Power Can Violate Your Privacy, Too

Remember I've been telling you not to publish your temperature graphs on Internet for years? All right, with DZ you have a choice to publish or not to publish, but not so with your power company.


Here's the article: Experts: Smart grid poses privacy risks

Well, here's my take on it: if you wanna get, you wanna give. Want to save a penny, gotta let them know what you're doing. Privacy is dead - regrettable, but a fact. You're back to village life, where everyone knows everything about everyone. Just on a new level, that's all.

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Measure, So You Can Improve - Take Two

Remember this?



Well, Google hasn't been sleeping on the job, and they now have the first batch of partners. See if your energy company is one of them.

Measure, So You Can Improve

"What you cannot measure, you cannot improve".

Until recently, it was practically impossible to measure energy consumption. Kill-A-Watt was one of the first practical tools available. Still, it was pretty limited for it couldn't be used to continuously log the energy consumption (and it is being addressed), and it couldn't be used to measure the energy consumption for built-in or high consumption devices such as washers, dryers and HVACs.

Well, if you are concerned about your house energy consumption, it seems that your time is coming - Google is busy working on it. They've just announced the PowerMeter.


It will take some time. Currently, Google is building partnerships, and I'm sure we'll see tangible results soon.

UPDATE (2011/6/24): Google Power Meter is no more. Too bad.