Schneider and Silicon Labs Revolutionize

Building Energy Management using

Wireless Solutions

EFR32MG13 wireless SoC

PowerTag’s Journey to Energy Savings with

EFR32 Wireless Gecko Technology

Our EFR32 Wireless Gecko Technology t like the last piece

in a puzzle for PowerTag’s requirements criteria, as it offers:

• Low power / High efciency

• Compact design and rich feature set

• Reduced cost

• Accelerated development with robust software,

SDKs and

• Development partnership and customer support

• Design reuse and multiprotocol connectivity

• Secures system from endnote to cloud

The World’s Most Sustainable Company

Schneider Electric was recently ranked the world’s most

sustainable company on the 2021 Global 100 Index

– and it wasn’t for nothing. Take its wireless device

PowerTag Energy

: a compact Class 1 communication

sensor that monitors energy in real-time, the sensor

takes metering to the next level by allowing data

segmentation (commonly known as submetering).

The Challenge

Provide customers with a simple, compact, low-power

submetering solution that improves building energy

monitoring and management, and subsequently, maximizes

energy efciency.

The Solution

Schneider Electric selected our EFR32MG13 wireless SoC to

guarantee PowerTag’s low-power and avoid load interference.

At Silicon Labs, we not only offer solutions – our team of

engineers work hand in hand with our customers to help

them build their systems:

Our customer support helped Schneider port its Zigbee

software stack on to our SoCs to ease the company’s

development journey.

The Result

The global energy specialist Schneider Electric created

PowerTag Energy®, onto a compact wireless device that

can be simply latched on to conventional circuit breakers

to accurately monitor their energy consumption. PowerTag

uses our EFR32MG13 Wireless SoC for energy tracking and

wireless connectivity.

While traditional metering measures total energy

consumption, submeters are used by building facility

managers to track consumption by usage (e.g., lighting,

HVAC, pumps), by building structure (e.g., oors, wings,

area, parking lots) or any other helpful criteria. The

result? Thorough and actionable data.

This data then provides segmented measurements to

better dene building plans and promote sustainability.

Designed for new or existing buildings, PowerTag Energy

also sends alerts in the event of an electrical anomaly

so homeowners can enjoy peace of mind and business

owners can count on operational efciency and uptime.

Alerts come through a phone application, providing

users with vital energy information at the tip of their

ngertips.

Segmentation and always-on monitoring are especially

crucial nowadays as everyone – particularly building

and facility managers – look for ways to optimize their

energy efciency, reduce their overall carbon footprint

and reduce costs. PowerTag Energy certainly comes in

handy, and demand for such efcient, wireless devices

will only continue to grow.

To learn more about PowerTag, click here. To learn more

about our submetering solutions, visit www.silabs.com/

solutions/smart-industry/submetering.

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Where Do We Go from Here?

Customers who go through the initial phases of digitizing

a building are also looking to add wireless connectivity to

enhance energy efciency. Eventually, a building’s energy

savings can fuel further investments and accelerate digi-

tization and wireless adoption. Eventually, operators start

looking at various value-added services that can be built

and integrated on top of the wireless infrastructure that

came with the initial phase. This could be retrotting the

entire building with smart lighting system or building an

asset tracking system that can improve the operational

efciency of the building, to name a few possibilities.

Schneider Electric found in Silicon Labs a trusted partner

that not only met its design and development needs,

but also participated (with extensive technical support)

in every step of the development journey. Silicon Labs’

broad and in-depth expertise in mesh technology

empowers our customers to solve challenging problems

in innovative ways.

Works With 2021

If you want to hear more from Schneider Electric,

be sure to attend this year’s Works With Developer

Conference, where Schneider will be talking about

its PowerTag, as well as the recent launch of Matter

(formerly Project CHIP or Connected Home over IP). As

one of Matter’s strongest allies, Schneider is pushing

for more connections between more objects, simplifying

development for manufacturers and increasing

compatibility for consumers – all through the unifying

standard, Matter.