Smart Appliances Guide

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Connected Smart Appliances - Gen III
GENERAL INFORMATION
Connected Appliance Technology Overview
What Is Smart Grid?
SmartGrid.gov denes Smart Grid as a developing network of
new technologies, equipment, and controls working together to
respond immediately to our 21st century demand for electricty.
The basic concept of Smart Grid is to add monitoring, analysis,
control, and communicaon capabilies to the naonal
electrical delivery system to maximize the throughput of the
system while reducing the energy consumpon. The Smart
Grid will allow ulies to move electricity around the system
eciency and economically. It will also allow the homeowner
and business to use electricity economically. For example, you
may want to keep your house set at 75° F (24° C) in the summer
me when prices are low, but you may be willing to increase
your thermostat to 78° F (25.5° C) if prices are high. Similarly,
you may want to dry your clothes for 5 cents per kilowa-hour
at 9:00 in the evening instead of 15 cents per kilowa-hour at
2:00 in the aernoon. You will have the choice and exibility to
manage your electrical use while minimizing your costs.
What is a Connected Appliance?
Connected appliances will be capable of delivering targeted
energy eciency, through substanal curtailment of energy
consumpon at the precise and varying mes when the
eciency and environmental benets are greatest and
most needed. Addionally, Whirlpool Connected Appliances
have the ability to communicate with the consumer via
smartphone, tablet or laptop using wireless (WiFi) technology,
allowing the consumer to control and manage them. For
example, the refrigerator will let you know when it’s me to
change the water lter, or the washer will tell you how many
minutes are remaining unl it’s nished.
The Whirlpool Smart Device Network
The Whirlpool Smart Device Network (WSDN) consists of a
Home Area Network (HAN), Internet, and Energy & Ulity
Domain. The WiFi Module is part of the Home Area Network
whose main funcon is to provide connecvity for the Smart
Appliances to the Internet. See Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Whirlpool Smart Device Network
HOME AREA NETWORK
INTERNET DOMAIN
ENERGY &
UTILITY
DOMAIN
Home Internet
Router
Smart Grid
Ulies
IHD
Proprietary Protocol
over the Internet
Connected Appliances
Whirlpool
Cloud
WiFi
Smart Grid Event
A Smart Grid event occurs when the ulity company is under
high energy use on the electric grid.
Connected Smart Appliances can adjust or delay certain
funcons to reduce energy use during these events.
Smart Delay:
When a Smart Delay is acve and a consumer starts a cycle,
the appliance will go into delay for the expected duraon of
the event. If the consumer momentarily presses the CONNECT
buon to override the Smart Delay funcon, the appliance
will start and operate with the cycle & opons selected by the
consumer.
If the Smart Grid event occurs while the appliance is running a
cycle, the appliance will minimize energy, if possible based on
the state of the cycle; otherwise, the appliance will connue to
operate in the cycle selected by the consumer.
NOTE: If, during a Smart Grid event, a dishwasher or clothes
washer will funcon normally (no Smart Delay) if it is
programed to run a cycle that uses “Sanize” temperatures.