{"id":5909,"date":"2021-12-28T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csa-iot.org\/?page_id=5909"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:37:17","slug":"smart-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csa-iot.org\/all-solutions\/smart-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The world\u2019s leading standard for interoperable products that monitor, control, inform, and automate the delivery and use of energy and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download Smart Energy Specification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Features<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Markets<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Specification<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/a>

Certification<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/a>

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Creating Greener Homes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smart Energy supports the diverse needs of a global ecosystem of utilities, product manufacturers and regulators as they plan to meet future energy, water and gas needs. It helps create greener homes by giving consumers information they trust, and the automation they need, to easily reduce their consumption and save money.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Build Consumer Confidence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Information and cost transparency increase consumer trust, allowing them to make better consumption decisions for their wallet and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Choices and Savings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Utilities gain better control of grid management, while consumers have more choice in utility providers to increase savings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reduce Emissions Footprint<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Smart energy revolutionizes consumer knowledge to optimize energy consumption to reduce emissions footprint and ease regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easy to Use<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Standard technology, certified interoperability, global 2.4GHz spectrum and regional SubGHz eases adoption and customer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secure and Reliable<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Secure by design, self-healing mesh network eliminates single points of failure, supporting residential, commercial and industrial deployments.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With hundreds of millions Smart Energy deployments globally, it\u2019s the trusted choice for commodity monitoring and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Certification ensures Zigbee Smart Energy Application Standards deliver wireless networking and interoperability, while leveraging the expertise of hundreds of engineers and business people to ensure only quality products which have earned the Connectivity Standards Alliance Certified logo are available in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Commodities Metering Support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Supports multiple commodities including electric, gas, water, and thermal. This means real-time and historical information for the generation and consumption of energy, whether battery- or mains-powered, providing visibility for utilities and consumers alike.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Support text messaging that can be used for utility text messages to consumers and text message communication between devices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pricing Support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Support Flat, Block, and Time of Unit (TOU) pricing for residential, and commercial\/industrial customers. Provided customers when combined with metering with current energy cost, and forward looking cost to shift demand to peak generator periods to lower consumer energy cost and address utility grid stability in a Distributed Energy environment. TOU pricing often used as a demand response control signal to shift demand to low cost times eliminating need to send unique Demand Response events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Support real time shedding demand to prevent brownouts and blackouts, and future demand to balance demand and generation for utility grid stability plus maximize revenue over existing grid assets. Provides utility with encrypted demand response logs for tracking who received and ran events, and who opted out of demand response events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Support Certificate Based Key Establishment using 128 bit X.509 certificates embedded in Smart Energy certified devices out of band for device authentication and unique encryption key between HAN devices and utility meters, and between HAN devices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Learn How and Why Smart Energy is Serving the Market Today<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Alliance has released SmartEnergy 1.4a, for Zigbee-based energy management technology. This newest revision includes 100+ CCB requests, Key Establishment Cluster test cases, and 128-bit security for device certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this video, Tobin Richardson, Alliance President & CEO, shares how Zigbee supports energy efficiency and allows transparency for consumers everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With its secure, self-healing mesh network and wide-ranging support for all commodity monitoring across residential, commercial, and industrial applications, Zigbee Smart Energy continues to lead in global energy management solutions. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zigbee Smart Energy provides real-time, accurate information on energy usage across all sources for commercial and residential spaces. By building consumer trust and supporting efficient grid management, it drives smarter energy use and sustainability.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zigbee Smart Energy provides real-time, accurate insights into energy and water usage, empowering consumers to track their consumption while helping utility companies manage demand response, optimize billing, and enhance customer service<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zigbee Smart Energy has been crucial in the move toward greener homes and more efficient energy use, helping utilities and consumers save money while minimizing environmental impact.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Smart Energy offers robust security and utilizes the global 2.4GHz spectrum alongside regional Sub-GHz, making it easier to implement in single-family homes, multi-dwelling units, and commercial buildings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zigbee Smart Energy has long been recognized as a leading standard for smart metering in Home Area Networks (HAN). With over a quarter of a billion Smart Energy devices deployed worldwide, this technology is driving the future of global energy management.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With over a quarter billion Smart Energy products on the market, it’s clear that Smart Energy technology is a testament to the maturity, evolution, and market readiness that can only be achieved with years of real-world deployment and adoption.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smart Energy in the Market<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Residential<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Transparent price and information empower and increase consumer trust, deliver energy cost savings, help control\/integrate residential Distributed Energy Resources (DER) with utility for a win-win solutions, and give consumers choice in utility providers. Real-time information drives smarter energy decisions, reducing impact on environment and improving emissions footprint. Smart Energy features are reliable, secure, easy to install and convenient to use.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Open standards support competitive marketplace of multiple vendors that lowers cost through competition. Smart energy helps lower energy costs, reduce your impact on environment, and ensures regulatory compliance with building and emissions standards.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Smart Energy\u2019s sole purpose is to offer utilities with another way to provide value and differentiate themselves. With a focus on reducing utility usage, and keeping consumers informed, Smart Energy provides value to every user.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bringing together the world\u2019s most innovative companies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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