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Remember that Withings blood pressure monitor for iOS that we went hands-on with last week? It integrated with Google Health. The search giant's health management portal also paired with dozens of other services (a heaping handful can be seen in the image above) to aggregate and track all of your data, and share it with family members, friends, and doctors. The service didn't have the widespread impact that Google expected, however, so it's taking Health offline after the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2012. You'll have another year to download your info, or send it directly to competing services.

Also on the chopping block is PowerMeter, a free energy monitoring tool that pairs with smart power meters and other energy monitoring devices to help users better understand consumption habits and ultimately reduce costs. That project will get the boot from Mountain View on September 16th, but you'll be able to log in to your account to download a CSV file. We imagine Health and PowerMeter are already plotting their trip down south, to get in a few thousand rounds of golf with Video Store at Pebble Beach. Perhaps to be joined by Buzz and Wave, in the not-so-distant future?

Google 'retires' Health and PowerMeter, lets you save your vitals through 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: We have the official PR after the break.

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Google PowerMeter comes to Blue Line Innovations' PowerCost Monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blue line innovationsBlueLineInnovationsenergy monitoringEnergyMonitoringgooglehohmmicrosoftmonitoringpower cost monitorpower monitoringPowerCostMonitorpowermeterPowerMonitoringMon, 20 Dec 2010 03:11:00 EST<![CDATA[Powering Google's PowerMeter: testing TED 5000 and AlertMe Energy]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/powering-googles-powermeter-testing-ted-5000-and-alertme-energ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/powering-googles-powermeter-testing-ted-5000-and-alertme-energ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/powering-googles-powermeter-testing-ted-5000-and-alertme-energ/#comments There are plenty of ways to be green these days, but without some sort of feedback it's hard to know just what shade you are. Enter Google's PowerMeter, a service that tells you how much current you're responsible for consuming. Why, it even shades its bar graphs in green, getting more pale the greedier you become. Google has partnerships with some utility companies in the US, Canada, and India, meaning a select few of you can do this sort of tracking by default. The rest of us were left out -- until now. Two devices on the market let you track your usage in PowerMeter regardless of just how backwards your utility company is: The Energy Detective's TED 5000 and the AlertMe Energy. We've been experimenting with these two for about a month now, finding that they serve the same purpose in very different ways and at very different costs. Click on through to see which one can best help you get greener.

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Powering Google's PowerMeter: testing TED 5000 and AlertMe Energy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>alertmealertme energyAlertmeEnergyfeaturefeaturedfeaturesgooglegoogle powermeterGooglePowermeterhands-onpowermeterreviewsmartplugted 5000Ted5000the energy detectiveTheEnergyDetectivezigbeeTue, 08 Dec 2009 12:02:00 EST<![CDATA[Google signs PowerMeter partnership with The Energy Detective, lets everyone play along]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/#commentsGoogle signs PowerMeter partnership with The Energy Detective, opens door to energy tracking nirvana It's hard to lose weight without a scale. That's more or less the idea behind Google's PowerMeter program, enabling users to view real-time power usage and unplug things accordingly to both reduce their demand and increase their feeling of eco-cockiness. Before today you needed to be getting your juice from one of a very few utility companies to audit your infos, but now you can break free thanks to a partnership with The Energy Detective. That company makes a line of straightforward power monitors that simply plug into a power outlet then connect to the internet via Ethernet to dump your kilowatt gluttony online. The TED 5000-series devices start at $200 and go up from there with optional displays and packages that allow the detection of solar or wind generation, and while they previously allowed online monitoring of power usage, this Google partnership ups their hipness by a factor of at least 10. And, if you were so cool you already bought one of these trackers before they went mainstream, you're just a firmware update away from tracking it with the Googs.

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Google signs PowerMeter partnership with The Energy Detective, lets everyone play along originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>googlegoogle powermeterGooglePowermeterpowermetertedted 5000Ted5000the energy detectiveTheEnergyDetectiveTue, 06 Oct 2009 07:32:00 EST<![CDATA[Google announces first PowerMeter partners, we beg for more]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-powermeter-partners-we-beg-for-more/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-powermeter-partners-we-beg-for-more/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/20/google-announces-first-powermeter-partners-we-beg-for-more/#comments At last, we have the first partners in Google's quest to make your personal power consumption visible on your home computer. As the thinking goes, if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. So Google wants to give consumers near real-time visibility to their consumption and usage patterns via Google's PowerMeter software and utility-supplied "smart meters." The hope here, is that those aware of their energy consumption habits will change them to save money, and in turn, the planet. The initial list of partner utilities represent millions of homes spread across cities and country-sides in the US, Canada, and India:
  • San Diego Gas & Electric(R) (California)
  • TXU Energy (Texas)
  • JEA (Florida)
  • Reliance Energy (India)
  • Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (Wisconsin)
  • White River Valley Electric Cooperative (Missouri)
  • Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (Canada)
  • Glasgow EPB (Kentucky)
Google has also partnered with Itron to embed its PowerMeter software into Itron smart meters. While we applaud the effort, seeing energy consumption for the entire house, only, is far too macro (though a good first step). What we're waiting for is the marriage of this with home automation and monitoring solutions based on Z-Wave and ZigbBee, for example, so we can gain visibility and control down to the device level. Imagine a single software view that lets you drill all the way down to see how much energy your computer, lights, or home theater projector is consuming and then shut 'em down when not in use or to avoid vampire drain. Hey Nokia, you're working on a Home Control Center... you reading this? Google's looking for partners.

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Google announces first PowerMeter partners, we beg for more originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 May 2009 03:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>energy savingEnergySavingenvironmentgooglegreenitronpower consumptionpower savingPowerConsumptionpowermeterPowerSavingsmart metersSmartMetersutilitiesWed, 20 May 2009 03:25:00 EST<![CDATA[NYT: Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/#comments The New York Times is reporting Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that'll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there's a means to upload the data. That part of the equation's gonna be up to other companies to create compatible devices, and while no manufacturing partners have been named, we'd suspect strange bedfellow GE will probably jump aboard pretty quickly. The service is expected to roll out in the next few months. Ready to give the boys in Mountain View even more access to your life?

Update: The official site has launched. According to the FAQ, PowerMeter is currently in closed beta. There's also a video about the program, which you can peep after the break.

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NYT: Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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