{"id":81,"date":"2009-09-03T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-09-03T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:55:47","slug":"idea-powerline-networked-outletsswitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/idea-powerline-networked-outletsswitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea: Powerline-networked Outlets\/Switches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" title=\"Power Outlet Cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/4649947_15743ac8971.jpg\" alt=\"Power Outlet Cropped\" width=\"250\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the advent of powerline LAN from various manufacturers for a steadily decreasing price, designing network-connected products becomes much easier. Once the price of hardware for powerline networking drops due to wide acceptance, some standard &#8220;dumb&#8221; appliances and pieces of hardware could be easily and cheaply networked, allowing for a &#8220;home automation&#8221; of sorts, such as lightswitches and power outlets.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We already have twittering &#8220;tweet-a-watts,&#8221; but powerline networking could extend this functionality and add control to every switch and outlet in one&#8217;s house. Just think&#8211;a house having all of its outlets and switches networked would be fully customizable, controllable, and monitorable. A homeowner could see power usage on a per-outlet (or even per-plug!) basis, which could make saving electricity much easier. In addition, power outlets and switches could be actively controlled over the network, allowing a computer to regulate power savings by, let&#8217;s say turning off or dimming a light, completely autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>Despite many utility providers beginning to deploy &#8220;smart meters&#8221; (meters that let report, and often let you see, your power usage), monitoring power on a per-outlet basis still has great advantages. The &#8220;smart meter&#8221; can only report the energy usage of an entire household, and homeowners must unplug devices and check their energy usage monitor to determine how much power a device is using. With networked outlets and switches, users could see power usage on a per-outlet basis on a single screen, live. Networked outlets and switches could provide crucial energy-saving information to homeowners, saving them money and saving the earth from pollution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit:<a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kk\/\"> http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kk\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the advent of powerline LAN from various manufacturers for a steadily decreasing price, designing network-connected products becomes much easier. Once the price of hardware for powerline networking drops due to wide acceptance, some standard &#8220;dumb&#8221; appliances and pieces of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/idea-powerline-networked-outletsswitches\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,12,23,24],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-energy","tag-hardware","tag-idea","tag-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNjAs-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protofusion.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}