A lot of the interest in the smart grid industry tends to swirl around consumers and home energy management. It can be fun to picture consumers one day buying gadgets at big box retailers that will let them micromanage their home heating, cooling and lighting, and it's an especially attractive venture option for investors and entrepreneurs who cut their teeth on Internet and telecom startups.
via New Opportunities in the Smart Grid — GigaOM Pro.
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February 5, 2010
Derek
Great article. I think we fit in this space. We are a startup company working with the Current Cost Energy Meter (close to 1 million sold in Europe, and now launched in the USA). We are makeHistori.net the first fully web based data historian which allows you to collect, store and analyze your home power data.
makeHistori automatically calculates and trends day, week and monthly power consumption and costs.
Users can access their energy web pages from anywhere and compare time lines of their energy savings with their friends or time synchronize their data with other public timelines such as News, Stocks, Weather, Blogs and Twitter feeds.
Each users data has security, and the ‘data owner’ can decide whether to allow sharing of his data or keep it totally secure.
You can see an example of live house power at a simple page by clicking on this link
http://www.makehistori.net/mhitoripower.aspx?tori=2383
and a full Microsoft Silverlight portal example here:
our portal example can be seen at http://www.makehistori.net/makehistori.aspx?toripage=2386
Any feedback that you may have that we are on the right track is welcomed.