Scientific American: Smart Plugs for Your Home
Posted on November 10 2009 by zerofootprint and filed in Press Mentions, Green Business + Investment, Technology + Design, TALKINGplug™
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.
Zerofootprint already helps corporations and governments in evaluating and reducing their carbon emissions through various methods. It also helps households through innovative technologies such as this one. This new TALKINGplug™ is for corporations or households (or anyone with electrical sockets) and will have an initial price tag of about $50. The price may go down considerably if it can make the product on a larger scale.
How does it work? What are its advantages compared to Google’s PowerMeter and other similar up and coming technologies?
How Does a TALKINGplug™ Work?
A TALKINGplug™ fits right onto the top of existing electrical sockets. It is also “equipped with componentry to make it a controllable node on a network, including an RFID chip, microprocessor, and wireless networking.”
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