Borqs Technologies and SkyCentrics have launched the next generation CTA-2045 ECOPORT communication products. The next-generation products are more price competitive than the current generation products and have better cellular coverage with the use of internal and external antennas.
Borqs and SkyCentrics announced their partnership in 2021. The partnership includes joint research and development, sales, and promotion, as well as Borqs’ investment into SkyCentrics. It will leverage Borqs’ skill in mobile IoT and 5G technologies. Borqs has years of manufacturing experience in making products worldwide, and has manufactured products for the U.S. mobile operators and Fortune 500 companies.
SkyCentrics is trained in CTA-2045 and demand response technologies and will be responsible for the CTA-2045 software, ECOPORT certification, and cloud functionality with its Demand Response Energy and Asset Management (DREAM) platform.
The initial release of the next generation ECOPORT will start commercial shipment in Q3 in 2023, and both companies forecast demand for the products. “I am very pleased that with after one year of development, we’ve successfully developed a suite of very competitive products for the very promising CTA-2045 ECOPORT markets. Together with SkyCentrics, we’ve defined a roadmap for other products which we plan to launch in the latter part of this year as well,” says Pat Chan, CEO of Borqs Technologies.
“With Borqs, we have found a high-quality hardware design and manufacturing partner, which allows us to focus on the software that orchestrates electrical machines in buildings to sync their energy usage to grid prices and carbon emissions. This will enable the grid to support a much larger penetration of intermittent renewable energy, and lower costs for all rate payers,” says Tristan de Frondeville, CEO of SkyCentrics.
A smart city uses various types of electronic methods and sensors to collect data to gain insights in the management and operation of grid loads in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness. As a start in the development of a smart city, mobile connected CTA-2045 devices are chosen by utility companies across the U.S. as the platform for smart management of water heaters, pool pumps and other products with EcoPorts. Historically, all water heaters were ‘dumb,’ controlled by a thermostat and randomly going on and off.
The new generation of smart water heaters, connected with CTA-2045 communicating modules can optimise their on/off schedule based on each household’s usage pattern, grid prices and carbon emissions. A key component of electrifying everything is ensuring that all the devices that are electric run on clean energy. It is estimated that the energy savings as well as carbon emission reduction by CTA-2045 controlled residential water heaters can produce staggering results, with each one million CTA-2045 equipped water heaters equating to the removal of 100,000 gasoline powered cars from the highways.
Early adoption of CTA-2045 EcoPort enabled water heaters has been underway in low-income multi-family solar and storage communities in Hawaii. Commercial and residential markets in buildings and power grid optimisation is estimated to reach [$154 billion (€140.32 billion)] by the year 2026, according to Verified Market Research in their study “Global building automation system market size by technology, by system, by application, by geographic scope and forecast” (Aug 2020).
SkyCentrics is working with commercial building industrial equipment manufacturers to provide them retrofit kits that will enable their embedded base of existing equipment to be retrofit to have a CTA-2045 EcoPort which will provide an inexpensive way to create the grid interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) that were recently promoted by the Biden administration quoting the “National Roadmap for Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings” report by The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and The Brattle Group.
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