Ember’s Senior Vice President, Skip Ashton, will play an influential role in shaping the nation’s smart grid standards with his recent appointment to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Architecture Committee (SGAC). Ashton will join other industry experts in creating a network reference model for the smart grid, including standards and application profiles.
The honor follows Ashton’s other leadership role within the ZigBee Alliance as chairman of the ZigBee Architecture Review Committee, which helps define the network, security and interoperability specifications of the ZigBee wireless standard.
Ashton was also selected to keynote the 7th annual IEEE Conference on Senor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2010) at the Hyatt Regency in Boston this week. He will address the forum on Tuesday, June 22nd at 9 a.m. on the growth and expansion of “Smart Grids and Sensor Networks” as well as the roadblocks and successes confronting wireless ad-hoc networks.
His presentation will focus on how hype of the long-promised “Internet of Things” is affecting the smart grid market. Beyond the hype, millions of devices will be installed in 2010 with embedded mesh networking. In this talk Ashton draws on his years of experience and expertise to explore the growth and expansion of this market, from proprietary to standard protocols, the roadblocks and successes of the technology and where we can expect these markets to grow in the future. He will also discuss the roles of researchers, developers and regulators in the growth of mesh networks.
About Ember
Ember Corporation (www.ember.com) develops wireless mesh networking technology – chips, software and tools – for Smart Energy, connected homes, and many other monitoring and control applications enabling greener living and work environments. The Boston-based company is a promoter of the ZigBee Alliance with an IC design center in Cambridge, England, an office in Hong Kong and sales channels and distributors worldwide.
ZigBee: Control your world
ZigBee is the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices to work together and enhance everyday life. The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 340 members driving development of ZigBee wireless technology. The Alliance promotes world-wide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer electronic, energy, home, commercial and industrial areas. For more information, visit: www.ZigBee.org.
