Snapshots
My company, GroundedPower announced the release of snapshots yesterday. Our customers are using snapshots to take notes on their energy consumption, compare their usage with others and submit interesting data sets to experts for review. It’s a really neat way to keep track of how far you’ve come in energy savings and see how your appliance usage changes through the seasons. Does the fridge cycle less when there’s more food in it? Does your water heater cycle less in the summer? Does your water heater use more or less energy than other people’s? What’s that weird spike at 4 in the morning? All of these questions and more are being answered using the snapshot tool. Here’s one of mine:
These are the kinds of interactions that are possible when real time consumption data is available. For example, uou can turn on all of your lights in the house, take a quick snapshot and then send your family members a bill for how much they are costing you when they don’t turn off the lights 
A level of timely interaction is lost with day behind or even 15 minute interval data.
