My utility, Salt River Project (srp.net), has already installed a smart meter on our home. When used with our account information it is easy to see the results of conservation during time-of-use peak periods. I think of it as seeing a visual reward for time-shifting the dryer and most cooking/baking outside of the peak period and reducing the amount of air conditioning needed to remove any residual heat generated during peak periods.
I am a fan of this.
New digital meters coming soon
July 24, 2009 | Length: 00:01:35
Say goodbye to the utility man coming by your house and reading your meter to calculate your energy usage. Raj Vaswani, CTO of Silver Spring Networks and his team are developing new technologies that will network meters to the grid. The new smart meters allow your utility company to read and measure your energy use remotely and will soon help consumers monitor and control how much energy they consume.
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Just last week a utility guy from PG&E came out and installed a new digital meter at my home. Maybe the last time I see any meter readers!!
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Music Raj Vaswani: I'm Raj Vaswani, and I'm chief technology officer for Silver Spring Networks where we build networking technology and software for the Smart Grid.
Music My background is in technology. And I got into this because I was looking for a way of applying that to what we consider to be the biggest problem on the planet, which is energy. The Smart Grid is central to everything we want to do in energy. The network that controls the Smart Grid is central to the Smart Grid itself. So what we've been focused on is the heart of the problem, which is how you provide that control and functionality to be able to address the issues that we face in energy. Essentially, the meters that sit on the side of your house typically require someone to come by and read it. And you really can't communicate with that device. What we do is we add communications technology to that meter so it becomes a network device; can be accessed remotely, read, provide that information to consumers in a variety of ways. Initially, at least, what we'll be seeing is consumers getting much better access to their data; being able to get near realtime information about how they're consuming it; and, over time, being able to program their usage so that it's most efficient and saves them money.
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