Comments on: This small plug and your smartphone could save you electricity

By: Liz Karschner

Liz Karschner — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:42:51 +0000

This is a great idea and something I wish I could help with. I use smart plugs around my house where I can that shut off everything that goes on standby. This is definitely something I’m going to check back in a couple weeks and try to jump in on.

By: kirko yangz

kirko yangz — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:51:01 +0000

*indiegogo

By: Ricky Bonnell

Ricky Bonnell — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:31:06 +0000

My thoughts exactly. Similar to the electric car production costs. It would depend on the lifespan of the device and how well the consumer monitors it of course….. in general however I must side with you here. Since when are consumers concerned with the big picture though? Tell them they will save a few pennies on a monthly bill and some people will surely flock to buy them….. and it’s kind of novel isn’t it?

By: Adam Estep

Adam Estep — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:08:56 +0000

careful about labeling anything DOA… I do believe that’s what Steve Jobs said about a 7″ tablet…

By: Andre Goulet

Andre Goulet — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:16:05 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking, MisterDTV. A small bit of awareness and a small bit of motivation will save more energy than any device such as this, and won’t cost the environment anything.

By: MisterDTV

MisterDTV — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:05:36 +0000

Isn’t the risk that for many small devices, the energy saved by a device such as this is much, much less that the energy consumed in manufacturing and getting it into the hands of the consumer?

By: hundoman

hundoman — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:26:40 +0000

This is D.O.A as ZigBee standard is what everyone has already put their support behind worldwide and it works with Smart Meters and power seqencing devices. http://www.zigbee.org/About/OurMembers.aspx

By: Ashu Joshi

Ashu Joshi — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Does it use BT 4.0 LE to transfer the data from the Plug itself? If that is the case then the range of the device could be interesting for practical purposes – WiFi would have made more sense – I think…

Monster Cable had partnered with People Power on a similar product but I think it only happened in a press release since I cannot find their product on their website anymore.
http://www.monstercable.com/social/?p=751

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:53:14 +0000

This is exactly where we’re going with data and mobility. Our energy consumption has always been watched at the macro level, never mindful of the incremental waste that happens all around us. We only pay attention when the numbers are big, like with air conditioning or big appliances.

It is exciting to consider the benefits to managing energy at a much lower level. It will not only save at consumption, it will make forecasting far more accurate. We wrote this up here:

http://successfulworkplace.com/2012/06/09/big-data-is-the-greenest-data-of-all/