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.
I think that was actually Loral.
Soon as they figure out how.
Most states are working on putting meters on private wells. It’s already that way in most of the NE.
But...but...but weren't we just Luddites for not wanting these?
Not good for the elderly. This will lead to more deaths. Not that the fascists in government would care.
What are the demographics of South Sioux City? Their IQ seems to be substantially sub-normal.
Apparently.
And we were paranoid to think they might be saving our electricity usage information for later data mining. Perish the thought!
I guess I remembered that that particular division of Loral was bought from Honeywell.
But you are correct, it was Loral.
(But Honeywell will continue to stick in my mind...)
When Zero became Resident, he said our thermostats should NOT be set as high as 72. When it was discovered that he had the White Hut set much higher, the excuse was that he was from Hawaii and needed more heat. He hadn’t lived in Hawaii for years, so how many years does it take to acclimate to a colder area?
I’m from the government and we’re here to - help its 13,000 residents.
Tin foil? I've read where people are insulating around them for some reason. They're building some kind of thick, insulated box around them inside their homes.
Honeywell, BTW, has a camera lens no bigger than a flea that has mutable "eyes". It views everything like the eye of a fly. I know that's a fact, because I worked on the project that developed them decades ago.
What’s next, government controlled flushers for your toilets?
I think Michelle Obama is working to get control of that issue a little bit further up stream
Gas, coal or oil? Oh wait, I guess none of those would create a brown out or blackout.
I got my free obumastat but I still live under a bridge.
If the ‘city’ is going to ‘set’ our thermostats, then the ‘city’ should pay the utility bills.
If we’re going COMMIE, let’s go all the way.
There’s no place like home,There’s no place like home...
oops wrong state. I did have a 1 in 57 chance.
“”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.”
I think that was Hughes and Loral, not Honeywell.
Already done in many cities.
And a balloon payment to return service.
Been that way before the 'wireless' meters.
"Is Nest, like Hal, also watching what you do? You bet. I found this on their privacy page:
“We collect data from several sensors built into the Nest Learning Thermostat. These sensors register things like the current temperature, humidity, and ambient light in the room. They can also sense whether something in the room is moving. We also store PII about your use of the product, including sensor data and your inputs from mobile and other devices on our cloud servers.” PII is the abbreviation of personally identifiable information.
So, while Nest is managing the temperature, it is also keeping tabs of your movement and collecting various other bits of information about your home and sends that back to a central server."
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