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Is your house smarter than you? In some ways, it probably already is, and building technology is developing all the time to improve on that intelligence. Your house is a system, and all the parts work together. In fact, many or most of its parts already work without your even knowing how they do it. Energy costs more during peak times, but consumers aren�t aware of how much they use during the expensive times since their usage is typically calculated on a monthly basis. A smart meter shows actual current usage � real time information � about the price of electricity so you can �talk to� and program your house based on what you know. It�s long overdue that we have a meter that helps consumers manage their energy consumption. But for a house to be really smart, I think we need to do more. We need to make more intelligent choices about where we are getting that energy in the first place. A smart meter is (so far) all about tracking energy consumption from the grid. What if you incorporated solar or wind technology to help offset what you use from the grid? What if your house was smart enough to know when electricity was costing you more, and could choose instead to use backup power stored in batteries? What if it could take advantage of the higher peak prices of power to sell it back to the grid � in effect making you money? Now that�s a smart house. Vancouver Sun & Province Document Service InfoLine:
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Source: Les Twarog and Sonja Pederson