Power, Accountability I

Dec 20, 2008

An unwitting leading edge case - every vending machine in this building includes it's own electricity meter to track individual power usage.

Whilst the use of electricity meters is common place - what if every device that consumed power was required to display its power consumption? Or power consumption in relation to levels of use? In an increasingly networked world where consumers/legislation demands that the machine's owner disclose energy use what level of information would be made available through an API? How competitors would take advantage of the information disclosure? And how this affects the accuracy of what is actually disclosed?

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 Japan »  Tokyo »  Shinagawa Keywords:
 carbon footprint | electricity | meter | power | vending machine