Billion Reveals Smart Grid, Smart City, Smart Home, and Smart Lighting Solutions to Build Up Future Smart Life in 2012 Guangzhou IT Week China

Online, August 18, 2012 (Newswire.com) - In 11th Guangzhou IT Week Exhibition, Billion Electric Co., Ltd. (Taiex: 3027, trading as Billion), exhibits green energy and Internet of Things (IOT) solutions, which include smart grid infrastructures, solar and wind energy management, Home Energy Management (HEM), and Intelligent Streetlight Control and Management System (LCMS). On Aug 17th, Billion will attend the Smart City Summit, which is held by Taipei Computer Association, sharing its experience in green industry, further expecting the next-generation development of intelligent technique in IOT led by cross-strait in-depth cooperation.

China's 12th Five-Year Plan has considered and prioritized green energy and IOT a state-run foremost targets. In view of this, Billion promotes a series of hybrid energy management solutions applying in Home Area Network (HAN) which can be easily set up to monitor and control power consumption by utilizing PLC (Power Line Communication) and ZigBee technique. Besides, Billion's smart energy saving solutions provide users with easy-to-operate management platforms. Whenever the electricity information is collected through Billion's gateway, households could get remote access to monitoring control or read the electricity consumption data to meet the energy-saving objectives.

As the trial and replacement of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) streetlights installation progress have been aggressively driven in the cities of China, LED streetlights with advantages of high-lighting and high-efficiency have gradually phased out the traditional HPS (High-Pressure Sodium) streetlights. Billion's LCMS utilizes network transmission technique like PLC and Radio Frequency (RF) to lower the energy consumption by Timer / Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). Based on the needs of smart cities, Billion's LCMS can further integrate all kinds of environmental sensors and online cameras to realize the function of city securing

Moreover, Billion will showcase Broadband PLC AMI MV/LV module and smart grid AMI equipments that lately just passed the strict trial of LV smart grid AMI tender of Taiwan Power Company. Billion also publishes a series of products of HV output and high-efficiency LED drivers, which can effectively prolong the life expectancy of luminaries and improve the dissipation problems, lowering the maintenance cost greatly.

Through consistent R&D investment in green energy products, Billion fully exerts its strength in IOT expertise to expand the application in every field, determinedly promote more smart energy management solutions in order to provide cross-strait System Integrators and smart city government entities with across-the-board smart solutions.

About Billion
Billion Electric Co., Ltd. (Taiex: 3027, trading as Billion), was established in Taiwan in 1973. One of Asia Pacific area's leading providers of power supplies, communication equipments and Smart Grid and Smart Energy Solution Provider. Billion has in-house R&D laboratories with over 185 engineers specializing in the fields of communications, networking, power, and energy management. The R&D teams are located at Taipei and Hsin-chu in Taiwan, Nanjing and Dong-Guang in China. They work together to meet the needs of Billion's OEM/ODM partners from across the globe. Billion now employs more than 1,630 people and has manufacturing locations in Taiwan, Malaysia, and China. All the factories are ISO9002 certified and every product is 100% tested twice to ensure the best quality and zero defects. For more information, please visit our websites at www.billion.com and www.smartgrid.com.tw.

For additional information, please contact:
Media contact: press@billion.com / Sales contact: smartgrid@billion.com

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