Tag: smart-home
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Cool idea: IMEON solar inverters can control Phillips Hue LED smart lights
IMEON ENERGY is a French manufacturer of solar hybrid inverters that also develops software solutions to reduce the cost of kWh generated by solar installations with storage. The idea is to make customers more conscious of energy autonomy. The company’s latest innovation in that realm is a neat concept: The “LED SmartRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Home That Moves With You
Dr. Jeff Wilson, who awhile ago made a home out of a dumpster in order to learn more about sustainable living, has used his findings and knowledge to co-create an urban micro home. The Kasita, as this home is called, is designed for city life, yet can still be moved on a whim by the…
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fluxHome Combines Passive and Active Principles for Net Zero Energy Use
One of four teams that are representing California in the 2013 Solar Decathlon, Team USC (from the University of Southern California) will be submitting its fluxHome, a net zero prototype, as an entry in the competition to be held in October 2013 in Irvine, California. fluxHome reimagines the suburban tract home in an energy efficient…
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Will Future Smart Home Remind Us To Take Our Meds?
A Washington State University Professor has been testing out various smart home technologies, one monitors whether elderly patients are taking their medicines.