Google PowerMeter

http://www.google.org/powermeter/howitworks.html

by mshafrir • 17 years ago

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colinprince2• 17 years ago

I can almost imagine Google's inquisitive feelers crawling out of my computer, down my power cord, into the electric wiring up to my meter.

They never supply something for free unless it will provide them the data they crave.

Yes I know, "No personally identifying information will be shared" blah blah blah but this such an obvious data grab.

sundeep3• 17 years ago

They never supply something for free unless it will provide them the data they crave.

Why should they supply you anything for free?

colinprince2• 17 years ago

Why should they supply you anything for free?

If you're implying that I'm suggesting Google should give me something for free, I'm not.

Just orienting this "service" in a way that shows that the users are, freely, giving something to Google.

Retric• 17 years ago

They can make money just from eyeballs, so they don't need to use data. Normally Google looks for data that increase the value of advertizing space but I don't have any idea what they can do with you electric meater numbers.

likpok• 17 years ago

This is google.org as opposed to google.com, so it might just be philanthropy.

bluefish• 17 years ago

This is something I've wanted to work on for months, but I lack the EE experience to do the physical side of things. Great to see it happening though.

wmf• 17 years ago

The clever thing is that there is no EE side; Google just imports power data from the utilities.

drewjohnson• 17 years ago

Bob Cringely has an interesting opinion about this (http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/).

pkulak• 17 years ago

That looks pretty cool. I've been toying with buying one of these for months: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ELJKLE

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