a lot more ‘Z-Wave helps save the World’ type stuff today with the new QEES SmartGate and open software Platform. The hardware and software pair, in conjunction with metering devices, enable home owners to monitor and control their energy usage. The SmartGate is described as an “All-in-one-Gateway’ that replaces your wireless router and adds a telephone gateway, energy management and home controls. With the open software platform users can also configure and control entire smart home networks.
Protecting the environment and your budget by using less power – The Z-Wave alliance member QEES has developed a smart metering option that can manage and save energy in offices, hotels and homes. The green Living option consists of three crucial components: 1) QEES SmartGate, 2) QEES open software platform and 3) interoperable metering and control devices. In buy to enable wireless communication in home control solutions, QEES makes use of technology such as the proven Z-Wave wireless standard.
QEES recently presented the green Living option to terrific acclaim at the Metering Europe/Smart houses 2010 trade fair in Vienna. The product series will be available on the market at the beginning of 2011. The option is based on the QEES SmartGate, which is an “All-in-one-Gateway” that can replace the standard Wi-Fi router in a lot of homes, as it unites a powerful NAT router, a firewall and a telephone gateway in one appliance. In addition, QEES SmartGate supplies interfaces to modern energy management and home control solutions. For example, the gateway can easily be connected to Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Z-Wave and Bluetooth networks, with all devices (e.g. mobile telephones, touch screens etc.) being combined to form a control network. End-users are thus able to make use of intelligent home automation technology in buy to minimize energy consumption in houses and offices etc., as well as benefiting from functions such as energy management, boosted comfort and also security.
The QEES open software platform is exactly that. It consists of a local management software in the SmartGate and a cloud-based management software for large-scale installations through energy utilities or telcos. consumers can install and configure entire smart home networks, including all the individual network devices. This allows, for example, heating systems, air conditioning systems, illumination units and safety systems to be managed in an energy efficient manner. In buy to save energy, the system can for example turn off devices that may otherwise have stayed in standby mode, unless they are programmed to stay powered like the refrigerator, etc. The system also informs consumers about current energy consumption and makes it possible to check the status of devices remotely, for example by mobile telephone, regardless of where the user is actually located at that moment.
Both QEES SmartGate and QEES open software platform are interoperable with a large range of home control products. QEES green Living option can form the control, configuration and maintenance units for the efficient use of interlinked electronic appliances in houses or in offices and hotels etc.
Making “green living” economical – The QEES products and options were very well received by visitors at the Metering Europe/Smart houses 2010 trade fair in Vienna. just a few years ago, household automation was considered to be a luxury reserved for people with a particular interest in technology. Now, QEES has set itself the goal of supplying detailed but economical smart home and energy management solutions. Morten Bremild, Sales & marketing director at QEES, stresses the claim made by the company: “Everyone must have the opportunity to make use of smart home technologies. energy management options offer terrific potential in terms of energy savings for private households, hotels, schools, offices etc. and thereby create the possibility of adopting a green and environmentally sustainable way of living – which we call green living.”
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