Melissa Baldridge, of GreenSpot, reviews smart, automated home products that can drive significant energy and water savings. The Nest “learning” thermostat triggered its dawn in 2011, and ex-Apple engineers who founded Nest Labs the year prior jolted a nerdy industry like HVAC with Nest’s jewel-like design and cell phone control. Since the … [Read more...]
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The Jetsons’ Age of the Automated Home is Here, and it’s Looking Gooood.
December 19, 2014 By admin
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How Lighting Controls Improve Microgrids
October 17, 2014 By admin

By Andy Wakefield, Lutron Electronics The Challenge The Smart Grid, a reference to the modernization of the national electricity supply system, is an automated electric power system that monitors and controls grid activities, ensuring the two-way flow of electricity and information between power plants and consumers—and all points in … [Read more...]