[HH] 1) WattCost 2)Wireless Sensor Tags

Stephen Ronan sronan at panix.com
Wed Nov 26 22:56:03 EST 2014


http://wattcost.com

Robert Scoble writes: "This is the most interesting new 
thing/company I've seen this year. Wattcost tracks when different 
electrical appliances are turned on or off (it can tell what 
brand of refrigerator you have, for instance, just by the 
electrical signal it shows on your power line/meter). Reduce your 
carbon footprint.

"Will be coming to United States in mid 2015 for $149."
(Can be pre-ordered now for $99)

Scoble's intervew with one of the founders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6_n0LptPk

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2) Wireless Sensor Tags
http://wirelesstag.net/

I've been trying out the system and been quite impressed, 
particularly with the range of their inexpensive 433MHz devices:

"Wireless Sensor Tags and Kumo Sensors monitor and record motion 
events, door/window open/close events, temperature/humidity/soil 
moisture and water leaks. They can send you emails, notify you on 
your phone when temperature or RH is too low or too high, or each 
tagged item has been moved even only slightly, or when each door 
has been opened or closed. View graphs/data-logs of temperature, 
humidity, motion events at each wireless sensors anywhere with 
Internet. Attach to easy to lose items in your house and find 
them by beeping each tag from any browser or your phone. 
Out-of-range and back-in-range notification features come 
standard on all types of sensor tags. KumoApp Engine allows 
automation algorithms to be defined in Javascript to trigger 
Internet connected devices such as WeMo swtiches, Nest Thermostat 
and Phillips Hue upon events from sensors, schedules and 
geofences.

These are the folks behind it:
http://www.caogadgets.com/about.aspx

   - Stephen



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