Watteco's module for energy management and smart plug applications will be exhibited at Platt European Smart Grid Strategies Conference
Watteco (www.watteco.com), a french System on Chip (SoC) manufacturer of "no new wire" Power Line Communication (PLC) modems for energy efficiency and intelligent home control applications, today launched one of the first home energy command and control modules to support the development of a two-way, end-to-end communications fabric for the world's electricity system based on Internet Protocol (IP) standards. The company has begun shipping a version of its Watt Pulse Communications (WPCtm) PLC product, the WPC-IP that supports the IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) protocol for home energy management, smart plug, smart metering and other smart grid applications.