Verizon has integrated Clearleap’s content management technology into its architecture to deliver cloud-based video with its video-on-demand architecture. Clearleap’s technology is being used to streamline production for FiOS 1 VOD content to provide hyper-local content such as news, sports, traffic and weather to its subscribers. Read more »
It’s imperative that smart grid firms start wooing consumers, and EcoFactor’s consumer-friendly approach to monetizing its technology looks very promising. Here are three tips from the home energy management firm’s playbook for other startups eyeing ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Instead of creating new touchscreen hardware for home energy management, Cisco ought to concentrate on wooing owners of web-enabled smartphones. Here’s ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The smart grid may indeed become an opportunity that’s bigger than the Internet, but like the Internet, it won’t be without its stumbling blocks. Fortunately for us, some web pioneers are unwittingly providing utilities and energy management firms with an education on privacy, one of the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
There’s a growing number of options out there for aspiring home energy app makers — this morning wireless energy management startup People Power released its software developer’s kit called SuRF (Sensor Ultra Radio Frequency) for OSHAN (Open Source Home Area Network). Using SuRF (which you can […] Read more »
The home energy management industry has become saturated with new players looking for creative ways to be heard among the crowd. That’s at least part of the reason why People Power, which says it’s developing plug-and-play devices for monitoring home energy use, plans to launch a […] Read more »
Each year, the holidays spill well into January for tech-obsessed geeks, thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). In 2010, CES will continue that tradition with some decidedly green flair. Like Japan’s CEATEC this fall, eco-consciousness will be a major theme, from the show’s larger Sustainable ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
If you pay attention to the energy sector, then you’ve witnessed the recent parade of home energy management software launched by startups, huge IT firms and veteran electrical meter companies. With firms like Microsoft, Google and, most recently, GE entering the home energy management software space, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Evidence that the home energy management sector is reaching bubble proportions — as we’ve argued before — ratcheted up a notch today with two new entrants into the space: Microsoft and eMeter. The two companies are symbolic of the landscape of this emerging industry, which aims […] Read more »
Craig Barrett, Intel’s former chairman and CEO, has offered up some great rules that helped guide his business life. In a profile for The Wall Street Journal, Michael Malone talked to the recently retired Barrett about his work ethics, business philosophies, and working with Intel legends […] Read more »
Some of the largest unresolved questions within today’s nascent smart grid market are to what degree consumers would prefer to actively monitor and control energy usage in their homes, which user interfaces will be preferred for those purposes, and which business models and product capabilities will entice consumers to engage in home energy management while simultaneously assuaging their concerns about privacy, security and control. To investigate these questions and establish a framework for understanding demand dynamics within the EID and DR markets, Pike Research conducted a survey of 1,041 U.S. consumers in April 2009. The results of this survey are analyzed in this report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
