6LoWPAN for Home Area Network

Bridging Digital Technologies for Smart Energy Management

ENERGY MANAGEMENT : controlling Home Appliances and Solar Energy Resources ENERGY MONITORING : monitoring Energy Consumption with Load Shedding WORLD CONNECTIVITY : linking Electrical Appliances over the IP Network

The goal of the next-generation Home Area Network (HAN) is to remotely connect and control many automated digital devices in the home and also share data between them. While a number of data transfer technologies and associated communications protocols have become available for HAN deployment, they have been very difficult to interconnect so far.

Watteco's 6LoWPAN solutions enable any electrical appliances to be interconnected using the powerline infrastructure. Possible applications are as follow:

• Smart Metering (for home control)
• Home Area Network (HAN) for energy control
• Home Automation
• Renewable Energy Resource Management
• Wireless and Power Line Interoperability
• ...