EnergyHub will give you all of that information and in real time. the system lets you track every appliance in your home, down to the last cell phone charger. The system also connects you to other people in your community, and creates a way for your utility to communicate with you directly.
Using the user friendly installation system, you can control appliances and devices – essentially anything in your home that consumes energy – from the touch screen dashboard.
via EnergyHub Review.
Dubbed by Time Magazine as the “Best Invention of 2009,” EnergyHub’s Dashboard which has the rare ability to “rein in the real power hogs” in a user’s home now teams up with GridPoint, Inc., is one of the respected names in smart energy solutions. At DistribuTECH, the two companies announced that GridPoint’s home energy management solution will support EnergyHub’s Dashboard.
via GridPoint to Support EnergyHub’s Home Energy Management Dashboard.
Not all home energy monitoring solutions are endowed with equal embedded intelligence. The EnergyHub home dashboard has won impressive accolades, including a Time Magazine “Best Inventions” award as one of the smartest and most consumer-friendly energy products of 2009. I followed up with Seth Frader-Thompson, CEO and founder of Energy Hub, to find out more about EnergyHub and its plans for bringing smart home energy solutions to market.
via EnergyHub Founder Focuses On Smart UI for Energy Monitoring Dashboard.
Apple, like Google, has a habit of causing major waves throughout the markets it enters. Could the master designers behind the iPhone, iPod, iTunes and Mac, one day revolutionize the way consumers manage the energy consumption of their gadgets and even homes? In effect, can Apple do what it did for digital entertainment and cell phones, for the energy of computing?
Energy dashboards were a big subject at West Coast Green this year. But the buzz wasn’t as much around new devices on the market as it was pondering how energy dashboards – and the simple fact of making energy consumption data available to consumers – can change our habits for the better, for good. Not just a novelty anymore but something making their way into our daily life, energy monitoring dashboards have a big role to fill, but still have room for improvement. From panels with key players like Google PowerMeter, PG&E and IBM to un-panels made up of smart meter enthusiasts, there were some big ideas about how energy dashboards will revise the way we interact with our homes and energy sources.
Energy Dashboards Are The Next Major Tool for Energy Efficiency
In a panel on connecting smart buildings to the smart grid, the main focus was on how the end user of electricity can participate in energy efficiency. Andrew Tang, Senior Director, Smart Energy Web at Pacific Gas & Electric stated that we’re a short 12 to 24 months away from power meters being a commonplace item on shore shelves that people pick up regularly to install in their homes and monitor their energy consumption.
via West Coast Green 2009: Can Energy Dashboards Change Behavior, Permanently? : TreeHugger.
Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage. The graph below shows how someone could use this information to figure out how much energy is used by different household activities.
Analyze:
Get better information about how you use energy and what you can do to be more efficient.
Save:
Reduce your energy bills and carbon footprint by making smart decisions about your energy use.
Share:
Strike up a little friendly competition to see how your energy consumption compares to your friends and neighbors.
via Energy Information.
When Michael Murray was a student at Oberlin College, he liked to walk to each dorm, read the electrical meters, and plot the biggest consumers on a Web site. This was the most scientific way, he explained, to find the greenest residents with the greatest devotion to minimizing energy usage.
Today, he’s the chief executive for Lucid Design Group, a company that aims to automate — and greatly expand — that analysis. Every minute, his server collects energy consumption rates from buildings around the country, comparing their consumption against historical data and plotting it on a dashboard…
“The research suggests that the more immediate the feedback, the more effective it will be,” Mr. Murray explained. “The once-a-month bill is a pretty poor motivator.”
via An Energy Dashboard for Buildings – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.
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