Tenrehte’s smart grid wins CES Green Tech award
January 9, 2010
Rochester, NY based Tenrehte Technologies Inc won the CNET Green Technologies award at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Their new PicoWatt smart plug will provide the benefits promised to consumers by a “smart grid” including real time electricity usage information and the ability to control all your appliances from a central plug. You can even control usage to make sure that high-energy using utilities operate at off-peak times - saving money.
CNET cited the PicoWatt for letting the home user set up monitoring themselves, unlike other smart grid technologies that are waiting on long-term deployment of smart home power meters. Each smart plug is a mini linux wifi router, gathering data and controlling devices remotely through a central control program. Users can view their data on a smart phone, or even a facebook application. It can automatically monitor and eliminate standby power on televisions and other appliances when they are not in use.
According to CNET’s reporter Martin LaMonica, the final consumer version has a planned price of $79 and will be sold direct to consumers later this year.
This blog of course has covered success story Tenrehte from their humble beginnings, to their planned TED Talk later this year. I am happy to count Tenrehte as one of Rochester’s entrepreneurial success stories! Great job to Jen Indovina (CEO) and the rest of her awesome team. Check out the CNET Video on Tenrehte here.
