Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![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.

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