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Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much energy your home is consuming. Google PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and in-home energy management devices and visualizes this information for you on iGoogle (your personalized Google homepage). And, Google PowerMeter is free.

Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities. Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters. So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage.

"Bienvenue dans Power4You, un service permettant d'obtenir l'électricité et le gaz à des conditions très favorables pour les consommateurs."

Ca fait longtemps que le buzz est passé sur le net. J'arrive trois semaines plus tard. Toutefois, pour ceux qui ne l'ont pas encore vu, voyez comment nous nous avons fait et faisons encore plumer par cette belle entreprise respectueuse de l'environnement et donneuse de conseils !