Development of CTA-2045-A Complaint Solution Supporting GEA2 Connectivity​

US based leading manufacturer of water heating, space heating, and water storage products.

• Design and development of CTA-2045-A complaint solution supporting GEA2 connectivity to allow electricity providers to communicate with end uses over a standard interface to help manage the variability of increasing distributed energy resources on their grids​

• VOLANSYS designed and developed a CTA -2045- A compliant solution that can allow the users to communicate with the heating appliances using mobile app via the gateway​
• Mechanical Design of Wi-Fi dongle​
• Prepared conceptualization sketches ​
• IP51 enclosure design​
• 3D proto typing in DFM for form factor validation​
• Mold tooling – Hard mold >250K unit production capability​
• Silk screen printing process for IO port and LEDs​
• Translucent Light pipe for LED indication​
• Gray color enclosure​
• IP51 testing ​
• Mass manufacturing >5K units​
• Mold maintenance​

• Delivered wall-mount enclosure design with good aesthetic which helped client to attract a new set of customers to convert their legacy devices to smart ones with CTA-2045 compliant solution​
• Customer can deliver a cost-effective solution for enabling connectivity for legacy devices for existing customers which is helping them to maintain the current market share​