power monitoring

TED + Twitter = Home Energy Tweets

Tweet-a-Watt got the ball rolling, but this project by the Energy Circle one-ups that clever hack to imbue followers of @EnergyCircleKW at Twitter with full-house consumption stats. (Since it’s based on a Kill-a-Watt, Tweet-a-Watt can only report on a single…

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by Pedro Hernandez on July 22, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft Welcomes Everyone Hohm

Disappointed that there was little else to greet you than a sign-up page when Microsoft announced its household power management site Hohm? You weren’t the only one. Luckily, it didn’t take them very long to open the floodgates. If you…

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by Pedro Hernandez on July 7, 2009 · 0 comments

Welcome, Hohm – Microsoft's Home Power Play

Slightly ahead of the smart meter invasion and Google’s PowerMeter, Craig Mundie announced that Microsoft is getting into the home energy monitoring game with a free online service called Hohm. “Microsoft Hohm demonstrates how a combination of advanced software and…

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by Pedro Hernandez on June 24, 2009 · 0 comments

HP's Power to Change Desktop Widget – Nags You to Shut Down, Nicely

Testing the ability of positive reinforcement to effect change, HP is trying to help PC users go green with a novel little software widget for Windows desktops. HP’s Power to Change widget encourages users to turn off their PC’s…

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by Pedro Hernandez on June 2, 2009 · 0 comments