Quarterly Activity Report

Activity report FY2024

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ECHONET Consortium activity report (FY2024 2Q)

We have announced the revision of the certification registration fee for ECHONET Lite Standard Conformance Certification and Application Communication Interface Specification Conformance Certification System. The new certification registration fee will apply to certification applications submitted to a certification body on or after October 1, 2024.

The 21st ECHONET Forum was held on July 4, 2024, with speeches from Masaki Umejima, Convener of the Smart Energy Development Plan of the International Electrotechnical Commission System Committee, and Akira Ishida, Director of the New Business and Standardization Promotion Department of the Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association. In addition, the three member companies introduced their technologies, and the ECHONET Consortium’s activity plan for FY2024 including the revision of the certification registration fee was introduced.

The 31st Plug Fest was held from September 5th to 6th at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology HEMS Interoperability Test Center (with remote participation via VPN), with the “Multi-input PCS Class” as the highlight device, and members from 4 companies and 4 teams participated.

We have released “Guidance for Service Linkage Using ECHONET Lite Web API Ver. 1.00,” which summarizes methods for linking multiple clouds to integrate with services.

The 11th regular general meeting was held on June 24th, 2024. The FY2023 activity report, the FY2024 business plan and the revenues & expenditures budget plan were reported, and the financial statements for FY2023, appointments of 3 board members, appointment of 1 auditor and revision of Regulations on Membership Dues were approved and passed.

With the expiration of his term, the representative director of the ECHONET Consortium has been replaced by Katsuhiko Hiramatsu (Panasonic Corporation). We would also like to inform you that the managing director has been replaced by Kenji Shiraishi (ECHONET Consortium secretariat).

We compiled the number of units shipped for FY2023 reported by our member companies and reported on our website that the cumulative number of units shipped by the end of FY2023 would reach approximately 150 million units.

We aim to establish a certification structure and authentication system so that ECHONET Lite Web APIs can be smoothly adopted in the market.

English version of “between low-voltage smart electric energy meters and controllers Ver.1.10”, “between high-voltage smart electric energy meters and EMS controllers Ver.1.01” and “between bidirectional high-voltage smart electric energy meters and controllers Ver.1.00” were release to the public. (May 2024)

“Detailed Requirements for ECHONET Device objects Release R rev.2” that added property values to the “Electric Vehicle Charger Class.” was released to the public. (April 2024)
English version of “Detailed Requirements for ECHONET Device objects Release R” was released to the public. (April 2024)
English version of “Detailed Requirements for ECHONET Device objects Release R rev.1” was released to the public. (May 2024)
English version of “Detailed Requirements for ECHONET Device objects Release R rev21” was released to the public. (June 2024)

“AIF Certification Test Tool for other devices Ver.2.1.0” which includes updated test procedures and scenarios for residential solar power generation and storage batteries, has been released exclusively to members. (June 2024)

We have released to the public “Matter ECHONET Lite Bridge Application Examples 1st Edition,” which outlines the interoperability between Matter devices and ECHONET Lite devices. (June 2024)

We have released to the public “CHAdeMO-ECHONET Lite Cooperation Guidelines Ver.1.10” which describes the conversion and standardization guidelines for automotive battery-related properties between CHAdeMO and ECHONET Lite. (June 2024)