Home Tweet Home: Energy-Savvy House Broadcasts on Twitter
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By Alexis Madrigal
- April 30, 2008 |
- 12:04 pm |
- Categories: Energy
Home improvement is gaining a new wired dimension that’s much more Tim O’Reilly than Tim Allen.
One house twitters about its energy usage, another posts every item in its refrigerator and dozens more provide live data on how much electricity their solar panels are generating.
An increasing number of nerdy homeowners are installing monitors on their houses that broadcast information on the Internet about the physical environment in and around where the houses sit.
This revolution is being led by infotech guys like the Google engineer we wrote about, or the creator of the Twitter system, Andy Stanford-Clark, who works for IBM’s Pervasive and Advanced Messaging Technologies team. And as Katie Fehrenbacher noted over at Earth2Tech, the creators of Flash are now hard at work on an energy monitoring and automation system called Greenbox.
As we’ve noted before, the convergence of IT and green tech is beginning as hackers turn the environment we’ve built and the one that naturally surrounds us into data that can be recorded, analyzed and used to reduce resource consumption. It’s like reverse-engineering the Matrix of the physical world.
Image: Via Earth2Tech.
Of course all this new traffic just raises the demand for power by all those servers working for twitterspace…
@Richard: Come on, I’m sure you know the cost is tiny, and if there are any savings to be had, it’s a net-win.
Man, just last night I was thinking of how I could use flash for a home automation system. Now someone went and started without me.
Why not just set up a website with an RSS feed? What the hell’s the point of twatter?
@Brian, the point of twitter right now is that it has attention and by twittering they get to surf that attention.
Millions of people are looking at twitter, nobody is looking at your RSS feed.
Great, now we can see if he’s away in the evening (lights off) and go over and rob the place. Ill take that fancy energy controller, somebody else wants the tv?
My own home logs everything to multiple Google calendars which makes a whole lot more sense than twittering about it. Only people I share the calendar with can see what’s going on - energy consumption, occupancy, …
And of course I can also make calendar entries on its calendar, chat to it or email it if I want to change anything.
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