Open Source Startup Developing Device to Link Home Appliances Over LAN
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People Power, a new open source-based green tech startup launches today with the goal of helping people reduce their carbon footprint and control energy consumption in their homes. More than just a cost-analysis Web site that lets you compare and contrast the cost of using various appliances, People Power is also developing devices that communicate wirelessly to connect a home's appliances with a specially designed local network, so users can track energy use in real-time.
The benefit to consumers is readily apparent -- lower energy bills and better stewardship of our earth's resources -- but the company also points out how developers can benefit from involvement in the People Power project as well.
* Create a community based on our Open Source Home Area Network (OSHAN).
* Embed OSHAN technology into any device, appliance or hub.
* Lower development costs and increased access to our long-range, low-power technology platform.
“We hope to spur a wave of innovation by creating this free platform with free software and low-cost hardware widely available. It will help lower our cost of development because we’ll have a community that is working on the technology for free,” founder and CEO Gene Wang told Justin Moresco of Earth2Tech.com
The company recently closed a round of Series A funding and plan to use the cash to "support commercialization of the company’s inaugural product offering. Research projects with U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University will focus collaboration on open source implementations of wireless sensor networks used in home energy monitoring and control."
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