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Google PowerMeter
- colinprince 17y agoI can almost imagine Google's inquisitive feelers crawling out of my computer, down my power cord, into the electric wiring up to my meter. They never supply something for free unless it will provide them the data they crave. Yes I know, "No personally identifying information will be shared" blah blah blah but this such an obvious data grab.
- sundeep 17y agoThey never supply something for free unless it will provide them the data they crave. Why should they supply you anything for free?
- colinprince 17y agoWhy should they supply you anything for free? If you're implying that I'm suggesting Google should give me something for free, I'm not. Just orienting this "service" in a way that shows that the users are, freely, giving something to Google.
- sundeep 17y agoI didn't mean to come off as short. This seems to be a mutually beneficial service. The users stand to gain as can be seen from the testimonials here http://www.google.org/powermeter/demoproject.html http://www.google.org/powermeter/demoproject.html So the users aren't giving away anything freely. Google obviously gains , with hard data about consumer usage.
- Retric 17y agoThey can make money just from eyeballs, so they don't need to use data. Normally Google looks for data that increase the value of advertizing space but I don't have any idea what they can do with you electric meater numbers.
- access_denied 17y agoGoogle grabs for data to improve results for their AI . The more data, the better AI works; exponentianally more so than when improving algorythm.
- sundeep 17y agoThe data could be useful ... There could a lot of data gleaned about TV viewers , for example .. by analyzing power usage trends during tv show times. If a show is watched more , then advertisers would want to target that show more ...
- likpok 17y agoThis is google.org as opposed to google.com, so it might just be philanthropy.
- bluefish 17y agoThis is something I've wanted to work on for months, but I lack the EE experience to do the physical side of things. Great to see it happening though.
- wmf 17y agoThe clever thing is that there is no EE side; Google just imports power data from the utilities.
- drewjohnson 17y agoBob Cringely has an interesting opinion about this (http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/ http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/).
- pkulak 17y agoThat looks pretty cool. I've been toying with buying one of these for months: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ELJKLE http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ELJKLE