If you’ve been longing to turn your iPhone into a more useful gadget, and using it for something other than just making calls, this is for you. Current State software, will allow your iPhone to monitor the power usage and energy waste of your entire house.
It allows your iPhone to turn power plugs on and off, activate timers and keep track of everything. All you need to do is to install plug-ends on power sockets and sync to your iPhone. The application will show you a map of all the power wastage hot spots, so you can make changes and save more power. It sounds great, but unfortunately it is a concept at the moment, but now that the idea has been presented, someone will make it come true.
[Shiny Shiny] VIA [Ubergizmo]
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What sorts of things would people want to turn on and off remotely? I guess there might be instances when you’d want to switch something on so that it was on when someone (you or a guest) arrived in the house, but as for energy saving - it’d be a lot easier to install a switch that made it easy for you to turn unnecessary stuff off before you left the house than it would be to leave the house and then mince about turning things off from somewhere else.
Probably I’m missing some obvious benefits, and sure, it does sound cool. However it doesn’t sound like it could be an energy-saving gadget to me!