Features
- Validate application layer interoperability between ZigBee, Wi-Fi and HomePlug Smart Energy Profile 2.0 enabled devices
- Pre-certification conformance test cases
- Simulations of real devices and their behavioral characteristics
Benefits
- Utilities: Confirm device reliability and compliance to SEP 2.0
- Device Manufacturers: Speed time to market and increase customer confidence
- Confirm that SEP 2.0 devices deliver accurate, reliable information
Smart Energy Profile is the leading standard for interoperable products that monitor, control, and automate the delivery and use of energy and water. The Smart Energy Profile standard supports the diverse needs of a global ecosystem of utilities, product manufacturers and government groups, and it gives consumers the information and automation needed to reduce their consumption and save money.
The SEP 2.0 Test System
QualityLogic, an active participant in the development of the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 standard, is developing a test system to validate the interoperability and reliability of smart meters, business and residential energy management devices, and gateways that share energy information with business and residential users via the Smart Energy Profile 2.0 standard. The Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 Test System will benefit the entire Smart Energy Profile 2.0 ecosystem, including device manufacturers, utilities and system integrators.
The SEP 2.0 Test System will include conformance test cases designed to exercise the full breadth of the SEP 2.0 Application Layer Specification, synthetic simulations of SEP 2.0 devices, and actual simulations of real world devices allowing device manufacturers, utilities, and their partners to ensure deployed smart energy devices can interoperate. Test cases will be made available initially over a standard Ethernet IP link, then over various chip and stack combinations of ZigBee, Wi-Fi and HomePlug.
During the early stages of Smart Energy Profile 2.0 adoption, synthetic device simulations may be the only effective way to validate interoperability, as few other products will be on the market. As the market matures and large numbers of smart energy devices are released, actual simulations of real-world devices become the only practical way to test interoperability over a wide range of devices without the logistical nightmare of physically obtaining and setting up real devices.
The test suite is designed for use by:
- utilities to confirm device reliability and compliance to grid standards;
- device manufacturers to speed time to market and increase confidence in their offerings to business, residential and utility customers; and
- all parties to confirm that smart energy devices deliver accurate and reliable information from the utility to customers, and vice versa.
The Smart Energy Profile 2.0 Test System will be the first in a series of interoperability tests for devices connected to a smarter grid.
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