Digital Home Thoughts: Hohm is Where the Efficiency is

This is all well and good, but the value of the site remains low for most US residents. Although residents of parts of California, Washington, and the Midwest can connect their utility providers directly to Hohm, providing more accurate monitoring, for most the option is unavailable.

The Microsoft Hohm service is a neat site that offers the ability to track your power consumption. While it is still in development, and of course, very unlikely to be seen in Canada, it is definitely a good service. Being able to identify your power consumption patterns can go a long way to reducing it. If helping the environment is not enough of an incentive, it can help you save money! It does not offer the ability to track things down to the per device level, but it is a start. I am hoping that some day, a company will come out with a product that will allow very detailed power consumption that can run through something like Z-Wave.