

Star

Little Swan*

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Incorporation

of Merloni Elettrodomestici

Scholtès

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Stinol 02

Hotpoint


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Our Presence - Industrial Footprint

16 Factories in Europe

• UK: Dryers

• Italy: Dishwashing, Cooling, Washing, Built-in

Cooking

• Poland: Cooling, Cookers; Washing,

Dishwashing

• Turkey: Cooling

• Russia: Cooling, Washing


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Our Presence - Commercial Offices

24 Subsidiaries all over the world

Extra-EU:

• Singapore

• Shanghai

• Dubai

• Buenos Aires


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Our brands

We work, you play Our ideas, your home. The taste of perfection


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Smartness

User Centered

Clean Tech Minimize the use of resources to reduce the Eco-footprint in term of product and process

Be Closer to the Customer Needs

Self-adapt to dynamic conditions and cooperate in open ecosystems

Innovation and technology improvements in design and manufacturing

Process Innovation

Behind the scene improvements: high impact on products, not directly visible to the consumer

Product Technical Improvement

Our STRATEGIC AXIS


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Our STRATEGIC AXIS: Smartness

Our reputation in NETWORKING (& SMART GRID)

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Agenda




• Smart objects for active healthy ageing




• Conclusion


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Connected Appliances: Why?

• through a direct dialog with utilities, based on suitable

“application profiles” and communication technologies

• indirectly, by embedding “Dynamic Demand Control” (DDC)

function inside household appliances

1. For increasing energy efficiency (smart grid)

2. For accessing new web based services

• remote monitoring and control

• remote assistance and preventive maintenance

• “smart objects for active healthy ageing”: connected appliances

able to monitor the “vitality” of the users working as “health-care

devices”


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• Conclusion


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Connected Appliances: main drivers

home network

Gateway

(web services)

Energy

Manager

internet

smart grid

social issues (population is ageing)

energy issues (need to increase efficiency)

smart appliances


local

database

AAL

telemedicine

system

“Vitality”

Monitor

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• Conclusion


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Household Appliances as “vitality” sensors

Telecare

/Telemedicine

System

Medical

sensors

Each appliance detects user interactions

and communicates these events to a

device capable of obtaining information on

his/her habits and to detect and notify any

abnormal behavior.


local

database

User “vitality”

monitor

• daily behavior

• user habits

• habits changes

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• Conclusion


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Connectivity: technical trends

According to AHAM (USA) assessment, the highest

scored standards for home applications are:

• Media and Network layers: Wi-Fi, ZigBee, HomePlug

• Application layers: Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (IP based)

Energy@home profile (IT): ZigBee Home Automation 1.2

Indesit approach : ZigBee and “Power Modulation” (PM)


1) High-end Products: ZigBee node inside the appliance

2) Medium range & Low-end Products: use of PM technology

PM

SA

Smart Adapter

(Smart Plug)

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• Conclusion


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Connectivity: Indesit approach

PM

SA

Smart Appliance

High-end appliance

with ZigBee node inside

PM

A B

C

Home Gateway

Smart Adapter

(Smart Plug)

Smart Socket

HAN (Home Area Network)

A : High-end appliance with ZigBee node

B,C : Standard appliances with PM tech.


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Communication system based on PM Technology

PMI

Power Modulation

PM micro-

controller

RX200 microcontroller

PMI peripheral

CPU

Digital Appliances

Communication node (e.g. ZigBee , WiFi , PLC , ...)

AFE

Smart Adapter

AFE

Home Network

(e.g.: Zigbee)

SA

SA

Smart Appliance Smart Plug

Thanks to PM Technology, a

digital household appliance is

able to communicate, through

its power cable, by using its

native control system, without

adding any extra cost!

A specific silicon peripheral

(PMI = Power Modulation

Interface) has been

implemented by Renesas on

RX200 microcontroller.

29 March 2010: Indesit has

signed a free license agreement

with Renesas in order to liberalize

PM technology.

Power Modulation


PM = Power Modulation technology

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Renesas RX200 microcontroller family


Higher performance, greater code efficiency, lower

power consumption, more integration have been

achieved, while providing legacy, enhanced and

new peripheral functions for many applications.

Peripheral functions have been ingeniously designed

to enable easy compliance to IEC 60730, which is

required by home appliances in Europe, and the

realization of products with high safety capabilities.

SOURCE: Renesas RX2Z0 Group , RX200 series, Hardware User’s Manual (preliminary specification Rev. 045 Sep 2011), pag. 1193-1240

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• Conclusion


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Opening the market to new services

Indesit PM technology allows a standard household appliance to

communicate at no cost, therefore it is suitable for mass production

Indesit strategy about PM: liberalization for opening the

market to new services based on connectivity

• Development of PMI (Power Modulation Interface) for microcontrollers

• PMI implementation on silicon by Japanese Renesas

• Free (non exclusive) license agreement between Indesit and Renesas

• A free license of PMI is available for any other manufacturer of microcontrollers

Indesit will adopt PM technology on mass production in two years

Any other manufacturer of household appliance can freely use PM

technology (no royalties to pay to Indesit)


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Agenda







• Indesit Business Model

• Conclusion


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Offer of new services coming from standard appliances

home network

Gateway

(web services)

Energy

Manager

internet

smart grid

standard appliances


local

database

AAL

telemedicine

system

“Vitality”

Monitor

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