(Nan’s Note: Wow! I love Apple, and I love the Smart Grid, and now they may get married so you can control your home energy! It’s just a patent, but very do-able and very necessary in my eyes. Sign me up!)
By Matthew Wheeland
Can Apple do for energy efficiency what it did for smartphones?
Although the tech world is abuzz with the much-hyped and much-prophesied Apple (”iSlate?”) Tablet, which people expect to be released later this month.
But the website Patently Apple has uncovered a patent filed by the company that suggests Steve Jobs may be looking to move into greener pastures: Home energy management.
The “Smart Home Energy Management System,” as Patently Apple calls it, covers a number of areas, including……
Read about this cool gadget at Greener Computing.
