Smart House, Smart Grid

While we are focused on the shiny advancements in self-driving cars, Denmark is busy making signifcant progress in smart electric grid and smart home technology.

"Let’s see some of the technical solutions that we have. If you, for example, open a window—there‘s no heat on—but if you open it, there’s a switch here that says “window is open.” Then the computer knows, I will turn off the heat. You don’t have to turn it off. This is the meter. Somebody might call it a smart meter. To say it in another word, this one knows the clock, knows the time. The old ones didn’t know what time the energy was used. This one, every 5 minutes looks at and analyzes the energy consumption..."

Spectrum Podcast: Danish Island Tests Smart Grid