The Sunny Home Manager 2.0 monitors all energy flows in the home, automatically identifies potential savings and facilitates efficient use of solar energy. It makes intelligent energy management even easier and more cost-effective by combining the functions of the Sunny Home Manager Bluetooth and the SMA Energy Meter in a single device starting in April 2017.
Being connected to all major household appliances, Sunny Home Manager can tell you and allows you to adjust your consumption habits. This is the first step in reducing your energy bill and being more ecologically conscious by actually using energy when the sun provides it.
The analysis page shows the energy balance for a specified time period and provides analyses for generation, consumption, self-consumption and battery usage.
Energy Balance with SUNNY PORTAL
Once you know where energy comes and goes in your home, you can let Sunny Home Manager do what it is designed to do... manage energy.
Having access to all key household appliances, the optional battery-storage system and the PV generation unit, the Sunny Home Manager always knows how much energy is available and where it is needed. Aided by a weather forecast from Internet data and individual adaptation to local conditions, it is able to accurately predict solar irradiation for a few hours into the future and supply the connected household appliances with low cost PV energy. Thanks to the Sunny Home Manager’s self-learning function, appliances such as the heat pump run exactly when there is sufficient sunlight available, making it possible to cover electric power demand by solar production.
The online Sunny Portal shows the status of the PV system and displays energy availability and consumption forecasts. It indicates the scheduled operating periods of the household appliances that Sunny Home Manager factors into its energy planning. So you know that the washing machine will be finished at 4 p.m. and that the laundry will have been washed almost entirely using solar power. It also gives tips on how you could use additional excess PV energy.
The diagrams in the Sunny Portal display the power consumption for connected household appliances together so that you can see exactly when Sunny Home Manager started the dishwasher or how much solar power the heat pump used over the past month.
View load balance
The combination of the Sunny Portal Professional Package and Sunny Home Manager is ideal for professional monitoring of systems in the 5 kWp to 50kWp power range. Users can also read the inverter's most relevant DC and AC measured values and pull up information about power and yield. With the Sunny Portal Professional Package, system information is displayed at 5-minute resolution, therefore offering even greater detail. PV system operators can analyze their daily energy use even more accurately using the detailed energy balance data and can learn about their consumption patterns.
Particular energy savings can be made by allowing Sunny Home Manager to schedule distribution of solar power among the household appliances. The biggest savings can be made when the system takes control of the largest electrical appliances in the home. SMA offers a number of solutions that allow Sunny Home Manager to access appliances:
Switch appliances on and off
The Sunny Home Manager 2.0 works with select WLAN radio-controlled sockets from the online shop (see Accessories).
These radio-controlled sockets switch appliances on and off using control signals from the Sunny Home Manager 2.0. The Sunny Home Manager 2.0 measures power consumption levels and records exactly how much power the device has used and for how long.
A variety of appliances can be controlled via the energy management system, including washing machines, dishwashers, dryers, immersion heaters, pumps and many more.
Radio-controlled sockets are available in various country-specific versions. You can find more information in our SMA Smart Home planning guidelines (available in April 2017).
The household of the future is completely interconnected. SMA has already partnered with a few manufacturers to develop major household appliances that work with the Sunny Home Manager in automatically managing household energy:
For example, after simple plug-and-play installation, an intelligent heat pump automatically coordinates with the Sunny Home Manager 2.0 to find the best time to heat the house with solar energy.
SMA Smart Home Partners
More and more controllable devices will be added with the EEBUS communication standard for energy efficiency. Each manufacturer will supply detailed information on compatible appliances and setup.
The active power limitation policy in Germany forces PV systems with battery storage to curtail PV inverter power output when more than 50% of the installed PV power (kWp) is fed into the utility grid.
With its PV yield forecast and measurement of household consumption, the Sunny Home Manager 2.0 knows precisely when it needs to limit grid feed-in, for example at midday. After all, even though on sunny days as much as 100% PV power may be available, if there is no one at home to use this energy, everything over 50% has to be discarded.
To be able to use valuable PV power, it is best to store the otherwise discarded energy in a battery. You can use this practically free energy in the evenings to operate television or prepare a meal.
For such purposes, the Sunny Home Manager 2.0 always ensures that there is enough capacity left in the battery. Instead of charging the battery with excess PV power first thing in the morning, the Sunny Home Manager 2.0 controls the battery inverter to make sure as much PV energy as possible is curtailed during the midday peak so it can be stored in the battery.
Read more about SMA storage solutions:
Thanks to the SMA forecast-based battery charging feature, PV system operators can generate higher PV yields and also lengthen the calendar service life of batteries. With our checklist, you can configure your system in Sunny Portal accordingly, ensuring that no valuable solar power is lost in the future while also extending the service life of your devices.
Everyone dreams of having a zero dollar/euro electricity bill. In late 2019, my family and I made our own investment in solar system for our home. After just the first summer energy bill, it looks like the dream has already become a reality. Find out how, with our Solar system, we have not only reduced our electricity bill to zero, but have also begun to make our own small personal contribution to the global Paris Accord targets.
With the PV system on the roof of their home, the Reinhardt family from northern Hesse, Germany, is committed to be part of the energy transition. The sustainable power generation is well established so that they want to continue to store excess energy using a storage system.
Performance features:
Support of:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Performance features:
Energy Management for Bosch/Siemens home appliances via EEBUS
Battery Charge Time Window control – you decide, when your batteries shall be charged.
Zero Export control for PV systems with AC coupled storage batteries.
If you have activated the automatic software update function for the Sunny Home Manager, the update will be performed without any user interaction. In case you want to initiate the update manually, please temporarily activate the automatic update function. After successful completion of the update, you can revert to the deactivated state of automatic update function. Please note, that the update is processed step-by-step. Multiple Sunny Home Managers are updated one after another.
Performance features:
If you have activated the automatic software update function for the Sunny Home Manager, the update will be performed without any user interaction. In case you want to initiate the update manually, please temporarily activate the automatic update function. After successful completion of the update, you can revert to the deactivated state of automatic update function. Please note, that the update is processed step-by-step. Multiple Sunny Home Managers are updated one after another.
Performance features:
New documentation and application support:
New features in Sunny Portal for Sunny Home Manager PV plants:
Note:
Performance features:
Option for enable/disable of forecast-optimized storage management for Sunny Island
Various Bugfixes:
New version Sunny Portal iOS App
Information:
Notes:
If you have activated the automatic software update function for the Sunny Home Manager, the update will be performed without any user interaction. In case you want to initiate the update manually, please temporarily activate the automatic update function. After successful completion of the update, you can revert to the deactivated state of automatic update function. Please note, that the update is processed step-by-step. Multiple Sunny Home Managers are updated one after another.
An Internet connection to the Edimax-Cloud is required during commissioning of the socket on the SHM2. After that, the Sunny Home Manager (HM-20) would only need an Internet connection if the user wants to switch on the Edimax sockets via the Sunny Portal or activate >automatic< operating mode. Remember that the operating mode is always deactivated again by the Sunny Home Manager after the start-up. Re-activation is required every time it is used again, e.g., to switch on the washing machine. For this reason, SMA recommends always operating the Sunny Home Manager with an existing Internet connection.
When the “Forecast-based charging” function is deactivated, only the planning for charging and discharging the battery is initially deactivated. The other plans and forecasts continue running regardless of this.
If PV systems with zero feed-in function (zero export) include a battery system, irregularities may appear during battery charge. The reason for this is that the battery can no longer detect any feed-in due to the fast PV energy curtailment. This means that not enough energy can be charged. To allow the battery enough time to charge energy, the PV inverter can delay the response time of the curtailment process. The response time (e.g. 5 s) can be set at Configuration > System properties > Parameters > Limitation of active power feed-in in the user interface of the PV inverter.
With a Smart Plug (radio-controlled socket), the Sunny Home Manager System allows you to measure the power consumption of appliances and switch loads.
It is always used universally if your device does not support direct communication (for example, EEBUS or SEMP). Take this opportunity to integrate your most important loads into the SMA energy management system.
To find out which Smart Plug is compatible, refer to the technical information in the SMA SMART HOME compatibility list for electrical loads in the download area.
It is better to generate and use your own electricity than to purchase it. This is why SMA energy systems are specially designed to optimize how the solar power generated is used throughout your home.
To find out which home appliances are compatible, refer to the technical information in the SMA SMART HOME compatibility list for electrical loads in the download area.
When you integrate your heating, you don't just store the electricity but convert it to hot water. You can then use it to run your heating or shower. This will help you consume more self-generated solar power and less oil or gas. Oil and gas cost much more to purchase than you can receive for selling your electricity. You can therefore significantly cut the cost of running your heating, consume less oil or gas and, in turn, reduce your environmental impact.
To find out which appliances are compatible for space and water heating, refer to the technical information in the SMA SMART HOME compatibility list for electrical loads in the download area.
You will automatically use a greater proportion of your own solar power, because you don't need to purchase what you use yourself.
Every kilowatt delivered by your PV system adds range to your electric vehicle - it could not be any easier, cleaner or more affordable.
To find out which appliances are compatible with e-mobility, refer to the technical information in the SMA SMART HOME compatibility list for electrical loads in the download area.
A measuring device is integrated into the Sunny Home Manager 2.0 that is used in the standard configuration to measure the feed-in power and purchased power at the grid connection point. To record the data of power generation capacity of the third-party inverters, an additional SMA Energy Meter has to be used (see Sunny Home Manager 2.0 user manual).
Note: SMA Energy Meter versions 10, 20 and 30 are compatible with the Sunny Home Manager 2.0.
If you have any questions,
please contact SMA.
Contact us