Smart Cities and Monitoring Clean Energy

At THRIVEX, we are always looking to partner with teams using energy in a cleaner, more sustainable way. Recently, scientists at MIT have invented a way for homes to monitor their energy output in a simple device:

The stamp-size sensor self-calibrates and is capable of monitoring individual appliances courtesy of software developed by the team, even going so far as isolating time segments, like when a refrigerator goes into defrost mode. It also relies only minimally on cloud-based servers, in an attempt to both increase user privacy and reduce the bandwidth expended by sending that much information back and forth — a fact that sets it apart from offerings by larger companies.

Devices like these are important because they can create a network. Instead of monitoring a single house, it will be possible to monitor the energy use of entire cities. In a world where cities are rapidly becoming smarter, energy usage will play an increasingly important function.