Google Powermeter
Google Powermeter
Google Powermeter - an online tool to track your home or office electricity consumption in real time online
energy efficiency | news | shoppingOver the years we have covered numerous domestic
power meters starting with the original
Electrisave. The one shortcoming of these power meters was once the inability to download and view the collected data on a PC. That all changed with the
Wattson Energy Meter and the latest
OWL CM120 USB, but they were still had their limitations and required a technical whizz to analyse the data. That is all going to change now with the launch of the new
Google Powermeter here in the UK.
Google Powermeter
Google Powermeter is offered
free of charge as a
Google.org philanthropic project. It is designed to be used with the
smart electricity meters which will be fitted into all UK homes over the next decade. Currently only
first.utility provide free smart meters to their customers with 30,000 customers signed up and waiting for their meters to be installed starting in November 2009.
For everyone else, it is necessary to purchase a kit comprising a
meter reader, wireless
transmitter
, and
Nano Hub. from
AlertMe Energy. This kit costs
£69 plus there is a
£2.99 per month subscription charge (10 months for the price of 12 if you pay for one year in advance).
The meter reader, which is simply clipped around one of the cables coming out of the electricity meter, accurately measures realtime electricity consumption. This is then transmitted to the
Nano Hub which in turn transmits the collected data over your
broadband internet connection to the AlertMe service.
The data collected can be accessed online from anywhere in the world via your
iGoogle account. Thanks to Google's speedy number crunching and expertise in displaying complex data as clearly and simply as possible,
Google Powermeter is going to be a very powerful tool for anyone who wants to understand and reduce their electricity consumption.
Click here to visit the official
Google Powermeter web page for more information.
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