Using the web to track power consumption at home is something several companies are working on at the moment (including Google). Tokyo-based startup Sassor is developing a solution that offers two big selling points: their so-called Energy Literacy Platform (ELP) [English link] lets you track each household appliance individually and makes it possible to turn these devices off remotely, for example by pushing a button on your smartphone.
The Energy Literacy Platform is based on the idea that by empowering consumers with a tool that informs them how much energy their appliances really use, they will start saving energy. The platform consists of three parts:
The modules change their color over time, from green to yellow and finally to red, as you approach the energy limit you previously set on the ELP website or app (see below).
On the web, your energy consumption is visualized in more detail, helping you to track the exact amount of energy (and money) consumed by each device in real-time. What’s cool is that you can turn off things while on-the-go through the ELP website or the smartphone app, for example if you forgot to turn off the lights in your house.
The Energy Literacy Platform Project has come out of Japanese seed acceleration program Open Network Lab (which we covered extensively here). Maker Sassor, run by a group of students from Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design in Tokyo, expects to launch the platform in summer next year.
Energy Literacy Platform is a tool that tells us how much electricity we use at home. Saving electricity is both environmentally and economically friendly but very few people truly understand its impact—most people do not know how much energy is consumed by each electronic appliance and how much electricity we are saving by regularly turning off the power switch. For most of us, we only think about our electricity consumption when we receive our electric bill. But even these...
Open Network Lab is a seed acceleration program in Japan, similar to Y Combinator and TechStars, established by Netprice.com, Digital Garage, and Kakaku.com. The lab’s mission is to create a global startup ecosystem, allowing startups in Japan to receive mentorship and funding from overseas. Teams accepted into its three-month seed accelerator program are given 1 million yen ($12,800) in funding, office space, mentoring and access to its extensive network of entrepreneurs and partners. In return, limited partners of Open Network Lab...
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