Timothy Schoechle, Ph.D., CEO Smarthome Laboratories
Dr. Schoechle is an international consultant in computer and communications engineering and in technical standards development. He presently serves as Secretary of ISO/IEC SC25 Working Group 1, the international standards committee for Home Electronic System and is a technical co-editor of several new international standards related to the smart grid, including a new project on gateway cyber-security, privacy, and requirements for consumer electronics and Internet-of-Things applications. He also served as Secretariat of ISO/IEC SC32 Data Management and Interchange, 2006–2015, and he currently participates in a range of national and international standards bodies related to smart grid and to smart cities technology and policy issues.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Schoechle has engineered the development of electric utility gateways and energy management systems for over 25 years and has played a major role in the development of international standards for home and building networks and for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). He is currently an active participant of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) hosted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL), U.S. Department of Energy. He is also an active participant or liaison in several smart grid-related technical committees hosted by the ISO and the IEC (including IEC SyC Smart Cities, and IEC TC-57/WG21 (Power System Control and Associated Communication/Interfaces and protocol profiles relevant to systems connected to the electrical grid). He participates in the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) (formerly the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)) working groups on Home-to-grid (H2G) and Cybersecurity (CSWG) working groups, sponsored by NIST/U.S. Department of Commerce. He contributed text on electric vehicles to the NIST Internal Report NISTIR 7628 Report: Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security that was revised and published in 2014.
He also participates in several technical working groups sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) developing standards for vehicle-to-grid communications and electric vehicle charging. During 2012, Dr. Schoechle lead a smart grid SBIR phase II engineering project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy titled, Developing an Agent-Based Distributed Smart Controller for Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Distributed Energy Resources. He authored technical papers presented at six consecutive GWAC/Department of Energy-sponsored Grid-Interop technical conferences from 2007 through 2012.
Dr. Schoechle is the author of the 2013 published report, Getting Smarter about the Smart Grid published by the National Institute of Science, Law and Public Policy (NISLAPP) and was the featured speaker on smart grid policy and renewable energy by the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, January 2014. More recently, he is also the author of the 2018 published 140-page report on municipal fiber, Re Inventing Wires: The Future of Landlines and Networks which was sponsored by NISLAPP and initially introduced at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in February 2018. He is the Principle Investigator of the Solar-plus-storage Demonstration Project funded by the City of Boulder, in Boulder, Colorado.
Dr. Schoechle is a former faculty member of the University of Colorado College of Engineering and Applied Science. He is considered an expert on the international standards system, the topic of his 2009 book, Standardization and Digital Enclosure. He continues to lecture occasionally on telecommunications and electricity grid-related topics. Dr. Schoechle also serves as a faculty member of Colorado State University (CSU – Global) and developed two online courses during 2013-2014: ITS460 – Information Security and Ethical Issues (undergraduate level) and ISM529 – Emerging Cyber Security Technology, Threats, and Defense (graduate level).
Dr. Schoechle was a co-founder of BI Incorporated, presently a $900 million company in Boulder, Colorado, a pioneer developer of RFID technology. He holds an M.S. in telecommunications engineering (1995) and a Ph.D. in communication policy (2004) from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
