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services and can receive remote commands. The European Committee of Manufacturers of
Domestic Equipment (CECED) defines unified objects and actions for white goods
appliances. As transmission media are defined: twisted pair, powerline, coaxial cable, radio
frequency, Infrared
BatiBUS presents one of the first field busses for home and building automation. It was
developed to control sensors, actors and appliances and make communication between them
possible. Applications for this bus are climate and ventilation, illumination and lighting and
security and alarm technology. Twisted pair cables will be used as transmission medium.
BatiBUS is standardized by CENELEC and under ISO/IEC as JTC1/SC25.
All these standards should be interoperable with the AIM EMDs and equipment. It should be able
to fit and be a part of the AIM architecture.
2.4
Research projects
A number of research projects are active in the field of energy management technologies.
Project Acronym
Field of work
DINAR
Management of energy sources and supply
DEHEMS, BEAWARE, BEYWATCH, AmI- Monitoring technologies for CO2 mitigation,
MoSES, DIADEM, INTUBE
energy sparing
E4U, GENESIS
Synergy creation and policy shaping of energy
aware initiatives for Labelling, CoC, etc
Table 2: Relative research projects and area of involvement
AIM is mostly related to those projects working on monitoring issues and in particular with
BEYWATCH and DEHEMS. Both projects deal with technologies of household energy monitoring,
as well as with methodologies for “connecting” households’ energy consumption with CO2 emissions.
With regard to these two projects, AIM offers the enabling technology that allows generic profiling
and energy measurement of the appliances composing the home environment. Moreover, through its
use-cases, AIM offers a generic methodology for appliances energy management and control that can
be adopted by the two projects in the development of their monitoring solutions.
A brief description of these projects can be found in Annex: “Related research projects description”.
2.5
Challenges and identification of progress beyond state-of-the art
The challenges in the state-of-the-art affecting the project are summarised in chapter two of this
deliverable, where the trends in the area of energy saving technologies were identified, specifically in
low power components, microelectronics and software.
Concerning the trends in the low power components, they affect the design of the AIM low power
home gateway. Concerning the trends in the microelectronics, the fact that every consumerelectronics products today is designed in order to do accommodate more functions with reduced need
for energy affects the project work in the sense that AIM architecture will make use of these functions
to manage the energy consumption reduction.
Concerning the trends in the software, the efficient power-management scheme for controlling each
device components' power supply, shutting off power to components not needed, or placing
components in sleep mode were considered in the AIM's Energy Management Device (EMD).
Adopting as the baseline of its work plan the state-of-the-art approach introduced by the ADSL
Forum, the project will extend the concept of using discrete power mode levels for mapping the
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