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专用集成电路促进家庭能源管理系统设计
对于消费者来说，家庭能源中心提供了将电力利用数据转化为可操作信息的关键环节。这些系统作为实用智能电表和个人能源消费产品之间的接口，提供了一种监测和控制实时能源使用的方法。通过收集家用产品的能源使用数据，并将这些发现与实用数据和智能仪表的其他使用信息相结合，这些系统能够为消费者提供有关其能源使用的具体信息。
有了这个实时的能源使用信息，消费者可以查看整体的能源消耗模式，并更好地了解整个住宅的电力使用情况，以及特定设备的使用情况。反过来，消费者可以设置这些能源管理系统，以优化家庭能源使用-延迟洗衣机，如消耗大量的能源，但其操作可以推迟到利用低利率在非繁忙时间。
This sort of ability to view actual energy usage easily is criTIcal for energy conservaTIon. In industry studies， direct feedback about energy usage through these kinds of systems resulted in energy savings ranging from 5 percent to 15 percent.¹ Although some consumers have expressed concerns about privacy issues， 97 percent of uTIlity customers parTIcipating in a pilot program said they would continue using the devices in their homes and 71 percent said they had already changed their energy usage as a result of their ability to access data through the system.
For engineers， building cost-effective energy management systems has become simpler thanks to a broad range of ICs from manufacturers including Analog Devices， Cirrus Logic， Freescale Semiconductor， Maxim Integrated Products， Microchip Technology， NXP Semiconductors，STMicroelectronics， and Texas Instruments， among others.
