How a household appliance can work as a vitality sensor of elderly people.

1. Smart objects and quality
of life services for Active
Healthy Ageing
Jade Workshop
Grenoble, 6th- 9th March 2012
Valerio Aisa
Grenoble, 6th– 9th March 2012

2. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy aging
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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3. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy aging
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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4. Our Company
 Presence: 24 subsidiaries all over the world
 Annual Turnover: 2.9 billion euro
 Main Brands: Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston, Scholtès
 Product Lines: Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers,
dryers, freezers, cookers, hoods, ovens and
hobs. Free standing, Built In.
 Production: 16 plants
 Employees: 16,000
 Listing: Listed on Milan Stock Exchange since 1987
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5. Our History
Little Swan*
Hotpoint
Stinol 05
New World 02
Pekel
Star 00
Scholtès 95
Fab 92
Por. 89
Indesit
Philco 88
Smeg 87
Fri-Sado 86
Colston 82
77 80
75
Incorporation
of Merloni Elettrodomestici
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6. Our Presence - Industrial Footprint
 16 Factories in Europe
• UK: Dryers
• Italy: Dishwashing, Cooling, Washing, Built-in
Cooking
• Poland: Cooling, Cookers; Washing,
Dishwashing
• Turkey: Cooling
• Russia: Cooling, Washing
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7. Our Presence - Commercial Offices
 24 Subsidiaries all over the world
 Extra-EU:
• Singapore
• Shanghai
• Dubai
• Buenos Aires
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8. Our brands
We work, you play Our ideas, your home. The taste of perfection
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9. Our STRATEGIC AXIS
Clean Tech Minimize the use of resources to reduce the
Eco-footprint in term of product and process
User Centered Be Closer to the Customer Needs
Smartness Self-adapt to dynamic conditions and cooperate
in open ecosystems
Process Innovation Innovation and technology improvements in
design and manufacturing
Product Technical Behind the scene improvements: high impact on
Improvement products, not directly visible to the consumer
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10. Our STRATEGIC AXIS: Smartness
Leon@rdo
Our reputation in NETWORKING (& SMART GRID)
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11. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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12. Connected Appliances: Why?
1. For increasing energy efficiency (smart grid)
• through a direct dialog with utilities, based on suitable
“application profiles” and communication technologies
• indirectly, by embedding “Dynamic Demand Control” (DDC)
function inside household appliances
2. For accessing new web based services
• remote monitoring and control
• remote assistance and preventive maintenance
• “smart objects for active healthy ageing”: connected appliances
able to monitor the “vitality” of the users working as “health-care
devices”
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13. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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14. Connected Appliances: main drivers
internet
telemedicine
system smart grid
social issues Gateway energy issues
(population is ageing) (need to increase efficiency)
(web services)
AAL
local “Vitality” Energy
database Monitor Manager
home network
smart appliances
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15. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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16. Household Appliances as “vitality” sensors
Each appliance detects user interactions
and communicates these events to a Telecare
device capable of obtaining information on /Telemedicine
his/her habits and to detect and notify any System
abnormal behavior.
User “vitality” • daily behavior
local
• user habits
database monitor • habits changes
Medical
sensors
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17. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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18. Connectivity: technical trends
 According to AHAM (USA) assessment, the highest
scored standards for home applications are:
• Media and Network layers: Wi-Fi, ZigBee, HomePlug
• Application layers: Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (IP based)
 Energy@home profile (IT): ZigBee Home Automation 1.2
 Indesit approach : ZigBee and “Power Modulation” (PM)
1) High-end Products: ZigBee node inside the appliance
2) Medium range & Low-end Products: use of PM technology
Smart Adapter
(Smart Plug)
PM
SA
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19. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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20. Connectivity: Indesit approach
A : High-end appliance with ZigBee node
B,C : Standard appliances with PM tech.
Home Gateway
C Smart Socket
HAN
(Home Area Network)
PM
A B Smart Adapter
(Smart Plug)
Smart Appliance
High-end appliance
with ZigBee node inside PM
SA
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21. Communication system based on PM Technology
PM = Power Modulation technology
Smart Plug Smart Appliance
Thanks to PM Technology, a
Communication node RX200 digital household appliance is
(e.g. ZigBee , WiFi , PLC , ...)
microcontroller able to communicate, through
AFE CPU its power cable, by using its
Power PM
Modulation PMI
micro-
AFE
PMI
peripheral native control system, without
controller
adding any extra cost!
SA A specific silicon peripheral
(PMI = Power Modulation
Smart Interface) has been
Adapter implemented by Renesas on
RX200 microcontroller.
Digital Appliances
SA Power Modulation
29 March 2010: Indesit has
signed a free license agreement
with Renesas in order to liberalize
PM technology.
Home Network
(e.g.: Zigbee)
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22. Renesas RX200 microcontroller family
Higher performance, greater code efficiency, lower Peripheral functions have been ingeniously designed
power consumption, more integration have been to enable easy compliance to IEC 60730, which is
achieved, while providing legacy, enhanced and required by home appliances in Europe, and the
new peripheral functions for many applications. realization of products with high safety capabilities.
SOURCE: Renesas RX2Z0 Group , RX200 series, Hardware User’s Manual (preliminary specification Rev. 045 Sep 2011), pag. 1193-1240
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23. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Opening the market to new services
• Conclusion
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24. Opening the market to new services
Indesit PM technology allows a standard household appliance to
communicate at no cost, therefore it is suitable for mass production
Indesit strategy about PM: liberalization for opening the
market to new services based on connectivity
• Development of PMI (Power Modulation Interface) for microcontrollers
• PMI implementation on silicon by Japanese Renesas
• Free (non exclusive) license agreement between Indesit and Renesas
• A free license of PMI is available for any other manufacturer of microcontrollers
 Indesit will adopt PM technology on mass production in two years
 Any other manufacturer of household appliance can freely use PM
technology (no royalties to pay to Indesit)
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25. Agenda
• Indesit Company Introduction
• Connected Appliances: why?
• Who are the drivers?
• Smart objects for active healthy ageing
• Connectivity: technical trends
• Indesit approach to connectivity
• Indesit Business Model
• Conclusion
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26. Offer of new services coming from standard appliances
internet
telemedicine
system smart grid
Gateway
(web services)
AAL
local “Vitality” Energy
database Monitor Manager
home network
standard appliances
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