Energy saving: the bet of the brands present at CES in Las Vegas

Restricted to virtual last year due to sanitary conditions, the Consumer Electronics Show is taking place this year from January 5 to 7, 2022 in Las Vegas! This is the world's largest technology fair, where more than 2,200 exhibitors compete in (connected) intelligence to offer you the best in terms of TVs, smartphones, vehicles or other sophisticated innovations. LeLynx.fr is focusing on some energy news that could change your daily life soon!

You are now beginning to be familiar with these remarks: the major challenges of the years to come relate to energy resources! How to save them? How to make sure to use more renewable energies? How to ensure an optimal ecological transition? CES exhibitors have also understood this! And even if multiple products relate to the themes of health, cybersecurity, parental education or even home automation, some advances in energy have already stood out during the first day of the CES show.

The Razer brand revamps its computers… from the inside

Reducing your electricity consumption goes through the objects we use on a daily basis, among them is obviously the computer, which consumes a lot of electricity.

The computer company Razer, from Singapore and well known to Gamers for the quality of its high-performance PCs and peripherals, is back with a range of laptops. If you are wondering what the difference is with the previous range, we would be tempted to tell you none… Except that Razer has decided to revamp the interior components, using the latest technologies.

As an example, we will cite the 15.6-inch Blade model which can have either an Intel Core i7-12800H (14 cores) or Core i9-12900H (14 cores) processor. These two processors are part of the very new generation of chips, the 12 ^th , which leads them to unequaled performance, but also to good electricity savings! If the computer consumes much less than a lambda computer at rest, it is during charging that it is truly more economical.

Focus on Project Sofia

Razer has also made an impression with the invention of a futuristic computing environment. It is a totally modular office. The user can thus use it to play while being totally immersed and then easily reconfigure everything to switch back to classic office automation. Project Sophia supports up to 13 different modules including secondary displays, monitoring tools, touch panels with built-in shortcuts, pen tablets, audio mixing units and other innovations. “Project Sophia is our futuristic vision of a versatile gaming and workstation setup that meets the very different needs of a variety of possible PC uses. said Richard Hashim, vice president of development at Razer.

Schneider Electric envisions the sustainable and connected homes of tomorrow

Houses and apartments will be the main emitters of greenhouse gases over the next ten years, according to Schneider Electric. By leveraging new technologies, we could cut global CO2 emissions by 30% by 2050. That's why the company showcased its new innovations at CES, including:

The switches are made from polyamide fishing nets, themselves collected off the coast of India and in the Arabian Sea. The very packaging of these products has been eco-designed, that is to say studied not to reuse plastic or any non-recyclable material in its design from A to Z, an approach hailed by the Cradle To label. Cradle.

Wiser Energy is the intelligent solution to be connected to your electrical panel, which ensures electricity distribution within the home that is connected, intelligent and secure. Thanks to this system, consumers can control how energy is produced and then circulated in their home. They can switch from the public network to alternative energy sources such as batteries, photovoltaic panels or even generators if necessary, all with the aim of reducing consumption and cost.

New features relate to resource optimization in the event of a power outage, a virtual load panel regarding backup energy until power is restored, and finally increased system monitoring, allowing to reduce up to 50% of air conditioning and electric heating costs.

Samsung no longer wants to recharge your batteries… remote controls

For lovers of small or large screens, this is great news! At CES 2022, Samsung presented its new product: a remote control without batteries! An innovation that is part of the company's desire lately, namely to maintain the course of a low ecological impact by thinking and creating its products.

Explanation: this Eco-remote control absorbs the electromagnetic waves contained in the room. Then it converts them into a continuous signal that charges the built-in battery. The goal is to get rid of the many batteries that we use every year for our TVs and other electrical devices. Switching to solar power for remote controls would save just under 100 million batteries in seven years.

In order to seal its promise for a greener world, Samsung has also announced its collaboration with the Patagonia brand in order to evacuate microplastics from the environment.

Heole has the wind in its sails… and the energy too

Intended for sailing enthusiasts, this innovation will soon be arriving on boats to help skippers of the Vendée Globe, the Route du Rhum or the Transat Jacques-Vabre, to consume less energy on board their sailboat. Indeed, they are obliged to activate an electric motor on board their boat to operate all their electrical devices: driving lights, autopilot, on-board computer among others!

This is where the French start-up Heole comes in: designed with photovoltaic films (OPV), the sails could capture sunlight and transform it into electrical energy. Marc Guillemot, French navigator, is putting on the tester's hat and thus preparing for his next race with an 80 m2 sail, 30 m2 of which will be made from organic photovoltaic films!

Jean-Marc Kluber, president of the French start-up Heole, thus affirmed to be absolutely confident in this principle, which is as useful as it is ecological: “OPVs last 25 years and we know that their ecological cost is amortized in three months. It remains to test the resistance of these extraordinary sails to water, salt and wind.