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$50 with no recurring revenue is well covered by lots of cheap, simple, inaccurate meters. See http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitoring-too
by gridspy 17y ago
$50 with no recurring revenue is well covered by lots of cheap, simple, inaccurate meters. See http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitoring-tools/ http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/10/07/list-of-energy-monitorin...
As a price example, here is a direct competitor:
http://www.luciddesigngroup.com/starter.php http://www.luciddesigngroup.com/starter.php
$10,000 USD up front, $2,000 per annum recurring.
And here is WattVision, which has the "all the benefits (and weaknesses) of a smart meter, available today" http://www.wattvision.com/ http://www.wattvision.com/
Also, GridSpy is far simpler than many competitors. If you are suggesting that we provide a device so you can create your own site to receive data, the creating a site part is not simple for 99% of the population.
Thanks for highlighting how we need to shift the language on the site so it is obvious it is priced for industrial power monitoring. Also thanks for your input.
- jacquesm 17y agoI don't understand something then. You are asking the people here if they would pre-order grid-spy, but the majority (the large majority) of your audience here has absolutely no application for industrial power monitoring, unless they run their own data centers, I think just about all your respondents took it in the context of their regular home power consumption, unless I'm reading them wrong. If you want to know about the reception in that segment of the market then HN is the wrong place to ask, a gathering of captains of industry in the manufacturing or the retail end of things would be a better target.
- gridspy 17y agoYeah, I totally agree. It did foster some interesting discussion though, which is what I really wanted. I thought perhaps there might be some early adopters here interested in the data and how they could use it. There are easy ways to meet captains of industry, chief among them power saving associations such as http://www.eeca.govt.nz/ http://www.eeca.govt.nz/