DailyWireless: Google: Smart Power R US

Daily Wireless

by Sam Churchill
[READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE]

Google wants to get into the “smart power” business with a home energy monitoring system, the company announced today. The Google PowerMeter iGoogle gadget, explains C/Net, gives consumers access to more detailed home energy data. Dozens of smart-grid trial programs now going on, offered through utilities.

Yesterday, Google filed comments with the California Public Utility Commission. Google’s comments included:

* Consumers should have direct access to real-time electricity usage information.
* Electricity usage information should be freely available to consumers.
* Electricity usage data should be made available in a standardized, open format, freely available to third-parties with permission from the consumer.

The Google PowerMeter widget will show consumers their home energy information almost in real time. Google PowerMeter is not yet available to the public. But they’re building partnerships with utilities and independent device manufacturers to gradually roll this out in pilot programs.

According to Google, PowerMeter will cut down electricity use by 5-15%. Treehugger.com says dashboards like this are popping up right and left – including Tendril Control4, Greenbox, Agilewaves and others.

If the utility could “talk” to the dishwasher, explains the NY Times, it might tell the machine to run at 2 a.m. and not 2 p.m., or it might tell the homeowner how much money would be saved by running the dishwasher at a different hour.

Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting data from water meter or energy metering devices (water, gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing and/or analyzing. The city of Corpus Christi became one of the first cities in the United States to implement city wide Wi Fi, mainly to facilitate AMR after a meter reader was attacked by a dog.

Machine-to-machine technology is gaining traction among businesses across all industries, reports RCR Wireless News. According to a recent survey conducted by Beecham Research, 82% of businesses responding consider M2M as “imperative” and “very important” for their future. KORE Telematics sponsored the survey along with Anywhere Technologies, Maingate, M2M Alliance, ORBCOMM, Sierra Wireless, Telefonica O2, Tridium, Wavecom and Wyless. RCR News has more on M2M telemetry.

Utilimetrics is a not-for-profit association of more than 1,200 individuals representing international utilities and corporations in gas, water and electric industries. Utilimetrics members develop and implement automated resource-management technologies as well as participate in standardization and regulatory activities.

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