Volts Making sure smart devices can talk to each other and the grid
Mar 14, 2025
Devrim Celal, the Chief Marketing and Flexibility Officer at Kraken Energy, discusses the Mercury Consortium's mission to build standards for smart devices. He highlights how these standards can prevent issues if a manufacturer goes out of business, ensuring your EV charger or heat pump remains functional. The conversation delves into the importance of interoperability among devices, the innovative technologies reshaping energy management, and how these efforts will optimize energy usage in homes and enhance communication with the grid.
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Challenge of Device Interoperability
- Smart home energy devices from different manufacturers may fail to work together efficiently without common standards.
- Proprietary software risks devices becoming useless if the manufacturer disappears, posing grid reliability challenges.
Mercury Consortium Purpose
- Mercury Consortium formed by major utilities and manufacturers to create common interconnection protocols.
- Their goal is to ensure smart devices operate reliably and communicate effectively with the grid.
Kraken Flex Device Management
- Kraken Flex manages around 400,000 devices totaling 1.6 GW power flexible in real time.
- This allows precise load adjustments to manage network constraints or increase renewable usage efficiently.