The LiveWire Project final report

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/569113· OSTI ID:569113

Brown, C D; Nelson, T T ^[1]; Kelly, J C; Dominguez, H A ^[2]

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1. Enova Technology, San Diego, CA (United States)
2. Paragon Consulting Services, La Verne, CA (United States)

Utilities across the US have begun pilot testing a variety of hardware and software products to develop a two-way communications system between themselves and their customers. Their purpose is to reduce utility operating costs and to provide new and improved services for customers in light of pending changes in the electric industry being brought about by deregulation. A consortium including utilities, national labs, consultants, and contractors, with the support of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), initiated a project that utilized a hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) wide-area network integrated with a CEBus based local area network within the customers home. The system combined energy consumption data taken within the home, and home automation features to provide a suite of energy management services for residential customers. The information was transferred via the Internet through the HFC network, and presented to the customer on their personal computer. This final project report discusses the design, prototype testing, and system deployment planning of the energy management system.

• Research Organization: Enova Technology, San Diego, CA (United States); Paragon Consulting Services, La Verne, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-96ER25297
• OSTI ID: 569113
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/25297-T1; ON: DE98002731; TRN: AHC29805%%138
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Oct 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
99 MATHEMATICS
COMPUTERS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
MANAGEMENT
LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
PROGRESS REPORT
DEREGULATION
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
OPERATING COST
INTERNET
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS