http://www.osnews.com/story/22722/Intel_s_Home_Dashboard_Research_Project Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:50 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?403781 http://www.osnews.com/thread?403781 So... you want to monitor energy use in your home by use of a dedicated machine? That reminds me of this Bash.org quote:

Well, they're not terribly smart.
So the aircon in the server room is overtaxed and not powerful enough to handle the heat generated by the servers.
So what are they doing?
They're putting in another server to monitor the airconditioner. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?403963 http://www.osnews.com/thread?403963 I'm not sure that you actually read the link or realize what this is. They've basically created a really pretty centralized control center for the myriad of zigbee[1] sensors and controllers.

Monitoring energy consumption is one usage, but so is centralized security system, lighting, and media control all wrapped into one pretty package. Bonus for the geeks is that it is built ontop of Linux with moblin.

[1] http://www.zigbee.org/Edited 2010-01-14 02:12 UTC Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SEJeff) Comments