南方公司如何改变为智能家居行业

南方公司的Smart communities®如何改变为智能家居行业

Energy efficiency starts in the home. In Alabama and Georgia, the future looks brighter than ever, thanks to Smart Neighborhood initiatives that two of Southern Company’s subsidiaries, Alabama Power and Georgia Power, have launched. These smart homes provide customers with state-of-the-art home construction, distributed energy resources and smart home appliances and technologies.

能效始于家庭。在阿拉巴马州和乔治亚州，由于南方电力公司的两家子公司阿拉巴马电力公司和乔治亚电力公司推出了“智能社区”计划，未来看起来比以往任何时候都更加光明。这些智能家居为客户提供最先进的住宅建设、分布式能源、智能家电和技术。

The Smart Neighborhoods – located in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover and Atlanta’s upper Westside – were built as part of Southern Company’s research initiative to determine what homes and smart home automation will look like in 2040. The homes in these communities are among the most energy-efficient in the country, with improved reliability, increased use of distributed energy resources and decreased operating costs.

这些智能小区位于伯明翰郊区胡佛和亚特兰大上西区，是南方公司研究计划的一部分，目的是确定2040年家庭和智能家居自动化将会是什么样子。这些社区的房屋是全国最节能的房屋之一，可靠性得到提高，分布式能源的使用增加，运营成本降低。

Each home is “built with future energy codes and standards in mind,” said Latanza Adjei, Georgia Power VP of sales and marketing, adding that they are equipped with “all of the things it takes to make sure that these homes use less energy than most of the homes around.”

佐治亚电力公司销售和营销副总裁拉坦莎·阿德吉(Latanza Adjei)说，每栋房屋都“考虑到未来的能源法规和标准”，并补充说，他们配备了“所有能确保这些房屋比周围大多数房屋使用更少能源的东西”。

Those items include either a community-scale microgrid or rooftop solar panels and battery energy storage, as well as a super-tight building envelope, comprehensive duct-sealing, triple-pane windows, a radiant barrier roof decking, smart thermostats, connected and controllable heat pump water heaters, air-source heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers. The homes’ automation and security packages include smart door locks, lights and voice control.

这些项目包括社区规模的微电网或屋顶太阳能电池板和电池储能，以及超紧密的建筑围护结构、全面的管道密封、三窗格窗户、辐射屏障屋顶甲板、智能恒温器、连接和可控的热泵热水器、空气源热泵和电动汽车充电器。这些家庭的自动化和安全设备包括智能门锁、电灯和语音控制。

And that’s just on the inside. At Reynolds Landing, the Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood has a community-scale microgrid. Designed, engineered and deployed by PowerSecure, it’s the first-of-its-kind in the Southeast and helps ensure resiliency, which means that even when the traditional grid is offline, the homes can be powered by PowerSecure.

这只是在里面。在雷诺兹着陆，阿拉巴马州电力智能社区有一个社区规模的微电网。它由PowerSecure设计部署，是东南部第一个此类设备，有助于确保弹性，这意味着即使传统电网离线，家庭也可以使用PowerSecure供电。

The features “seamlessly enhance the experience of our customers in their everyday lives,” said Todd Rath, Alabama Power marketing services director.

阿拉巴马州电力营销服务总监托德•拉斯(Todd Rath)表示，这些功能“无缝地提升了我们客户在日常生活中的体验”。

“Having the ability to monitor your energy usage at your fingertips definitely makes a huge difference,” said Hannah Kennedy, a resident of Reynolds Landing.

雷诺兹兰丁的居民汉娜肯尼迪(Hannah Kennedy)说:“用指尖就能监测你的能源使用情况，这肯定会带来很大的不同。”

Jim Leverette, Southern Company research and development engineer, said “the initiative at its heart is a research project to understand the future of energy.”

南方公司研发工程师吉姆•莱弗里特(Jim Leverette)表示:“该计划的核心是一个了解能源未来的研究项目。”

“By incorporating high-performance homes, smart technology, rooftop solar and microgrids, we are able to understand how the interactions of all these things may change the way we serve our customers in the future,” he said.

他说:“通过整合高性能住宅、智能技术、屋顶太阳能和微电网，我们能够理解所有这些因素的相互作用将如何改变我们未来为客户服务的方式。”