Japanese carmaker Honda unveiled this week a house the company has built in the city of Saitama to demonstrate its ‘smart home’ system.
The Honda Smart Home System (HSHS) controls in-house energy supply and demand, helping manage both the generation and consumption of energy, as well as integrating the use of electric vehicles.
The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS thin-film solar cell panels, a home battery unit (rechargeable battery), household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system, and the Smart e Mix Manager. The Smart e Mix Manager, the core of the HSHS, is a comprehensive energy management device, which applies optimal control to electricity supplied from the commercial grid and generated by each energy device that composes the system. The Smart e Mix Manager reduces CO2 emissions from the home and, at the same time, provides a backup supply of electricity, so that the house can be self-sufficient in the event of a power outage or disaster.
The company has also signed an agreement with the city’s E-KIZUNA Project, which will see three houses built in the vicinity of Saitama University equipped with HSHS to demonstrate smart community living.
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