The University of California Demand Response project was featured on ABC 7 news in San Francisco for their pioneering work to reduce energy consumption across the state, preventing blackouts and protecting the environment. Nate Ota, a graduate student, described the system that receives information from the power company and then uses it to inform wireless thermostats and sensors placed throughout a house. The intelligent sensors use the information to decide when to use energy and when to conserve.

The University is using Tmote Sky motes in their prototype system, which can be seen in the video.

To view the segment, fast forward to 4:40 into the video below:

mms://MEDIA.citris.berkeley.edu/Energy-on-demand

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