The 24th Forum of the ECHONET Consortium was held at the Plaza Industry Ohta, Ohta-ku, Tokyo on 30th June 2010. More than 80 people participated from MIC and related organizations as well as 18 Member Companies and exchanged technical information actively.This Forum focused on reports of Smart House Demonstration Project of METI. Mr. Hirata, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., the project coordinator, and Mr. Yoshida, Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd., who formulated a trial demonstration house, made invited speeches. Hitachi, Ltd. and IBM Japan, Ltd. made speeches on the project reports at the Members Technology Introduction Session.
As activities of the ECHONET Consortium, an overseas research report of Smart Grid & Smart House in the USA in May, a current status of improving the ECHONET Specification, a rental system of the Development Assist Tool for Home Network compliant with the ECHONET Specification were introduced.
The following contents were lectured.
Operation Plan for Fiscal Year 2010
Invited Speech 1: Smart House Demonstration Project of FY2009, METI – Final Report –
Invited Speech 2: Proposal of Housing API based on ECHONET Protocol
Charge-free Rental of ECHONET Development Assist Tool
Overseas Research Report on Smart Grid Smart House in the USA
Enhancement of the ECHONET Specification and its Future Evolution
Improvement of Device Object System
Report on IPv6 Compatible Specification of ECHONET
On “Smarter House” and “Coalition” of IBM, Contributing to Smart Community Realization
Household Energy Management System Foundation to be Applied to Existing Houses
Development Assist Tool Demonstration Compliant with ECHONET
