Navetas launches Smart Hub with integral ISE appliance monitoring technology

30 September 2009

Navetas Energy Management Ltd is pleased to announce the launch of the Navetas Zeo Smart Hub. The Zeo Smart Hub delivers a new approach to smart metering, providing a communications gateway and functional console for electricity, gas and water metering. The Hub interfaces with current basic certified meters available from meter manufacturers, thereby offering an extremely low cost and effective smart metering solution.

The Navetas Zeo Hub incorporates non intrusive appliance monitoring technology, developed by Intelligent Sustainable Energy (ISE), a spin out company formed between Navetas Energy Management and the University of Oxford, as an optional specification. Once the ISE technology is integrated into the Navetas Zeo Hub, consumers will be able to see real-time energy usage information by appliance from an in-home display. Consumers will also be able to track their usage over days, weeks and months, generating itemised energy bills for the first time, similar to those provided by the telecommunications industry to consumers for a number of years.

Using patented artificial intelligence and signal processing techniques developed over a number of years at the University of Oxford, the ISE system analyses the electricity supply and calculates the power consumption of each appliance without the need for any other sensors providing consumers with real time energy information by appliance.

The Navetas Zeo Hub is intelligently designed to deliver a user friendly display; secure GPRS communications; credit, prepayment and pay as you go applications; the ability to handle complex time of use tariffs; remotely configurable and is easy and low cost to install.

Additionally, as research and development in new smart metering and smart grid applications has never been greater, to anticipate future requirements Navetas has made available two upgrade ports that allow for simple 'plug in' modules to be easily fitted by consumers for new applications as standard.

Chris Saunders, Navetas Chief Executive said;

The Navetas Zeo Hub delivers a real alternative to existing smart meters currently on the market and will provide a new low cost option for smart metering. Also with the integration of the ISE technology we have developed a product that is much more advanced than anything else on the market. We believe that once seen, energy suppliers will want to deploy the Navetas Zeo Hub and consumers will want to have one in their homes so they can enjoy the major benefits.

Notes to Editors

Navetas focus is on bringing innovation to the energy supply industry. Its value lies in its deep understanding of the energy supply market, its unique experience in Smart Metering, and its independence. Navetas invests to bring new technologies and services to market. It seeks to identify opportunities and looks for the right combination of expertise and technology to solve problems to bring those opportunities to fruition.

Navetas people have well over a decade's experience in energy management. Navetas is set to deliver the innovative and tailored services in the fields of energy measurement, energy procurement and energy conservation, the focused activity of its core areas of business operation.

ISE is a spin out company formed between Navetas Energy Management Ltd and the University of Oxford in November 2008.ISE is the creator of revolutionary technologies aimed at helping people to reduce and manage their energy consumption.

The core of the ISE solution is the intelligent energy monitor which connects to the energy supply at a single point. Using patented artificial intelligence and signal process techniques developed over a number of years at Oxford University, the system analyses the electricity supply and calculates the power consumption of each appliance without the need for any other sensors. This information can then be communicated to the consumer through a variety of methods including in-home displays, web portals and itemised billing services.

The Government has recently announced that it intends for all homes in the UK to be fitted with smart meters by 2020.

For further information please call Nick Wellington on 01394 388 500 or 07989 176964. You can also email at nick.wellington@navetas.com