All Articles Tagged Energy Monitoring

Steven Castle | 10/14 06:49 AM, 0 Comments

Telecom giant Verizon has launched its long-anticipated home connectivity and energy management solution, joining huge service providers ADT, Comcast/Xfinity, Alarm.com, Vivint and others in providing basic home control of web-based cameras, wireless thermostats, lights and appliance plug-in modules. Like the other providers, remote control via smartphones is also available. Also like the other providers, Verizon’s Home Monitoring and Control system uses Z-Wave wireless mesh technology and will enable customers to turn down air conditioning or lock doors remotely, see what’s going on at home via networked cameras, and set and… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 08/30 05:59 AM, 1 Comment

We have chided the use of load monitoring and management in the past – people don’t care about saving a few pennies per month, and there is no joy in watching bar graphs of a family’s energy consumption. But Hurricane Irene sheds light on a compelling use for load monitoring and control: managing energy consumption during a power outage when the back-up generator can only deliver power at its rated capacity and for a finite number of kilowatt hours (kWh) before you have to re-fuel with propane or gasoline. Integrator… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 01/11 10:08 AM, 10 Comments

Virtually any existing light switch can be upgraded to a Z-Wave compatible device with a tiny adapter from Aeon Labs, a company that specializes in Z-Wave accessories. As demonstrated at CES 2011, the new Aeon Micro Smart Energy Switch resides behind a light switch in a junction box, bridging the switch and the powerline. With the device in place, any Z-Wave controller can remotely dim the light via wireless Z-Wave mesh networking technology. In addition, the Micro Smart Energy Switch tracks the energy usage of the attached device and reports… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/22 06:11 AM, 1 Comment

Audio Design Associates (ADA) has lots of new goodies to show off at CEDIA Expo 2010. Always a dealer favorite, the Suite line of multiroom A/V systems will be on full display, with ADA touting its newest member of the family: the Suite-32, a finalist for the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Awards. The unit can deliver 64 central/local sources to up to 96 zones. A new Profiler feature enable lets users define multiple user profiles for everything from source selection to room acoustics. In addition, ADA will show off the “most… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 06/15 11:53 PM, 0 Comments

Extron Electronics is the first U.S. manufacturer to receive EEC - Energy Efficiency Certification from UL Environment, Inc. As an acknowledged global leader in environmental qualification and certification, UL Environment acts as an independent third party to test and certify products for compliance to a broad range of domestic and international energy efficiency requirements. Several Extron engineered products now carry the EEC mark, signifying compliance with multiple government energy efficiency standards, including strict adherence to U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR Version 2.0 requirements. "We are proud to be the first US… View this story

Jason Knott | 04/21 05:17 AM, 0 Comments

It just got a whole lot less labor-intensive and less expensive for integrators to provide in-home energy monitoring solution for their clients. A new HVAC-based system from Home Comfort Zones in Beaverton, Ore., not only functions as an energy saving smart thermostat, but by adding modules it can also monitor electrical usage. As an added bonus, unlike other offerings, it can identify individual appliances without having to go through the trouble of wiring up separate line-voltage circuits or installing countless smart-outlets. Marketed as a sub-brand called EMME (Energy Management Made… View this story