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D-link is a massive company that has network switches, routers, cameras and a ton of other things. They’ve recently fixed their home security monitoring system to include energy systems, utilizing third party electrical plugs. Honestly it felt like energy monitoring was a bit of an after thought for them, but apparently their system was nominated for the best in innovation award for CES.
Energyhub is the startup of the mix. They have a nice display and outlet covers running over Zigbee. They’ve closed a recent funding round and have another in the wings. They will have some tough competition from the bigger players if they can’t get going fast enough, but their units looked very professional and ready for consumers to start buying.
Marvell has a nice looking device that will be out in Home Depot shortly. It works over wifi and displays the usage of all outlets and whatnot, along with also controlling your lawns sprinkler systems if you have such a thing. They were the furthest along in development and said they will be in Home Depots sometime in the next few months, at a pretty low cost.
Oregon Scientific. Looks very sexy but haven’t seen it in person yet.
There are probably other devices out there, but I haven’t had a chance to meet them all. What is really interesting about these devices is that eventually they will be in almost every home, regardless of whether you are geeky or not as new contractors and energy companies start to roll them out for consumer usage.
I’m going to the ‘Asia rooms’ today to meet with manufacturers of different things. They might have some cool toys in there as well. Follow my Twitter updates if you want to keep up with me real time.]]>
Some cool things at CES missed by the major media