Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid

Matter 与 OpenADR 携手合作，将智能家居接入电网

Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together. This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) and, hopefully, save you money.

智能能源管理向简化迈进了一步。本周，智能家居互操作性标准 Matter 的背后组织与负责在电网和家庭之间发送信号的 OpenADR 协议组织宣布达成合作协议。此举旨在让联网家电更轻松地参与需求响应（DR）计划，并有望为您节省开支。

In demand response programs, a customer agrees to reduce or shift their electrical usage in exchange for utility bill credits or other incentives. The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which runs Matter, and the nonprofit OpenADR Alliance have outlined how the two protocols will work together to automate this process.

在需求响应计划中，用户同意减少或转移用电量，以换取电费抵扣或其他激励措施。负责运营 Matter 的连接标准联盟（Connectivity Standards Alliance）与非营利组织 OpenADR 联盟共同概述了这两种协议如何协同工作以实现该流程的自动化。

Matter will handle in-home communication between a smart, connected electrical appliance, such as an EV charger, heat pump, or solar install, and an energy gateway that collects real-time data. Then the OpenADR 3 protocol will handle communication between the gateway, utilities, and grid. This should enable an end-to-end pathway from the grid to your home’s electrical appliances.

Matter 将负责智能联网电器（如电动汽车充电桩、热泵或太阳能装置）与收集实时数据的能源网关之间的家庭内部通信。随后，OpenADR 3 协议将处理网关、公用事业公司与电网之间的通信。这将实现从电网到您家中电器的端到端连接路径。

When energy demand is high, these appliances can make small shifts or reductions in energy use, potentially via a home energy management system. For example, a freezer could delay a defrost cycle, a washing machine could wait to start a load, or a hot water tank could pause its heating.

当能源需求较高时，这些电器可以通过家庭能源管理系统进行小幅度的用电调整或削减。例如，冷柜可以推迟除霜周期，洗衣机可以等待启动，或者热水箱可以暂停加热。

Traditionally, DR programs have focused on HVAC systems, the largest energy consumer in your home. But by connecting more electrical appliances in people’s homes to the grid, utilities could see significant aggregate benefits. That’s been difficult so far with multiple fragmented standards, but a press release from the CSA and the OpenADR Alliance promises that the partnership should make it easier for manufacturers to develop products capable of working with DR programs and for utilities to have a “standardized, scalable mechanism for demand response.”

传统上，需求响应计划主要集中在家庭最大的能源消耗设备——暖通空调（HVAC）系统上。但通过将更多家用电器接入电网，公用事业公司可以获得显著的整体效益。此前，由于存在多个碎片化的标准，这一目标难以实现。但 CSA 和 OpenADR 联盟发布的新闻稿承诺，此次合作将使制造商更容易开发出能够适配需求响应计划的产品，并为公用事业公司提供一种“标准化、可扩展的需求响应机制”。

With the push toward electrification, connecting more appliances to DR programs could unlock savings for homeowners while helping utilities balance the grid’s needs.

随着电气化进程的推进，将更多电器接入需求响应计划不仅能为房主节省开支，还能帮助公用事业公司平衡电网需求。