Oregon Scientific, traditionally known for its innovative weather gadgets, has started a new Energy Monitoring and Conservation line, which provides consumers with tools to monitor energy usage trends and save energy in the home. The company sites U.S. Department of Energy data which estimates that monitoring electricity can help consumers reduce usage by up to 15 percent translating to lower utility bills and a smaller carbon footprint.
One of the company’s new products for 2010 – intro’d at this week’s CES – is the Advanced Wireless Appliance Manager: an innovative appliance manager that monitors power consumption, carbon emissions, and the real-time costs of up to eight appliances. The device can also provide long-term energy use trend info.
The eco gadget features an alarm that alerts the user when they inevitably exceed their energy consumption goal. MSRP: $99
source: prnewswire
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This year the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show is billing itself as an Eco-friendly extravaganza.
Evidently lots of the chemicals that were previously being used have been eliminated or packaged in a certain way to prevent land fill leakage.
I am aware that Oregonians are particularly environmentally conscious, so my hope is that this power use tracker is built in such a way so as not to be a problem item in land fills.
It would be ironic that a device meant to help folks be more Earth friendly would turn out to be a problem in and of itself.
Black and Decker has a cool energy monitor too, which I’ve used. Not nearly as pretty looking though!