Home Appliance Automation in Renewable Energy Communities: Haier Europe and SmartDHOME Sign Agreement for Initial Pilot Projects
Milan, November 15, 2023 – Haier Europe – part of Haier Smart Home, the world's No. 1 company in the large home appliances sector* – and SmartDHOME – a company that has been developing innovative energy consumption monitoring solutions for over 12 years – have signed an agreement to develop the market for Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and Collective Self-Consumption Groups (CSCGs).
This collaboration will enable the integration of Haier Europe’s market-leading appliances into SmartDHOME's MyVirtuoso Home and Contact Pro CER platforms.
Specifically, the partnership focuses on the joint development of solutions to offer the emerging REC and CSCG markets platforms capable of automating the operation of Haier Europe’s appliances, air conditioning, electric charging, and energy storage systems based on the actual availability of energy produced by renewable energy systems.
The collaboration involves integrating a wide range of connected appliances from Candy, Hoover, and Haier – including washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, air conditioners, heat pumps, electric charging systems, photovoltaic systems, etc. – with SmartDHOME’s IoT platforms for monitoring and Big Data analytics.
This will allow users to fully benefit from advanced connectivity, enabling, for example, washing or drying cycles to be triggered based on the energy availability from a home's photovoltaic system, or in a broader ecosystem, based on the energy available in the network of a Renewable Energy Community or a Collective Self-Consumption Group. Artificial Intelligence logic will autonomously carry out efficient behaviors aimed at saving energy.
Haier Europe Group appliances – Candy, Hoover, and Haier – will thus be operable according to user preferences, enabling smarter and more personalized management, optimizing energy use, and offering customers an unprecedented experience in terms of convenience, energy efficiency, and automation. Operating modes can be managed through the MyVirtuoso Home Energy Management System and the Contact Pro CER platform. The former is already present in thousands of Italian households, while the latter is already in use in the first Renewable Energy Communities.
Optimization will be made possible thanks to integration with hOn, Haier Europe’s app that manages all the Group’s appliances, with over 7 million users across Europe.
As a pioneer and leader in the IoT world and connected home sector, Haier Europe has built a connectivity ecosystem designed to meet people's everyday needs. The next step has been to expand this connected ecosystem from consumers’ homes to their surrounding environments. The Group’s new projects aim to manage home environments optimized through integrated, all-encompassing smart service platforms, to maximize energy efficiency and broaden well-being, multiplying the potential of intelligent connected home management.
Marco Vicamini, Managing Director di SmartDHOME, stated: "I am very pleased with this collaboration. After many years of trying to involve appliance manufacturers in ambitious energy efficiency, self-consumption, and Renewable Energy Communities projects, we have finally found in Candy Hoover Group a professional, technically skilled partner with cutting-edge technological infrastructure to enable the realization of what will be the first project of its kind in Italy."
Benvenuto Pogliani, Head of Energy Management Ecosystem di Haier Europe commented: "Expanding the hOn ecosystem to include partners like SmartDHOME, capable of managing and optimizing energy communities, is a fundamental step towards achieving goals of maximum efficiency in homes and reduced environmental impact in a simple, immediate, and trackable way," making the end customer and their appliances a key player in the energy transition.
For more information on this partnership and future updates:
haier-europe.com
smartdhome.com.
*Source: Euromonitor International Limited; Consumer Appliances 2023, % unit share, volume sales data 2022
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Haier Europe is part of Haier Smart Home, the world’s No. 1 company in the home appliances sector and one of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Listed on the Shanghai, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong stock exchanges (600690.SH, 690D.DE, and 06690.HK), Haier Smart Home operates on all five continents with 25 industrial parks, 14 R&D centers, and approximately 100,000 employees. In 2022, the company generated revenues of approximately €32.6 billion, with global sales in more than 160 countries. Haier’s vision is to become the global leader in IoT for smart home solutions. It was the first Chinese company to enter the D-Share Market and list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2018, with the aim of promoting its brand and supporting business growth internationally and in Europe, where it markets products under the brands Candy, Hoover, Haier, Rosieres, GE Appliances, and Fisher & Paykel. Haier Europe is headquartered in Brugherio (MB), Italy.
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