Energy supplier Eneco wants to this year are ‘smart’ thermostat and power meter Show also to customers of other energy providers sell. In addition, Show support for households with solar panels and the system is now compatible with district heating.
Eneco had on Wednesday to Tweakers know that the power company the number of subscribers for his Tone control quite a wants to increase. Therefore Eneco in the course of this year, the Show also will offer to consumers that electricity and gas decrease with a different energy supplier.
When this opportunity for non-customers exactly will be available, is not yet clear. Was Eneco los that the company is committed to a million Show-subscribers in 2017, thanks to the upcoming rollout of smart energy meters. Currently, there are slightly more than 100,000 subscriptions by Eneco-customers closed. Including installation, the cost of the Show for Eneco-customers 275 euro together with 3,50 euro monthly subscription. What are the prices for non-Eneco-customers will eventually be, is still not clear.
Show will thanks to several updates, new features and user applications. One of these is support for solar energy. Households with solar panels can after a firmware update in march-released, it now includes the yield of their photovoltaic system monitors. In addition, the revenue is in euros on the display, and there are charts available for the revenue also over longer periods of time to be able to monitor. To the generated amount of solar power to be able to determine should there be a module between the inverter and the meter box to be placed. In addition to the upcoming support for solar energy, will Show now can be used in households that use district heating.
Eneco wants to be at the end of april a ‘coach’ release. This feature requires the consumer tips on energy conservation. In the first instance, the system will be generic tips, but in the longer term, the Show-user bespaartips ‘tailor-made’ received. In addition, Eneco a link with its own maintenance service Ketelcomfort. So can Show how to determine if a boiler needs maintenance. This is, however, a boiler is needed that is compatible with the OpenTherm communication protocol.
The energy supplier has more plans. In the third quarter of this year should Show can also communicate with smoke detectors. Quby, the company that provides the software and hardware for Tone develops, has plans to yet to bring sensors the indoor air and the air quality mapping.
The Show platform will be in the next update to switch to a new software-based. Currently runs on top of the Linux kernel have a Flash runtime, but Quby has made the switch to the Qt4 toolkit. According to Arjen Noorbergen of Quby the interface will Show, which is powered by a 400MHz ARM-soc, noticeably smoother running. Furthermore, Quby the graphical interface after the switch.
Eneco and Quby consider new hardware for the Show. In particular, the company wants the resistive touchscreen replaced by a capacitive type. The viewing angle can be improved. Also, it is considered to an nfc-module into the Show. Probably will be an improved Show until the end of 2016 on the market.
For the Show to expand further come Quby and Eneco soon with an api and sdk. It will also Eneco in march, a hackathon organised on the basis of the api for new applications to try out. The energy supplier claims that his Show-platform strong focus on user privacy, and that a number of rules will impose, for example, the developers of mobile apps. Moreover, according to Eneco that user data in principle only stored locally on the Display device, and only with the permission of the customer also on the servers of the Quby is stored. This users data is encrypted and according to the energy supplier, not with other parties shared or sold.