Google is best known for its search engine strategy, and how they reinvented the search market.
Now Google has entered the energy space. And they might just reinvent the energy ecosystem. Google wants to be in your home, watching the energy on all your devices - refrigerators, dish washers, the always-running TV, computers, anything you want to monitor. And then after it collects all this junk - well you know Google, they save everything. Soon you'll be able to compare your energy usage to your neighbors.
You can read all the details on what Google is planning on their energy page.
I just noticed this article on EDN about what Google plans to do.
Hey didn't Eric Schmidt back Obama and isn't he one of his economic and energy advisors?
Now Google is making a good pitch here, because until now the energy companies hoarded all of your data. Don't you deserve to know how you are spending your energy dollars?
This will be the buzz for the next few weeks - at least.
You will here this phrase over and over (like "Wall st. to Main st" - I cringe everytime I hear this phrase anymore)...
"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it." - Lord Kelvin
I'll be posting more on some services and energy trials going on in different areas of the country. Stay tuned.
I know our CEO (the energy one) is measuring lots of things.
So what do you think of Google's plan for the energy space?
Funny, I was just thinking about this the other day. I would love to see these kind of power statistics on my own house.
Fascinating. Just proves out what Friedman wrote in his book, The World is Flat: Google is like God; it's everywhere and knows everything.
And the next new thing will be a "sin tax" on energy consumption..!!