PC World just wrote an article about Google's upcoming PowerMeter which is currently being tested by Google employees and will soon hit the market.  The claims of average power savings of 15% through increased awareness of power usage is an interesting point, however products such as the "Kill-a-watt" have been around for a while now and haven't really saturated the market yet.  Will the Google brand name be enough to increase awareness or convince folks to monitor their power usage more carefully?

The article then discusses how Google's new device may bring home automation to the forefront of consumer's minds.  Perhaps it's just me, but the connection between a power-monitoring device and home automation (which typically has a centralized, monitor-control-respond type motif) is pretty loose.  Perhaps if the device fed the power consumption back into the network for monitoring and aggregate reporting of all household devices I could see the correlation, but currently not so much. 

Link to PC World Article

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Mike  - I have one   |October-16 08:55:02 I just picked up a Kill-a-watt and the results have been interesting! I wish there was a way to wirelessly send the data to my computer, but it's fun to run around and plug it in everywhere... Reply | Quote 0   0

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