At a Broadband Breakfast roundtable last week, AT&T Executive Jeffery Dygert let slip that plans are afoot within the company to enter the home energy monitoring business. This move seems to follow on from AT&Ts partnership with E3 Greentech earlier this year, along with its acquisition of home automation specialist Xanboo in 2010, and would complement the Smart Grid Continue reading →
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For the second time in two months consumer electronics heavyweight Belkin has demonstrated its commitment to products that monitor and manage energy consumption. This morning the company, known for its slick wireless electronics and Apple accessories, announced that it has made “a significant” equity investment in Juice Technologies, a 2-year-old company that makes electric vehicle Continue reading →
The D-Link® Home Energy Monitoring Starter Kit is one of the first products that allows consumers to measure energy consumption of electrical appliances in the home, making it the ultimate smart energy “Green Machine.” It actually changes the way homeowners or renters deal with the age-old challenge of how to keep their home energy consumption Continue reading →
A recent study by Intamac shows that consumers in Britain and North America are eager to have better remote control over their homes. Two-thirds of utility customers polled say they are willing to pay for remote home energy monitoring. But half of the respondents wanted the fee included in their monthly power bills and not Continue reading →
Cisco is betting that utilities are more likely to invest in new data centers than new power plants in the coming years. The tech giant is developing a suite of smart-grid products designed to add networking smarts to the existing grid, including routers for substations and home energy-monitoring systems. But a large chunk of the Continue reading →
