Home improvement is gaining a new wired dimension that’s much more Tim O’Reilly than Tim Allen.
One house twitters about its energy usage, another posts every item in its refrigerator and dozens more provide live data on how much electricity their solar panels are generating.
An increasing number of nerdy homeowners are installing monitors on their houses that broadcast information on the Internet about the physical environment in and around where the houses sit.
This revolution is being led by infotech guys like the Google engineer we wrote about, or the creator of the Twitter system, Andy Stanford-Clark, who works for IBM’s Pervasive and Advanced Messaging Technologies team. And as Katie Fehrenbacher noted over at Earth2Tech, the creators of Flash are now hard at work on an energy monitoring and automation system called Greenbox.
As we’ve noted before, the convergence of IT and green tech is beginning as hackers turn the environment we’ve built and the one that naturally surrounds us into data that can be recorded, analyzed and used to reduce resource consumption. It’s like reverse-engineering the Matrix of the physical world.
Image: Via Earth2Tech.