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by compumike
4201 days ago
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The connected lightbulb example is great. That's IoT as a novelty; it adds few/trivial new capabilities, and it adds a lot of inconvenience. The flipside of this is IoT as a superpower: finding applications where you can truly use technology to give people a new ability that they didn't have before. From the personal side, this IoT novelty versus superpower discrepancy is something we thought a lot about as we brought Pantelligent to the world (note: co-founder, https://www.pantelligent.com/ ). Our superpower is to let anyone cook great food, perfectly every time, through science. For us, the smartphone was the perfect user interface, because people are already in the kitchen with smartphone in one hand and spatula in the other! But our integration with the Pebble smartwatch hints at an even better future fit; the Pebble is great for cooking because it's waterproof, and it lets us bring real-time cooking data and instructions right to your wrist, even if your hands are busy. |
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I have solar panels. I need to regulate energy use to be as much during the day as possible (on sunny days) but keep the total load below 3kw at any time (otherwise I need to go to the grid for extra power).
Make me a system that can turn on the dishwasher, washing machine, pool pump etc at the right time to minimize my electricity bill.
Bonus cred for checking the weather in my exact location, and taking into account coming cloud cover.
I'd pay up to $500 for such a device IF it also generated stats and told me how much solar energy I used as well as my export to the grid.