Leading
connected home event highlights how telecom operators and energy companies
should position themselves in the growing home energy management market
As Smart Home services rapidly evolve and
increasing focus is placed on rising energy costs, consumption and
conservation, the industry is undoubtedly poised for further growth. This
represents an attractive opportunity for telecom operators and utility
companies to expand their services and revenue streams, which will be addressed
at this year’s Digital Home World Summit, taking place 18-19 June in London.
Home control
can be tracked back to the 1980s, however despite the continuous development of
Smart technologies for Smart Homes, there is still a huge growth opportunity
within the industry. It has been forecast that the number of installed households with HEMS (Home Energy
Management Systems) will grow to more than 40 million in 2020[1], highlighting the enormous potential
for operators and energy companies.
Jean-Paul
Krivine, Project Director of Smart Energy – Smart Home at French energy
supplier, EDF, who is speaking at the event, says: “Helping to create
energy-efficient Smart Homes, where the energy bill is controlled, is an
obligation and commitment for energy companies. By becoming smart, the house
will also be able to deliver energy flexibly to the power system. The Smart
Home is an opportunity for utilities to reinforce trust and confidence and to
consolidate an improved and sustainable relationship with their customers.”
Focussing on
the energy sector, the fourth annual Digital Home World Summit holds more
relevance than ever for those in the HEMS ecosystem. This is echoed by the
content of the event programme which also includes a presentation from Vince
Maret, Director, E-Lab at Bouygues Telecom, who will explore converging energy,
Smart Grids and telecoms. His session will assess the Smart Home opportunity for energy companies and the
prerequisites for achieving profitability, while highlighting the importance of
partnerships, collaborations, eco-systems and standardisation.
The conference will include a focus on standardisation, which plays a
crucial role in the evolution and adoption of energy management systems.
Standardisation promotes best practices and provides the tools to design sound
policies, optimise installations and systems and improve energy efficiency.
“The
past two decades, and particularly the past five years, have changed consumer
expectation of technology services and products. The combination of continuous
internet access, and smart phones with effective user interface and app-store,
means that people expect a similar style user interface, downloadable functions
and extensibility when dealing with home services like energy, security and
health. HGI is working with broadband service providers, manufacturers and chip
vendors to develop software and hardware architectures to make this a reality
and we’ll be discussing the latest findings at the conference,” says Ruth
Wilson, Member of Board of Directors, HGI, who will discuss the value of
standards in the connected home as part of the agenda.
The conference
and exhibition will take place at the Hilton Paddington in London on 18-19
June. To view the full event programme and register for Digital Home World
Summit, please visit http://www.digitalhomeworldsummit.com/.
Alternatively, keep up to date with the event on twitter by following
@DIGTALHOMEWS.
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About Digital Home World Summit
Connected home services have seen an
influx of support by the pay TV industry and unlikely partnerships have been
established across a variety of vertical sectors such as energy, healthcare, education and vehicles. Now in its
fourth year Digital Home World Summit brings together thought-leaders
to present and discuss new user interface and content discovery ideas, plus,
innovative new platforms and solutions relating to this fast-moving industry. For more information, please go to http://www.digitalhomeworldsummit.com/.
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