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IBM, Hildebrand Team Up on UK Home Energy Management By SGN Staff May 19, 2010 - 1:44:36 PM
IBM and energy consultant Hildebrand have teamed up on a project designed to provide real-time analysis of home electricity use for UK residents who want to cut their utility bills and their environmental impact. In a research project conducted in five European cities in Britain and Bulgaria, the Hildebrand monitoring system, which incorporates IBM's Informix database, performed extremely well. "You don't need to understand the technical details — the point is that suddenly, energy monitoring for three million homes or more became a practical proposition," said Hildebrand CTO Clive Eisen. The Hildebrand/IBM home energy management solution provides what is said to be a far more manageable information structure than traditional databases, which makes storing, extracting and analyzing data easier, and response times faster.
Quick Take: It looks like Hildebrand and IBM are onto something here. Home energy management is getting to be a crowded and important space, as Jesse Berst mentioned in his recent piece on Smart Grid trends.
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