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"It's not easy to design a home energy monitoring device that people actually want to use and pay for. As evidenced by Tendril's recent decision to nix its IDEO-designed dashboard, not even slick devices that look like they came straight from the Apple store will necessarily make it to market (the $200 price tag was deemed too expensive). Enter EnergyHub, a consumer-facing energy management company that thinks it has a solution to the energy monitoring device quandary.
"It was important to do something a little less utilitarian and more distinctive. We had seen people placing the dashboard in the kitchen or by the front door of the house," explains Tucker Fort, Director of Industrial Design at Smart Design. "We wanted to come up with a shape and set of materials and finishes that fit well in those two settings." Smart Design also noticed that people wanted to pick up the dashboard, so the company changed the shape--it's now more bowl-like--to be appropriate for that kind of use.
While the EnergyHub is most attractive to technological early adopters at this stage, that doesn't mean other, less tech-savvy members of the household won't want to use it. That's why Smart Design and EnergyHub opted to add three new buttons: "Home," "Away" and "Goodnight." The buttons are linked to thermostat heating and cooling functions, and can quickly turn individual appliances on and off."
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