Posted on 06/12/2013 7:03:14 AM PDT by biggerten
Honeywell has announced a new Wi-Fi-controlled thermostat that is intended to be distributed by municipalities instead of purchased at retail by consumers in order to better manage energy consumption across a town or city.
South Sioux City, Neb., will be the first community to deploy the new thermostat to help its 13,000 residents manage electricity costs, which are said to have risen steadily there in the past three years.
In the future, other municipalities will recruit residents to reduce energy consumption when demand spikes, a strategy known as automated demand response, or ADR.
As part of this, the residents would receive the $150 Honeywell Total Connect Comfort with ADR thermostat for free so that utilities can link to the home devices and reduce that residence's energy as needed.
Such an approach can help avoid brownouts and blackouts on the hottest days of the year, when power-grid stability is threatened.
Honeywell's thermostat can be controlled with a Total Connect Comfort app, available in versions for Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
Honeywell is based in Morris Township, N.J., but its division responsible for the Total Connect Comfort technology is based in Golden Valley.
Just sayin'.
OH no!!! NO! NO! NO!!!
Will it work with my wood burning stove?
“Oh Lordy. I see a free thermostat in everybody’s future.
Just sayin’.”
Count on it.
We have a stupid, compliant public, and a complicit media. There is very little that they won’t do to control the public, and it will be accepted as being for the greater good.
“Will it work with my wood burning stove?”
Nope, but the EPA will soon have an answer for that.
What we’ve been telling people about smart meters for years now. It has nothing to do with saving you money.
South Sioux City, Neb., will be the first community to deploy the new thermostat to help its 13,000 residents manage electricity costs, which are said to have risen steadily there in the past three years.
What happened to Nebraska???The people there cannot control their own thermostats?
WTH!!!!
Honeywell you have now stated your solidarity with the commie Agenda 21 objective. I will no longer buy any of your products.
Honeywell can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
A number of years ago, I went into a fast food joint during a northern Arizona blizzard. It was freezing in that joint. We asked if they could turn up the heat a little bit and they told us that the thermostat was controlled by somebody in California. Weird.
I have heard of some such pilot program down in the Peoples Republic of Austin. Just mind boggling.
What’s next, government controlled flushers for your toilets?
Now Big Bro wants to control MY thermostat. What's next, controlling my bowel movements?
Get ready to be sweltering or shivering in your homes courtesy of your government thermostat. Obama told us that we cannot be setting our thermostats at 72 as we must save the world from climate change and manbearpig.
The nice thing about ditching the city for rural areas is that you are really very much off their radar. They go for the low hanging fruit of the tens of millions of city dwellers.
Heck, my STATE doesn’t even have a smog check to get your tabs. I even burn my garbage. Government only cares about this stuff if it affects people in areas where there are lots of people per square mile. Those of us in the rural areas only get sucked in when they pass statewide laws like mandatory seat belts.
It is why there is so much truth to the phrase, “I gave up a high standard of living for a high quality of life.”
“What happened to Nebraska???The people there cannot control their own thermostats?
WTH!!!!”
A stupid, compliant public. The American public strongly desires an all knowing nanny state to control their lives.
The left has won. We’re simply watching the death of a nation.
Ha. Try shutting down my swamp cooler dipwads. It ain’t connected to no thermostat.
Somebody hasn’t heard the government controlled electricity and heat in individual homes are the stuff of conspiracy theory. /s
On the horizion will be water meters that shut you down after so many gallons of usage.
And a balloon payment to return service.
Just now?
"Honeywell" bribed Bill Clinton for a retroactive waiver after they told the Chicoms how to fix their rocket program problems so as to better target the US.
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