This is the home page for IEEE 1621, the "Power Control User Interface". The official name of the draft standard is:
Standard for User Interface Elements in Power Control of Electronic Devices Employed in Office/Consumer Environments
The approved scope for the draft covers:
The user interface for the power status control of electronic devices that ordinary people commonly interact with in their work and home lives, including, but not limited to, office equipment and consumer electronics. Key elements are terms, symbols, and indicators. It does not cover internal mechanisms nor interfaces for industrial devices.
The purpose is:
To accomplish a similarity of experience of power controls across all electronic devices so that users will find them easier to use and be more likely to utilize power management features that save energy.
IEEE 1621 received final approval on December 8, 2004.
It may be purchased from http://standards.ieee.org/ -- click on "Catalog & Store".
For technical details contact Bruce Nordman, via BNordman@LBL.gov or telephone at (+1) 510-486-7089.
You may check out the Initial Draft (December, 2002) of the standard (PDF or Word). While the initial draft is quite similar to the final standard, it is only a draft.
Chronology
December 8, 2004: Final approval by the IEEE Standards Board.
December 7, 2004: Approval by the Review Committee of the IEEE Standards Board.
October 1-11, 2004: The recirculation balloting period.
August 6-September 5, 2004: The initial balloting period.
April 12, 2004: The Microprocessor Standards Committee (of the IEEE Computer Society) approves moving the draft on to balloting.
March 9, 2004: Working Group Meeting - Several amendments made to the draft and the result sent on to balloting.
November 18, 2003: First Working Group meeting (teleconference).
October 16, 2003: Final report of the research phase of the project posted to the web (see Publications page).
December 15, 2002: Early release of the first version draft standard posted on the web.
September 11, 2002: IEEE New Standards Committee (NESCOM) approved the creation of the working group.
Who is behind this effort?
The preceding Power Management Controls Project and the facilitation and promotion of IEEE 1621 are both conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and funded by the California Energy Commission through its Public Interest Energy Research Program.
What is IEEE's international reach?
While IEEE is based in the U.S., it has members and chapters throughout the world, and recently reached an agreement with the IEC on dual-logos for selected standards, recognizing the fact that many IEEE standards are essential for companies globally.