Hi,
Have you thought about linking with IFTTT? I think you’d be the only energy company that did so. It’d be most useful for when you roll out your smart meter, and you’d be able to pipe data like CO2 saved per time period, cost per time period, etc etc.
So you could have applets like “tweet how much carbon dioxide I haven’t added to the atmosphere today”, “add the cost of my electricity for today/this week/this year to a google spreadsheet”, “if my electricity cost goes above xx pence today, turn down my Honeywell/Nest thermostat by yy degrees”.
It’d give you a USP, and would appeal to nerds like me.
This is an awesome idea. I wonder how far this could go; is there any scope for smart meters to provide an API in addition to exposing it via IFTTT? A “Bulb developer community” could be very powerful =)
Talk from Head of Technology Research at Tesco Labs. Around 8:20 he mentions use of an electricity monitor to track usage of various appliances in the home. Would be very interesting to see an API expose electricity usage at high enough resolution to identify individual appliances - https://youtu.be/cXK8YALMA9k