People Power offers an interesting way to improve the energy efficiency of devices.

The management of this company directly states that the best way to improve the energy efficiency of various devices, not only electronics, but also household appliances, is the ability to remotely control these devices via the Internet. Recently, People Power presented a system of chips and software, Energy Services Platform, which allows you to control devices equipped with this system via the Internet. The system is quite interesting, and a more detailed description of it can be found in the continuation.

So, earlier most of the companies involved in energy efficiency, tried to provide each device that consumes energy, utilities that allow you to control energy consumption at least at home. Manage the entire system offered directly from home, thanks to a single control center.
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The technology proposed by People Power deepens this idea, allowing you to track from anywhere in the world how much energy our household and office equipment consumes. Refrigerators, copiers, televisions and other equipment - all this can be connected to the Web using the Energy Services Platform. Each device is remotely monitored, for which the program part of the Energy Services Platform is responsible.

Such a system allows, for example, to see how much a device that is connected to the Network consumes, and it is possible to disconnect excessively voracious devices not only from a personal PC or laptop, but also through a smartphone. Software that allows you to monitor power consumption, works in the "cloud", so that such a system is fault tolerant. The company even looks into the near future, suggesting that the neighbors will soon share with each other information about energy consumption, advising each other any ways to reduce electricity costs.

Connecting the device to the network is wireless, WiFi or, for example, Zigbee.

Via CNET