Intel's prototype for smarter energy management

>> Sumey: Background noise Intel has developed a home dashboard concept that they hope will make it easier for people to manage the energy usage in their home. Here to explain to us how it works is Ryan Parker, Director of Smart Grid at Intel. Ryan, thanks for joining us.

>> Ryan: Thanks for having me.

>> Sumey: So this is really the thermostat of the future, right?

>> Ryan: Yes, so most of us don't ever see our energy consumption until the end of the month when we receive our bill, and we don't even understand really what's consuming the energy there. So we built the easy application up front. The varies based on how much you're consuming to give you an understanding of that, and if we drill down to the next level, you can see the amount of electricity, gas, and water that we're consuming right now at any given moment in time.

>> Sumey: This is kind of like money management software. You can really see how much energy each device in your home, each appliance, is consuming. Show us that feature.

>> Ryan: That's right. So if we go into the next level and detail on it, we can see in the gray the total amount of energy that we're consuming, and then the yellow is the amount of appliances we've instrumented. Down at the bottom, you can see at any given fifteen minutes snapshot, what's consuming the most amount of power. So right now, we have the dishwasher. If we go through another shot, you have the water heater, and then we can scroll back and forth through all the devices, the game consoles, the x-boxes, all those things that we can understand how much of our energy is used in those and what we might do to adjust behavior.

>> Sumey: Here at the top I see it says, "Hello," and then it also says, "Goodbye." How does the goodbye feature help you save energy?

>> Ryan: Yeah, so this is one of the simplest things we do when we walk into our home. We shake hands with our house. Background music So you flip the switch as I'm leaving, and it does a few things. First, it sets the security system for me, but then it also puts my home in standby like you would with your laptop, and so it's done things like adjust my thermostat up five degrees so that I can save some energy, and it's also reminded me of a couple of things that I forgot to do in my home. The first one is the stove. I accidentally left the stove running. It asks, "Did you actually mean to do that?" No, I didn't. That wasn't part of the plan.

>> Sumey: Laughter Right.

>> Ryan: And I have my dryer on, and it says, "Would you like to dry off peak?" Right now you're currently drying on peak hours, and we can push that out for you and save you some money. So, I'll wait until off peak, and now I've kind of said goodbye to my home.

>> Sumey: I know that this is a concept, but when can we start seeing these in consumer's homes?

>> Ryan: We see a lot of inaudible taking place throughout the second half of this year, and then into next year we'll see a lot of production ready devices start to show up in utilities and retail.

>> Sumey: Ryan, thanks so much for explaining to us how the home dashboard concept works.

>> Ryan: Thank you.

>> Sumey: For Smart Planet, I'm Sumey Doss assumed spelling. Thanks for watching. Background noise

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