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Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities Provides Sustainable Economic Opportunities Through Energy Innovations
Smart Connected Buildings Solution to Transform Energy Demand and Utilization
Jul. 1, 2009 11:30 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/01/09 -- Cisco Live -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today
announced Smart Connected
Buildings as its latest emerging technology, a key component in
delivering on its vision for Smart+Connected Communities, one of 30 key
market adjacencies the company has identified. Smart+Connected
Communities addresses the growing need for sustainable energy to meet the
demand of increasingly urbanized populations by providing a network-enabled
blueprint for successful smart cities of the future that run on networked
information. The solution builds on Cisco's networked sustainability
platform to further utilize the network to increase energy efficiency,
create new tools for 'energy-aware' city management, and enable economic
opportunity and quality of life gains for citizens.
As a key component of delivering on the Smart+Connected Communities vision,
Cisco today announced the availability of the Cisco® Network Building
Mediator, a Smart Connected Buildings solution that provides the
intelligence to interconnect and enable building systems such as heating,
ventilation and cooling (HVAC), lighting, electrical, security, and
renewables over the IP network to build smart and energy-efficient
buildings of the future. This provides operators and owners of these
buildings with new ways of managing how energy is used based on policies
that make sense for occupants.
As the majority of electricity in the US is consumed in offices and
commercial buildings, Cisco believes the network has the potential to
create a significant impact on global energy efficiency and reduction of
Green House Gas emissions by further integrating information technology
into Smart Connected Buildings. By continuing to extend our networked
sustainability platform, Cisco will help accelerate energy innovations over
IP from energy generation across the grid to commercial buildings and all
the way to the home.
Highlights / Key Facts:
- The new Smart Connected Buildings solution, Cisco's latest emerging
technology, aims to enable sustainable energy reduction and the
future-proofing of facilities through a flexible integration of new
technologies that help deliver energy efficiency and environmental
stewardship for Smart+Connected Communities.
- This represents the first Emerging Technology business unit incubated
from Cisco's Globalisation
Centre East in Bangalore, India. The business unit integrates
technologies from Cisco's acquisition of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based
Richards-Zeta in January 2009 with Cisco networking technology and
concurrently develops innovative software solutions for energy
management.
- Sandeep Vij, vice president and general manager, leads the team out of
the Globalisation Center East, reporting to Marthin De Beer, senior vice
president of the Emerging Technologies Group.
- Smart Connected Buildings' first solution, Cisco Network Building
Mediator, provides an extensible architecture to allow building operation
managers to easily monitor, measure and act on energy systems while adding
renewable technologies such as solar, wind and fuel cells as well as
energy-efficiency programs such as automated demand-response programs to
reduce capital and operating expenditures.
- The Cisco Network Building Mediator communicates "southbound" with
building systems using a variety of industry open-system protocols. It
then converts the data to open XML/SOAP Services which connect "northbound"
to applications, utilities, enterprise management systems and cloud
services.
- The Cisco Network Building Mediator extends Cisco EnergyWise technology
to deliver the most comprehensive business energy-management solution,
providing energy monitoring, reporting and saving to more systems and
devices in any building.
- Cisco also announced that more than 20 technology partners will join
the Cisco Development Technology Program for the Mediator in bringing
solutions and services to Smart+Connected Communities.
- In addition, Cisco plans to introduce an Authorized Technology Provider
Program for channel partners and system integrators who will be supporting
sales and services for customers.
- The Cisco Network Building Mediator is orderable now and is available
in two configurations; the Cisco Network Building Mediator 2400 and the
Cisco Network Building Mediator 4800. Pricing starts at USD $4995.
Executive Quotes:
- Marthin De Beer, senior vice president, Emerging Technologies
Group
"Today's announcement of Smart Connected Buildings as Cisco's latest
Emerging Technology highlights the strength of our internal innovation
engine for identifying and developing solutions in key market adjacencies.
Our aim is to create a new set of systems and solutions that take the
network and extend the power of the platform to deliver sustainable energy
management from information technology and commercial buildings all the way
through to smart grid and the home."
- Wim Elfrink, chief globalisation officer and executive vice
president, Cisco Services
"Over the next three to five years, as more people around the world migrate
to urban centres, 3 billion individuals around the world will connect to
the Internet. Cisco envisages a future where successful communities and
cities will run on networked information, and where information technology
will help the world better manage its energy and environmental challenges.
Cities of the future, and many innovative cities now, are addressing the
issues and opportunities of this new world by thinking about the network as
the platform for economic development, better city management and an
improved quality of life for citizens. Everything connected to the network
in these smart+connected communities can be greener."
- David Shroyer, controls engineer, NetApp
"Within 20 minutes of the demand-response signal from the utility, the
Cisco Network Building Mediator reduces lighting by 50 percent and raises
the temperature set point by four degrees, shedding 1.1 megawatts. In
conjunction with other systems, the Cisco solution has helped us reduce
energy consumption in our Sunnyvale location by 18 million kilowatt hours
in 18 months. We have reduced our carbon footprint and have saved an
estimated $2 million in energy costs."
- Peter Kelley-Detwiler, SVP, Demand Response, Constellation Energy
Group Inc.
"We have created a load-response solution in which the customers get paid
for curtailing their consumption during the period of high or peak demand
on their systems. The way we help them is we take the Cisco Network
Building Mediator and use that to coordinate with the building and send a
signal to automatically shut down systems."
- Norm Campbell, manager, Metering Systems, Simon Property
Group
"Organizing our energy and building systems required an equally dynamic
infrastructure to coordinate meter data, EMS and external inputs in unison.
The Cisco Network Building Mediator is such a platform and enables us to
pursue energy efficiency, load response and sustainability while
maintaining comfort for our tenants and customers."
- Achuthan Nair, vice president and business head, Wipro
Technologies
"Cisco Network Building Mediator technology has an open approach in a
pre-dominantly multi protocol and proprietary area. We have been able to
innovatively leverage it to enable management of non-IP systems, thus
bringing the rigor of IT service management to non-IT equipment. This
brings tremendous value to our customers by lowering their energy
consumption and reducing the service costs."
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