smart solar panels...36 granted patents in 34 sunny countries worldwide method and apparatus for...

Colin Mallett

CEO Trusted Renewables Ltd

Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK

Smart Solar Panels

Trusted Renewables: who are we?

• “Private spin out” from BT Laboratories

• Innovation Martlesham company established 2008.

• Highly qualified commercially experienced R&D professionals & senior managers

• Many patents and publications

• Wide international horizons

• Completed numerous Innovate UK projects

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What do we want?

• Seeking partners purchase/licence IPRs and take our invention to market

• IP Licencing experts standing by ready to negotiate a deal

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What we do • Research-led innovation and thought leadership

• Experienced engineers & subject matter experts in key areas…

– Smart energy, IoT, wireless, 5G, e-commerce, security

• As ‘innovation integrators’ we take ‘whole systems’ view

• Much experience of multidisciplinary teams, collaborations partnerships with academia and delivery partners

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Cerberus Security labs

We invent things…

We have invented the smart solar panel….

• Smart technology embedded in market-ready solar panels

• Secure chip in each panel ‘self meters’ green electricity

• Panels become ‘thin’ clients with unique digital identity

• P2P wireless connectivity provided by tamper-resistant electronics and communications circuits

• Panels become ‘trusted hardware blockchain oracles’ for green energy trading using smart contracts

• ‘Green crypto tokens’ can be created from panel metering data and stored in an e-wallet

• Compatible with smart metering

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What are the advantages?

Prove exported electricity is ‘green’

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What are the advantages? Prove exported electricity is ‘green’ not ‘brown’…

• Green energy: blockchain certificates for green bonds

• New green investment models: fractional ownership, crowd funding, solar allotments, digital leases, energy futures markets

• Anti-fraud: proof of installation, panel identity, green energy output, location all held in a global distributed ledger

• Asset management: reconcile actual panel location vs inventory records. Useful in developing countries?

• Remote disablement: shut down unpaid, stolen or moved panels

• Resist cyber-attacks: improve “behind the meter” & control systems security

• Secure energy storage: embedded/remote battery management

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Making prototype panel

• Secure IoT modules are based on latest smartcard and wireless chips

• Billions of chips in use worldwide

• Guarantees green origin of the energy created • Links renewables to blockchain technology

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Our patents….

Filed 6 January 2009

36 Granted Patents in 34 Sunny Countries Worldwide

“Method and Apparatus for Secure Energy Delivery”

• 2 patents in USA & Japan

• 1 patent in UK, Australia, S.Africa, India

• 1 patent in 29 EPO countries

– Turkey, France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc.…

Covers ‘operation’ as well as panel manufacture

Seeking partners purchase/licence IPRs and take our invention to market

• TRL team provide knowledge transfer and R&D support

– Develop ring of patents round implementations

– Jointly evangelise innovative concepts

– Carry out trials, pilots etc

– Expert witness to enforce action against infringements

• IP Licencing experts standing by ready to negotiate a deal

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Thankyou

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Colin Mallett Founder and CEO

email colin@trustedrenewables.com 07920 053517