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NEV
Electronics LLC
What
we
do
NEV
Electronics LLC
provides electronics engineering consulting services,
products for our clients
and our own line of electronic products. We
specialise in lighting controls, ballasts, building
automation, industrial and
mobile control. Select the Services button for our
consulting
capabilities
and the Products button for our line of products.
Projects
CEDR: Cost
Effective Demand Response system
"The
California
Lighting Technology
Center of the
University of California, Davis, in conjunction with Benya
Lighting Design
and NEV
Electronics
LLC, is pleased to announce the development of a new system
for electrical
power system Demand
Response (“DR”).
This system is capable of
being quickly implemented at low cost and can be used to
shed unnecessary
lighting, appliance, air conditioning, and almost any other
electric load
during periods of Stage 1,
2 or 3 power emergencies.
The principal feature of the system is the ability to
retrofit into existing
buildings of all types, from residences to hotels, office
buildings, and even
industrial sites. No major rewiring is required;
transmitting devices are
installed at the electrical panel and receiving devices,
including special wall
switches, are installed at loads. Loads are shed upon
command with the
option of power emergency level, permitting prioritizing and
choice by the
user.
Unlike competing and foregoing concepts, this development
uses low cost, robust
devices, easily installed in existing or new buildings, and
is
capable of plug and play operation. It has been
specifically developed to
solve California’s power crisis issues through safe, planned
and staged
load shedding, rather than adding generation capacity or
staging rolling blackouts.
The simplicity of the system lends itself to
broad dissemination
through utility rebate programs and other mass marketing
programs.
A proof of concept demonstration device has been developed
and operates
properly."
UC
Davis Technology Transfer Services announcement
See also CEDR Report, CEDR
block diagram, CEDR Short Description, CLTC web
page, and Flex your Power.
NEV designed and produced a demonstration system that has
been installed at
CLTC. An RF remote is used to trigger the DR event to
simulate the
wide variety of triggers that may be preferred by individual
utilities.
The CLTC site photographs show that only the existing
electrical wiring
is
required when a wireless DR trigger signal is used..
Patent applied for.
CEDR development towards commercialization is proceeding
under Project 3
of CEC's PIER
LRP2
Lighting
California's Future.
Retrofit Fluorescent Dimming with Integrated Lighting
Controls:
Joel Snook, subcontracting to Vistron, designed the PCC
encoding and
decoding concepts, hardware and firmware, specified the PC
level software
requirements and managed its development. Project Overview, final report , additional
information.
Wireless Environmental Sensor proof of concept demo:
Joel Snook, subcontracting to Vistron, modified a
commercial occupancy
sensor to be compatible with a Dust mote and added an
illuminance
sensor. See page 8 of report.
1-Wire in task lamp proof of concept demo:
Joel Snook and Pete Pettler modified commercial lamps to
allow 1-Wire
control. Report.
Who we are
President Joel Snook is a hardware, firmware
and product design
engineer, see resumé. NEV works with a number
of consultants and
businesses
to add software engineering, PC layout, product and circuit
board assembly to
our capabilities as needed. We can provide turnkey
design and
production capability to our clients who do not wish to
manage the required
services themselves.
12/12/07
5:39pm
