GainSpan® Corporation, a leading developer of ultra low power embedded Wi-Fi solutions, announced today that its ultra low power embedded Wi-Fi GS1011 chips are being used by Keisoku Giken Co., Ltd., for its recently released WattChecker-tweet, a power monitor that twitters your energy usage. via Keisoku Giken Adopts GainSpan Embedded Wi-Fi Chips for “WattChecker-Tweet”.
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An in-home, multi-function energy information panel has been launched by GE providing its customers with insight and control allowing them to manage their energy consumption and costs. The user-friendly, touch-screen panel has a wireless connection to a home’s smart meter, appliances and thermostats, via ZigBee or Wi-Fi, to collect information, manage consumption and supply real-time Continue reading →
A smart home offering that caught my eye at CES (News – Alert) is the new D-Link Home Monitoring Starter Kit. As the name implies, this Kit offers a relatively easy and cost-effective way for homeowners and renters to get the security benefits of Internet-connected home monitoring, including mobile alerts. via D-Link Rolls Out Home Monitoring, Continue reading →
Like the Oregon Scientific products we mentioned yesterday, home energy information and management products are big this year…really big. A lot of well known companies are getting into the space, betting with the coming smart grid and higher consumer demand for energy efficiency in the home that money can be made. One particular grouping – Continue reading →
SilverPAC, a leading provider of innovative home entertainment solutions, announces the preview of their new SilverSTAT 7, advanced seven-day programmable thermostat. The company partnered with Windows Embedded to develop a truly innovative device that features a Smart Energy In-Home Display (IHD) to help monitor utility usage and expenses in style. SilverPAC has long been dedicated Continue reading →
While 2009 was the year that startups, smart grid firms and venture capitalists decided to move into the home energy management market, 2010 could be the year that the consumer electronics players make their moves. Energy reseller Direct Energy and a group of gadget heavyweights, including appliance maker Whirlpool, retail group Best Buy, and gadget Continue reading →
If any one thing can be learned from the deluge of events, conferences, articles and blog posts on the emerging Smart Grid, it’s that home energy monitoring companies are the sexiest startups in the space. Consumer-facing, colorful and sleekly-designed, they are more appealing than clunky meters or cryptic networking and software startups. But the household Continue reading →
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has signed an agreement with the German municipal utility Stadtwerke Pasewalk to implement smart meter operation services. New European Union rules, which come into effect on January 1 2010, will require consumption dependent billing of gas, electricity and water and by utilities. The Alcatel-Lucent solution being used here is designed to Continue reading →
