Report: Google getting back into the energy data game?
The ghost of Google’s PowerMeter is back! Maybe. In the form of a reported smart thermostat and energy data trial from Google.
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The ghost of Google’s PowerMeter is back! Maybe. In the form of a reported smart thermostat and energy data trial from Google.
Internet giants Google and Microsoft have officially given their web-based energy management tools the Donald Trump (as in You’re Fired!), and lannounced that they would be closing them down. But there are still over a dozen options trying to tackle this difficult market.
In the wake of Google pulling the plug on its energy tool PowerMeter, Microsoft says it has now killed its energy service, Hohm, too. Microsoft writes on its blog that it will discontinue its Hohm service starting on May 31, 2012.
Google officially shuttered its web energy tool PowerMeter on Friday after the application failed to bring in enough users. Here are five reasons why I think PowerMeter didn’t take off.
Consumer electronics bigwig Belkin has just launched a $30 device that can measure household power use by watts, dollars and carbon footprint from any appliance or device that plugs into a wall socket. But will consumers pay for DIY home energy management? That’s still unclear.
Google’s web-based energy management tool PowerMeter could gain access to up to a million new users through a new gadget partnership with Current Cost.
With Microsoft’s work with Ford and GM’s recent partnership with Google on the Chevy Volt, it’s looking like automakers are teaming up with various Internet giants. How will the unions play out?
Will Google (s GOOG) one day monitor and manage the energy consumption of your washer and dryer? The company has partnered with chip maker Microchip (s MCHP) to work with developers in order to create embedded devices that are compatible with PowerMeter.
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Another small step for empowered and open access to energy data. Search engine giant Google (s GOOG) announced on Wednesday that it…
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