Two years ago CEIVA Logic, creator of the connected picture frame, founded a home energy management system called CEIVA Energy. The HEM provider is currently working with different utilities in order to teach their customers how to reduce energy consumption.
All digital picture frames provide a rotating selection of photos. What sets CEIVA Energy’s frames apart from others is that their frames can also connect to the Internet, a home’s smart meter, thermostat, and load control switches. With the energy efficiency program, the frame will provide pop ups every 90 seconds with easy-to-understand information about the home’s energy usage. This will allow consumers to see what happens when they turn an appliance on or off.
By reading a smart meter every eight seconds, CEIVA provides utilities with data and analysis that can be used to trigger demand response events. If a utility triggers a demand response event, information about the event will appear in the homeowner's CEIVA frame.
CEIVA’s has already had successful partnerships with utilities. For example, 83% of Glendale Water & Power’s customers, with CEIVA frames, changed their electricity use.
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