New feature - Maximum peak consumption from smart meter and HW security improvements

SBWF4602 - v1.7.41

Consumers in the Belgian market will be invoices based on their maximum used energy consumption. For those consumers it is easy to reduce their maximum peak to save on their energy bill, as long as they have insights in that maximum peak.

In 2023, Belgian smart meters will support maximum demand objects to indicate the consumers peak usage. NET2GRID provides this data to the consumer in form of a notification so the consumer can act to lower the peak that is currently happening.

Belgian maximum demand objects

The maximum demand objects are extracted from the Belgium smart meters and reported to the platform so the customer can inform and act based on the information. Maximum demand object containing data like:

• Average power so far for the current 15 minute window

• Highest averaged value of the running month so far

• Maximum demands (month peaks) of the closed months

A month peak also called the maximum demand of the month, is defined as the maximum 15 minute average power taken from the grid that month. The averaging is done over fixed intervals, starting and ending every 15 min.

Security

All SmartBridges always had a secure connection with NET2GRID's Insight platform, based on SCoP. From now on, the SBWF4602 also secures the connection with TLS.

The SmartBridge is now even better protected against physical access to the hardware by device encryption.

Firmware versions were always installed in a secure manner, with this release also downloading the version has become even more secure.

Improved

• Fix for connectivity mismatch between SmartBridge and NET2GRID Insights Active causing a SmartBridge disconnection

• Fix for local api token that was introduced in v1.7.14

• BLE is automatically turned on after a WLAN leave command

• When connecting to the platform, BLE notifies the app of an JOIN_SUCCESSFUL