Intel's Atom-powered home energy dashboard concept gets itself a website, no closer to retail reality

If you recall all the way back to last week -- yes, it's a bit of a blur to us, too -- Intel CEO Paul Otellini brought to his keynote an Atom-powered home monitor system, demonstrated by him and his rockstar compadre Craig. It was actually quite impressive, and thankfully Intel's gone ahead and launched an educational page for the Intelligent Home Energy Management Proof of Concept. The specs break down as follows: a gorgeous 11.5-inch capacitive OLED touch screen, Z530 processor, motion sensor and video camera support, stereo audio, WiFi, and Zigbee integration. Throw in an open API and we're pretty sold on this -- assuming it was real, of course, and at this point it's nothing more than a teaser of things to come. Hit up the source link and expect a notable uptick in your longing for the future.

[Bowsa Posted Jan 11th 2010 6:48PM]

Good morning Mr.Smith

[aristotle98 Posted Jan 11th 2010 7:03PM]

@Bowsa Can you shut off your telescreen? inner party member

[Matthew Posted Jan 11th 2010 8:53PM]

@Bowsa
Reminded me more of Dr. Steve Bruhle.

In all seriousness, the OLED screen worries me--given the lighting system used in such displays, they generally rely on GUIs with black backgrounds (and they have). As a result, that thing is going to be marred with fingerprints all the time...

Also, Z530? Why not go with Moorestown, or at least mention intentions of using it? Menlow kinda flopped, so this would be a good proof-of-concept to showcase the new chipset.

In the end, it's a concept piece--I just hope that this thing reaches the market in a more efficient form. I wouldn't mind pay a little extra since the idea and implementation are already pretty solid.

[Information Central Posted Jan 11th 2010 9:11PM]

Not to mention that OLED wears out, which is routinely ignored in articles heralding the arrival of yet another one.

[Scape3d Posted Jan 11th 2010 6:55PM]

Damn that UI looks delicious.

[WilliamTM Posted Jan 11th 2010 6:58PM]

Hm. This is one of those things that I wonder about - why wasn't it around many many many years ago? It's 2010 and we're only just getting this. Absurd.

Anyway, I want one. Right now.

[a dark day Posted Jan 11th 2010 7:47PM]

relax will.... its not like tech just crashes in new mexico deserts. wait... i just typed that.

[a dark day Posted Jan 11th 2010 7:50PM]

relax will, its not like tech just crashes into new mexico deserts.

[Zinn Posted Jan 11th 2010 7:02PM]

Sweet! I love the idea!

[Peter F Posted Jan 11th 2010 7:03PM]

ARM would probably work better for this. Less power usage.

[dez Posted Jan 11th 2010 8:45PM]

@Peter F

have fun running windows apps. Oh wait...

[tinytom Posted Jan 11th 2010 8:07PM]

Do you need an open API, when they've just announced an their APPUp Centre? He mentions apps in the vid + theyve got a new app store. Looks like some companies DO talk internally!

[mtnDewFTW Posted Jan 11th 2010 9:15PM]

I would definitely want that in my house.
Those look so awesome, and I have always wanted one ever since I saw iRobot. wait, that's the movie it was in, right?

Well, I guess we gotta wait 20 or 40 more years until they actually roll this out for the average consumer.

[FallenArms3 Posted Jan 11th 2010 9:25PM]

The solution to home energy saving: make your lightswitch use power as well?

[whatevs Posted Jan 11th 2010 9:39PM]

anyone else notice that the graphic shows an open lock and says "security system: on"?

[ThePreserver Posted Jan 12th 2010 2:07AM]

I would love to have one of these, and then to remotely access it with an iPhone app..

[geekthree Posted Jan 12th 2010 11:12AM]

@ThePreserver

Yes, then shortly after, the android, webOS and Blackberry apps (In no specific order) because all the non-iphone users will be like "WHERE TEH FUXORZ IS MAI APPZ?!?!"...

No fanboyism.. just an observaition, check the Engadget iphone app release page comments..

[DeviantmacG Posted Jan 12th 2010 4:55AM]

Sweet, I want my house to be all Intel Powerd ahhah

[GrumpyFinn Posted Jan 12th 2010 8:40AM]

I say linuxMCE did all this a long time ago