Descripción del proyecto
Un novedoso disyuntor de estado sólido camino a la comercialización
La proporción de renovables en la generación eléctrica aumenta con el tiempo, pero su naturaleza intermitente dificulta adecuar la oferta y la demanda de electricidad. A pesar de las grandes cantidades de dinero invertidas en los contadores inteligentes, estos dispositivos tienen una capacidad limitada para recopilar y enviar suficientes datos a las empresas, ofrecer a los hogares un mayor control sobre su consumo energético e implementar el lado de gestión de la demanda. La empresa Blixt Tech, con sede en Suecia, ha desvelado un disyuntor de estado sólido llamado DigiBreakers que sirve para superar los retos asociados a los contadores inteligentes. La tecnología convierte el cuadro de cortocircuitos en un teléfono inteligente, ya que recopila y comunica en tiempo real datos sobre el consumo de electricidad. El proyecto DigiBreakers, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende comercializar la tecnología y explorar oportunidades empresariales.
Objetivo
Problem
The integration of more renewable energy into the grid, creating highly variable, unpredictable and distributed energy production, uneven load and peak demand and transmission losses create significant challenges for utilities to effectively guarantee energy supply.
Despite the investing billions of euros in Smart Meters, it is clear they are not the solution. They only collect limited amounts of data for the utility, do not give households greater control of their energy use, and cannot implement demand side management.
Solution – Bl!xt DigiBreaker
DigiBreaker turns your fuse box into a smartphone, collecting and communicating rich, real time electricity usage data as it passes through the circuit breaker. All the time while maintaining the core function of a circuit breaker, which is to interrupt current flow when there is a fault in the system. DigiBreaker breaks 1000 times faster and is more secure than the mechanical devices.
DigiBreaker offers the following functionality:
• Enables remote demand side management for the utility.
• Direct two-way communication between the utility and the household.
• An integrated controller that measures and collects detailed energy usage.
• Can be controlled remotely via smart phone or computer.
Project
The aim of the phase 1 project is to improve our understanding of the value DigiBreaker holds for our target customer and clearly map out the route to market. In phase 2 we envisage to scale up the technology, establish a strategy for compliance in Europe, run pilots with utilities and build a commercial and operational strategic plan to demonstrate these aspects to utilities on a large scale.
Impact & Market
We estimate that DigiBreakers could replace traditional circuit breakers and fuses, which will have an estimated market size of over 27 billion € by 2020. Reaching 5% of this market by 2025 would provide us with returns of over 60M€ and an IRR of 81%.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemshome automation
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
111 57 STOCKHOLM
Suecia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.