Google joins the power monitoring party
February 10, 2009 at 5:57 pm Andy Piper 3 comments
In case you don’t follow the #homecamp tweets on Twitter… you may not have noticed that Google announced their new PowerMeter tool, which plays in the same space as a lot of technologies that we talked about at HomeCamp 08 (Pachube, CurrentCost, Wattson and so on). It’s great to see that so many people are beginning to realise the benefits of smart metering and understanding personal energy utilisation 
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The blogging / online network diaspora « The lost outpost | February 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm
[...] Home Camp The next Home Camp is coming up, planned for April, so the blog is coming back to life after a short hibernation. One of the big news items was yesterday’s unveiling of Google PowerMeter. [...]
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2020Vision | February 28, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The power monitoring party grows ever bigger, as Onzo, the London based developers of domestic power monitors reveals their new offering. According to this press release it should be available in the UK by mid 2009.
http://www.onzo.co.uk/press/release/11/
As a product – it looks fairly funky, the choice of font for the LCD gives it a sort of graffiti/comic strip look.
I see it’s equipped with a USB port for exporting data to a PC and “intelligent web based services”.
The use of rechargeable batteries and energy harvesting from the meter cable to which the sensor is attached sound pretty innovative for a device of this kind.
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Joseph Berry | September 14, 2009 at 11:45 am
hi, there
this new powermeter tool seems interesting. want to know more about it. waiting for more…..