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EETimes.com - Researchers ready personal energy monitoring devices
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Researchers at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory are developing a device that will record people's daily energy consumption, including how they travel, the heating and appliances they use and also the indirect energy they use from the manufacture of food and goods that they consume.

The project is part of a wider research programme at the University called Computing for the Future of the Planet.

Dubbed the Personal Energy Meter (PEM), the research team suggests the final version could be a separate device or one embedded into a mobile phone.

"The research is in its early stages and personal energy meters will never become compulsory but the growing awareness of personal responsibility to the environment combined with the popularity of social networking and willingness to share information make the idea of PEM an achievable goal," says Professor Andy Hopper who heads up the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218000032

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    • JDP JDP
      8 months ago


      Enabling a "personal carbon tax"!? Cell phone as big brother.
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      • Geoffrey Ames Geoffrey Ames
        8 months ago


        Well, if you get-off the grid and live off the land, big brother won't be able to track you... Believe it or not: life without a cellphone or a computer is possible.
        Actually, I like the idea of a personal carbon tax. Currently, I've reduced and continue to reduce my carbon footprint... so far that's just for the greater good. I do that because i'm concerned about intergenerational equity. But what about people who lack any sense of social responsibility/ethics? What will compel them to reduce their carbon footprints, short of economic incentives?
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        • JDP JDP
          8 months ago


          Prefer the carbon cost built into the product, rather than via monitoring based on the person ... whose data can always lead to individual, corporate (ads), and government abuses, which include mistakes as well as possible venality.
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