GE’s Connected Home of the Future

By Preston on Jan. 8, 2011 | Topics: Energy Efficiency, Gadgets | 4 Comments

GE unveiled a panoply of home technology at CES this week. The company’s taking an aggressive approach with smart green products and may just capture the heart of Americans everywhere. If GE’s vision comes true, here’s some of what will connect the home of the future:

Energy Manager

The GE Nucleus energy manager (with Brillion technology), a communication and data storage device, talks with the smart meter to provide users electricity cost and use information to enable energy efficiency. Future software upgrades will enable water, natural gas, and renewable energy monitoring.

Energy Display

The energy display provides near real-time energy consumption information in the form of kilowatt-hours and estimated dollars spent.

Smart Appliances

GE Profile appliances (with Brillion technology) reacts to utility pricing in order to shift consumed wattage to lower-cost, non-peak periods. This technology will be available in refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, ranges, microwaves, etc.

Efficient Lighting

Energy-efficient lighting includes the new 9-watt GE Energy Smart LED, a 40-watt equivalent light that is expected to last nearly 22 years.

EV Charging

The GE WattStation will help homeowners power up in as little as 4-8 hours while the car is parked at night or otherwise not in use.

Small Wind Power

With an investment from GE, Southwest Windpower’s new Skystream 600 is smart-grid enabled and could provide up to 80% of energy for the average home.

Credits: GE.

Article tags: GE

About Preston: Founder/Chief Editor of Jetson Green. Preston is an entrepreneur, innovator, and LEED AP living near the mountains of Salt Lake City, Utah. You can follow him on Twitter at @JetsonGreen or connect on Facebook at JetsonGreen.

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I can’t wait until these items are available to the public. Any idea of cost
Jeepingetowah

I totally want one of these. Since I am building my house from scratch out of a shipping container, I hope I can get one. As long as the price is reasonable.

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