Honda Smart Home to Include Berkeley Lab Ventilation Controller

October 22, 2013

October-November Special Focus: Energy Efficiency, Buildings, and the Electric Grid

Honda Motor Company Inc is proceeding with plans to build a Smart Home in Davis, California, to demonstrate the latest in renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency. The home is expected to produce more energy than is consumed, demonstrating how the goal of “zero net energy” can be met in the near term future. A ventilation controller developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) will be included in the smart home. EETD is currently working with the developers of the home control system to integrate its control algorithms.