Household appliances (heating and cooling systems, refrigerators, electronics, hair dryers) account for 60 to 90 percent of the residential electricity consumption in the U.S., depending on whose reports you read. More and more of those appliances are becoming “grid-aware” and gaining the ability to monitor and report their own usage and to increase or decrease their electricity usage by remote command.
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The Internet's power will allow management of the home in ways that save energy and money automatically in its next stage of development, according to a pioneer in the online world. Click to read Peter Gardett's interview with AlertMe CEO Mary Turner.
A UK-based smart home technology startup is making its first commercial launch in the U.S. in partnership with retail giant Lowe's. AlertMe gear is sleek and sexy and Lowe's has big plans for the new service it will offer on the AlertMe platform. But will consumers buy retail - or hold out for a utility subsidy?
Tendril is sweetening the pot in its efforts to entice developers to come up with third-party applications for the smart grid and smart home on its cloud-based platform. Click to learn about Tendril's new web site for app developers and its contest featuring $5,000 in prize money.
When it comes to energy efficiency, a Scrooge-like mindset can be a good thing. That's why we called on our penny-pinching but gadget-loving Technical Director for a few of his kilowatt-reducing gift suggestions from the Smart Grid News store.
Snow storms, power outages, rate hikes… isn't there a better way? That's what Carl Ford contemplates in his call for a smart grid application for the home that's smarter than anything he's seen so far.
Communications provider Trilliant today announced a new platform and new partnerships aimed at smoothing the path to demand response (DR) and home energy management (HEM). The announcement has a lot to say about the state of HEM today (chaotic). And about how Trilliant differentiates itself from rivals such as Silver Spring Networks. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has details inside.
Why have we embedded sensors, monitors and digital intelligence into virtually every piece of the electricity value chain... except the load panel? SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst is trying to figure that one out. But in the meantime, his latest Discovery Showcase feature introduces an Israeli company that has what looks to be a promising solution. Learn all about it inside.
The energy efficiency battle has a new ally, courtesy of a Silicon Valley startup that boasts alums from Apple, Google and other tech notables. And don't dismiss their Nest Learning Thermostat as just another smart thermostat. You'd expect more from creators of the iPod, right?
Austin's innovative Pecan Street Project is bringing the smart grid home … literally. Pecan Street Inc. is teaming with some industry heavyweights to work on a consumer-focused smart grid built around home apps and consumer electronics. It could be just what the smart grid doctor ordered – a way to get consumers excited about smart grid technologies. Click inside and see if you agree.
Are you wrestling with tough control system and substation automation problems? Need a smarter way to track field assets? Want a fast solution for analyzing day-two smart grid implementation benefits? Our latest product roundup may help; click inside for seven new smart grid solutions on the market now (or on the way soon).
The news that Honeywell and Opower are joining forces to develop energy management tools to help consumers reduce their energy consumption and save money should put other players in the crowded home energy management space on notice. Find out why inside.
On the island of Jeju, South Korea, 2,000 homes are currently hooked up to a smart grid pilot that's changing the way electricity is supplied. See this project close up in this Al Jazeera video.
A smarter energy cloud hovering over Dubuque, Iowa. Picture frame nostalgia from a London designer. And algorithms that can identify appliance-specific data signatures. Believe it or not, all three are concepts emerging on the home energy management front. Learn more inside.
While in California recently, Carl Ford sat down with Intel spin-off GainSpan to hear their story of low-power consumption WiFi solutions. He expects to see some of them creeping into our homes and garages soon. Learn more inside.
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has high praise for the first standard for hybrid home networks. The organization says the standard would not only give consumers with home area networks increased reliability and flexibility, it also would cut installation and support costs for service providers.
Opower has announced that it is well on its way to meeting a goal of helping U.S. consumers save one terawatt of energy by the end of 2012, an amount equal to taking 100,000 homes off the electric grid for a year. Read the story for more on the home energy management software company's ambitious energy savings goal.
We’re here with another slate of new or updated smart grid technologies we think you'll want to know about – from a real-life V2G technology to a home energy management system that looks like it belongs in outer space. And if grid optimization or smart grid security is on your radar, we've highlighted new developments there too. Click inside for details.
Jesse Berst often says it's going to be easier to make devices smart about energy than it is to make people smart about energy. So he's calling today's announcement from EcoFactor about the success of its automated approach to home energy management a step in the right direction - and thinks you'll find EcoFactor's strategy very interesting.
Keeping up with what’s new in the smart grid space is about as easy as following Charlie Sheen’s rambles. So we’ve done some of it for you. Click inside for snapshots of 10 new smart grid technologies we think you’ll be interested in.
This panel discussion features industry leaders discussing ongoing utility efforts to implement in-home energy technologies and customer applications of the smart grid to empower consumers to better manage their energy. Moderated by NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira, the panel includes: OGE Energy Corporation CEO Peter Delaney, Silver Spring Networks CEO Scott Lang, and Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Ron Binz.
SmartSynch announced last week it will offer utilities a prepayment option with its smart meters. Then came EcoAlign suggesting that, based on its consumer survey, prepay could be the first customer-facing benefit enabled by the smart grid. One problem: Sources tell us adoption rates for prepaid electric service in the U.S. are extremely low—like less than 1%. So again, what's the point?
An estimated 150 companies are focused on the residential energy management space today – many of them with ho-hum offerings. But we're starting to see a few exciting concepts emerge from the pack, including one from a company that’s actually starting to deliver on its compelling vision.
This technical paper discusses the challenges to HAN reliability in real-world residential settings due to significant and variable interference from multiple coexisting wireless devices. It proposes the Adaptive and Robust Channel Hopping (ARCH) protocol described as a lightweight receiver-oriented protocol which handles the dynamics of residential environments by reactively channel hopping when channel conditions have degraded.
This year's Consumer Electronics Show spotlighted the smart grid, in particular connected devices in homes of the future. If you missed CES, or want a quick recap, we've rounded up a few smart home videos from the show floor.
Mike Beyerle of GE describes the ways in which the GE Nucleus can transform smart appliances into part of the smart grid, saving energy and improving convenience for homeowners.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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