A new extension of the Wi-LEM (Wireless Local Energy Meter) family now allows remote measurement and monitoring of electricity, water, and other metered utilities, as well as temperature and humidity.

Hackers love to monitor things. Whether it’s the outside temperature or the energy used to take a shower, building a sensor and displaying a real-time graph of the data is hacker heaven. But the most ...

MUSKEGON, MI – Consumers Energy has launched a new website for its customers with new electric service “smart meters” to check daily electrical usage. The company also has updated the roll out of the ...

Want a closer, more honest relationship with your energy consumption? An energy monitor could be the answer. Traditionally, calculating energy usage in the home has been something of a dark art – from ...

The company's low-cost ION 7300-series products now offer MeterM@il(r) e-mail messaging and WebMeter(r) web-browser support - advanced communications features that use the Internet to support ...

Google connects its PowerMeter Web-based energy tool to a monitoring device, which means that consumers don't need to have smart meters for real-time energy tracking. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

The first step to reducing the energy consumption of your home is figuring out how much you actually use in the first place. After all, you need a baseline to compare against when you start making ...

When MEP engineering firm Glumac set up a new office space on the ground floor of an existing high-rise in Irvine, CA, the company had an ambitious goal even before the move-in — to certify the new ...

The use of smart meters to enforce water restrictions could encourage widespread conservation — but not without local backlash, a new study has found. Amid California’s ongoing drought, researchers ...