On Friday I visited our technology partner SENZTEK to look at the smart devices they have built for home owners to use to understand and control their home energy use. All these devices connect to the Cortexo service and provide real demand side management; but there is much more! The smart hot water controller, that also acts as a hub or base for the Zigbee like Home Area Network (HAN), understand if there are solar thermal panels in the home and can divert extra hot water from the solar to say a spa pool or swimming pool instead of wasting it. Today there's an excellent article about SENZTEK's hardware in the New Zealand Herald.
Working with our technology partner SENZTEK in Auckland, New Zealand, we are developing some very interesting new technology to make energy management in the home something available now.
I attended a very interesting conference in Wellington, New Zealand.The Energy Roundtable had representitives of all the major power companies as well as other players.