Connecting homes of the future with smart meters

Secure Meters, a leading manufacturer of smart energy metering and solutions, approached us with the idea of developing a smart in-home display that would show energy consumption and related cost information to assist end users in managing their energy usage and costs as part of the roll out of Smart Metering in Great Britain.

The smart metering challenge and the Anders solution

They wanted to create a device that would collect and smartly display energy usage information, using a wireless connection (via a Home Area Network), and offer on the device’s touch screen an instant visibility of energy consumption.

Working together, we provided them a custom monochrome LCD with Resistive Touch Panel to ensure a smooth and simple navigation for the user. For visibility in either low or high ambient light conditions, we developed a backlit high resolution and high contrast monochrome graphical display. These are some of the many customisable aspects of a monochrome display that we can offer.

Today, the Pipit 500 from Smart Meters helps homes to save up to 12% of energy bills by providing alerts and displaying hourly, weekly, monthly and yearly data and graphics on energy usage trends of the household, as well as supporting prepayment functionality.

“The Governments vision is for everyone to use energy more efficiently, by seeing what they are using and what the cost of that usage is, and to see in real time the affect that changing their consumption has on cost. We at Secure Meters having been providing such displays that provide this type of information for years.

Simple to use display to engage customers