Comments on: More Tweeting Smart Meters! This Time Outta Mississippi http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/27/more-tweeting-smart-meters-this-time-outta-mississippi/ Helping the Earth with Technology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:45:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Whiplash, In Case You Missed the Energy Efficiency News from August 24-28, 2009 | Energy Circle http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/27/more-tweeting-smart-meters-this-time-outta-mississippi/#comment-37319 Whiplash, In Case You Missed the Energy Efficiency News from August 24-28, 2009 | Energy Circle Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:27:20 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39993#comment-37319 <p>[...] a smart meter startup, to install smart meters across the campus.  If that’s not enough, the smart meters will be tweeting, facebooking, and blogging. Ole Miss, in sum, will have electricity meters that are more tech-savvy than your mother. What do [...]</p> [...] a smart meter startup, to install smart meters across the campus.  If that’s not enough, the smart meters will be tweeting, facebooking, and blogging. Ole Miss, in sum, will have electricity meters that are more tech-savvy than your mother. What do [...]

]]> By: Matthew Scallet http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/27/more-tweeting-smart-meters-this-time-outta-mississippi/#comment-37168 Matthew Scallet Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:00:17 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39993#comment-37168 <p>Our real-time pricing program in for Ameren Illinois customers currently allows participants to receive daily price reports via twitter that show the highest priced and lowest priced hours for the following day. If the price is expected to be particularly due to a critical peak load on the system, we issue a special high price alert as well. Check it out at www.twitter.com/powersmart or for more about our program at www.powersmartpricing.org.</p> Our real-time pricing program in for Ameren Illinois customers currently allows participants to receive daily price reports via twitter that show the highest priced and lowest priced hours for the following day. If the price is expected to be particularly due to a critical peak load on the system, we issue a special high price alert as well. Check it out at http://www.twitter.com/powersmart or for more about our program at http://www.powersmartpricing.org.

]]> By: Brendan @ PlentyWays http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/27/more-tweeting-smart-meters-this-time-outta-mississippi/#comment-37151 Brendan @ PlentyWays Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:06:47 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39993#comment-37151 <p>I'll say it right now, I think these smart energy monitors are going to be a huge tool in reducing energy consumption in the US and worldwide. Some companies seem to be doing great work with utilities in order to bring complex load monitoring systems to market, which will be great. But why is there no simple consumer monitor, like TED or any other, that simply plugs into an ethernet cable, posts the data online, then makes it available via an API. Allow the community to develop a simple dashboard for the data, and you have a great and incredibly useful product.</p> <p>Its been shown in various studies that simply making people aware of the amount of energy that they are using actually leads to them reducing the amount of energy that they use. Its amazing how much clarity a simple graph of your energy usage can bring. We set the energy monitor in our home to post real time energy usage to the web, and plot it in a graph: http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/08/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-electricity/</p> <p>Its really effective, but it was a little technical to set up and requires a laptop to be always on in order to post the data online. I'm waiting for an energy monitor that will automatically do this for you, and make it simple enough so that any consumer can set it up. Then it will be really interesting: comparing energy usage with friends, sharing tips, measuring how effective each tips are... the possibilities for mashups are endless. So come on guys, where is this product?</p> I’ll say it right now, I think these smart energy monitors are going to be a huge tool in reducing energy consumption in the US and worldwide. Some companies seem to be doing great work with utilities in order to bring complex load monitoring systems to market, which will be great. But why is there no simple consumer monitor, like TED or any other, that simply plugs into an ethernet cable, posts the data online, then makes it available via an API. Allow the community to develop a simple dashboard for the data, and you have a great and incredibly useful product.

Its been shown in various studies that simply making people aware of the amount of energy that they are using actually leads to them reducing the amount of energy that they use. Its amazing how much clarity a simple graph of your energy usage can bring. We set the energy monitor in our home to post real time energy usage to the web, and plot it in a graph: http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/08/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-electricity/

Its really effective, but it was a little technical to set up and requires a laptop to be always on in order to post the data online. I’m waiting for an energy monitor that will automatically do this for you, and make it simple enough so that any consumer can set it up. Then it will be really interesting: comparing energy usage with friends, sharing tips, measuring how effective each tips are… the possibilities for mashups are endless. So come on guys, where is this product?

]]> By: What to read on the GigaOM network http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/27/more-tweeting-smart-meters-this-time-outta-mississippi/#comment-37144 What to read on the GigaOM network Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:07:18 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=39993#comment-37144 <p>[...] Edit Staff | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | 8:06 AM PT | 0 comments More tweeting smart meters! This time outta Mississippi (Earth2Tech) Why I’ll wait on Snow Leopard, and why maybe you should, too (TheAppleBlog) A tale [...]</p> [...] Edit Staff | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | 8:06 AM PT | 0 comments More tweeting smart meters! This time outta Mississippi (Earth2Tech) Why I’ll wait on Snow Leopard, and why maybe you should, too (TheAppleBlog) A tale [...]

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