KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

摘要

When James Wilson finds out his daughter will be coming home for a visit, the first thing he does is reprogram his house. Wilson, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, logs on to a web interface and leaves instructions for the air conditioning in her bedroom to turn on before she gets home and turn off after she heads back to university. Then he forgets about it, Wilson's home is fitted with state-of-the-art smart grid technology. A smart meter records his electricity consumption at 15-minute intervals and, through the web interface, he can view how much he's used every hour of the day, He can use the interface to control the four smart thermostats in his house, creating detailed time and temperature profiles.