smartplanet
Feb 11, 2010

Promoting the idea that being zero (at least when it comes to carbon footprints) is a pretty cool thing
By Heather Clancy

Economic stimulus dollars focused on smart grids or green buildings and smart cities are great and all, but we can’t rely on government money to fund the smart planet revolution all by its lonesome. That’s where Zerofootprint Software is stepping in, not necessarily with financing but with software that could help both consumers and businesses figure out where that money could come from to do all the retrofitting we need for a smarter planet.

Treehugger, November 19, 2009
by Jacob Gordon

The CEO of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world’s power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon management firm, has broken into the hardware world with TalkingPlugs, a system that includes devices that attach over existing electrical outlets, giving them special powers: namely the ability to wirelessly transmit their energy output and, inversely, to be remotely controlled and programmed. This opens to door to some very cool features.

RFID Journal, Nov 17, 2009
By Mary Catherine O’Connor

The system, developed by a company named Zerofootprint, places passive high-frequency RFID tags into the electric plugs of appliances and other devices.

Nov. 17, 2009—Zerofootprint, a Toronto-based company whose initial product is a software-as-a-service-based enterprise carbon management solution for corporations, has developed an RFID-enabled system for monitoring and managing home electricity usage, called the TalkingPlug. This system is based on an RFID-enabled electrical outlet and plug system that can track energy usage at the device or appliance level.

Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint’s CEO and founder, says his company will make the system available this coming spring.

Smart Plugs (TALKINGplug™) for Your Home

Scientific American, November 9, 2009
by Zachary Shahan

Zerofootprint has created a new “TALKINGplug™” that will help you to better monitor the energy usage of different appliances and electronics. How? By making your electrical sockets smarter.

Trends Updates, November 10, 2009, by Neo

Monitoring your power energy needs and managing the power consumption at your place has becoming a rapidly popular trend across the globe and firms like Google have already released extensive power monitoring systems which serve the purpose.

Networked ‘smart plug’ gets energy info flowing

CNET News, November 9, 2009
by Martin LaMonica

What if you could better control home appliance energy use by making your wall socket more clever?

That’s the idea behind TALKINGplug™ from Toronto-based Zerofootprint, a company that makes software for measuring and monitoring corporate carbon emissions.

TALKINGplug™ is a plug that fits on top of existing electrical outlets. But it’s equipped with componentry to make it a controllable node on a network, including an RFID chip, microprocessor, and wireless networking. The company plans to introduce the product next week.

EcoLog News
10/30/09
Tech innovations take ‘byte’ out of IT’s carbon
Case studies: companies cut CO2, save green by greening IT

A single Google search during the middle of the day in Toronto produces the same greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as boiling a kettle of water.
That’s just a thumbnail of the larger picture, with corporate information technology (IT) accounting for 3.2 per cent of the world’s total energy consumption - more than the entire airline industry. As new blackberries, video consoles, and other technologies are rolled out, experts expect IT’s carbon footprint to double in the next three years - unless efforts are made to curb it.Researchers like Dr. Rob Dembo are hoping to do just that.

How can you incorporate your carbon footprint into your green strategy if you can’t measure it? A Toronto firm has released software aimed at calculating an enterprise’s carbon emissions.

At peak hour, say midday, downloading 100 megabytes of data is approximately the equivalent of burning a bag of charcoal.

It's a little-known fact about carbon emissions that could help

Toronto-based Zerofootprint has introduced a system called the Enterprise Carbon Manager, based on the Microsoft .NET framework, to enable companies to monitor their carbon footprint. The system works by collecting data from global emissions sources, providing real-time data feeds. By assembing and calculating all the data available, enterprises can get a handle on how much

Zerofootprint has introduced a completely new system that enables business to both track and manage carbon emissions through a single solution. The new Enterprise Carbon Manager (ECM) utilizes Microsoft .NET technology to collect data from global emissions sources, provides real-time data feeds, secure global access, and ensures accurate reporting.

“It has become increasingly