Comments on: Google pushes for open Energy data, launches PowerMeter http://nodestone.com/2009/02/10/google-pushes-for-open-energy-data-launches-powermeter/ social web action Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:17:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Adrian McEwen http://nodestone.com/2009/02/10/google-pushes-for-open-energy-data-launches-powermeter/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Adrian McEwen Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:31:58 +0000 http://nodestone.com/?p=774#comment-682 Great, I'll see you there then. There was some discussion at Homecamp 08 about visualisation and either collaborative or competitive usage sharing, but not enough to draw any conclusions about areas to explore. Maybe you could chair another session on it at Homecamp 09? I assume you've seen Dan Hill's excellent <a href="http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/01/the-personal-we.html" rel="nofollow"><em>The Personal Well-Tempered Environment</em></a>? I think the privacy and potential negative side-effects are a bigger problem than his hand-waving suggests but it's thought-provoking stuff. Great, I’ll see you there then. There was some discussion at Homecamp 08 about visualisation and either collaborative or competitive usage sharing, but not enough to draw any conclusions about areas to explore. Maybe you could chair another session on it at Homecamp 09?

I assume you’ve seen Dan Hill’s excellent The Personal Well-Tempered Environment? I think the privacy and potential negative side-effects are a bigger problem than his hand-waving suggests but it’s thought-provoking stuff.

]]> By: Graeme Sutherland http://nodestone.com/2009/02/10/google-pushes-for-open-energy-data-launches-powermeter/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Graeme Sutherland Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:34:12 +0000 http://nodestone.com/?p=774#comment-681 Hi Adrian, thanks for the info and reminder about Homecamp. Just signed up for Homecamp 09 and looking forward to it. I come from a hardware hacking background, and have spent about ten years around lighting automation, energy management and now a lot of social co2 measurement and reporting. So, for me it is all about good visualisations and web tools to help people see what they are using and reduce their gas and electricity consumption. If we have smart meters all over the place, and some open standards, that make it easy for web apps to show up to make it social. I wonder if the google.org folk would like to come to Homecamp? Hi Adrian, thanks for the info and reminder about Homecamp. Just signed up for Homecamp 09 and looking forward to it. I come from a hardware hacking background, and have spent about ten years around lighting automation, energy management and now a lot of social co2 measurement and reporting.

So, for me it is all about good visualisations and web tools to help people see what they are using and reduce their gas and electricity consumption. If we have smart meters all over the place, and some open standards, that make it easy for web apps to show up to make it social.

I wonder if the google.org folk would like to come to Homecamp?

]]> By: Adrian McEwen http://nodestone.com/2009/02/10/google-pushes-for-open-energy-data-launches-powermeter/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Adrian McEwen Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:12:47 +0000 http://nodestone.com/?p=774#comment-680 That ecosystem you're talking about is already forming. There's a whole community of people already logging their energy usage and uploading it to the web to share and compare with others. I'm building some <a href="http://www.mcqn.com/weblog/mazzini_monitors_its_first_appliance" rel="nofollow">hardware to wirelessly monitor the energy usage of individual appliances</a> and you can see the <a href="http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1164" rel="nofollow">current data live on the web</a>. There are plenty of others playing around with similar projects, and a group of us got together last year to share ideas and experiences at <a href="http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/FrontPage" rel="nofollow">Homecamp 08</a>. The next one has just been announced and will be taking place in early April. That ecosystem you’re talking about is already forming. There’s a whole community of people already logging their energy usage and uploading it to the web to share and compare with others.

I’m building some hardware to wirelessly monitor the energy usage of individual appliances and you can see the current data live on the web.

There are plenty of others playing around with similar projects, and a group of us got together last year to share ideas and experiences at Homecamp 08. The next one has just been announced and will be taking place in early April.

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