Comments on: Google Wants Big Piece Of Home Energy Management Biz

By: Johnavon

Johnavon — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:41:39 +0000

This introduces a pleasligny rational point of view.

By: Matt Jordan

Matt Jordan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:54 +0000

Smart Meters won’t be smart until they can actually power down appliances, electronics, etc. that aren’t in use. The assumption of the rational consumer altering their behavior in light of superior information is questionable at best, and flat-wrong at worst. Let’s be honest with ourselves: we’ve been informed about the dangers of pollution and global warming / climate change since the 1980s, and at no point have we as a society robustly internalized those risks. Until some authority steps in and dictates stringent regulation on how power is used, and where that power comes from – until we’re made to see that free-market economics is not the savior of all things (and that it’s masquerade as verifiable, repeatable ‘science’ is hogwash… I’m amazed that we put so much faith in something that can be manipulated to describe something after the fact but cannot predict the future… oh, wait! That’s faith!) – we’re going to continue to shoot ourselves in the foot. It’ll take either that or a major, major catastrophe.

By: Robb Henshaw

Robb Henshaw — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:10:39 +0000

With PowerMeter, Google is validating the valuable role of energy monitoring in empowering end users with the information they need to take control of their personal energy consumption. I work with Fat Spaniel Technologies (www.fatspaniel.com), and we absolutely support Google’s stated principle that “open protocols and standards should serve as the cornerstone of smart grid projects” (from their blog). Last year we announced the industry’s first open energy monitoring solution – the Fat Spaniel Insight Platform™. We believe that in order to provide users with a complete energy solution, it must be an open platform that can monitor all devices and systems and distill the data into usable information. As such, Fat Spaniel will extend its open, standardized interface to Google’s PowerMeter once it is publicly released.