Description du projet
Un nouveau disjoncteur à l’état solide sur la voie de la commercialisation
Si la part des énergies renouvelables dans la production d’électricité augmente au fil du temps, il est difficile d’assurer l’adéquation entre l’offre et la demande en raison de leur nature intermittente. Malgré les investissements importants consentis dans les compteurs intelligents, ces dispositifs présentent une capacité limitée à l’heure de collecter suffisamment de données pour les envoyer au service public, de permettre aux ménages d’avoir une bonne maîtrise de leur consommation d’énergie et de mettre en œuvre une gestion de la demande. La société suédoise Blixt Tech a dévoilé un disjoncteur à l’état solide, baptisé DigiBreaker, qui contribue à relever les défis posés par les compteurs intelligents. Cette technologie transforme une boîte à fusibles en un smartphone, en collectant et en communiquant les données de consommation en électricité en temps réel. Le projet DigiBreakers, financé par l’UE, vise à commercialiser cette technologie et examiner des débouchés commerciaux.
Objectif
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%.
Champ scientifique
- 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
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
111 57 STOCKHOLM
Suède
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.