SCADA, Telematics & GPS Technologies

GainSpan has a chip that can curb energy consumption in the home, and notify your doctor if you’re about to have a heart attack.

The company has produced an energy efficient WiFi chip that it hopes to install in dryers, electrical meters and other devices in the home. The idea is that utilities and consumers will shut off and/or power down appliances with wireless signals remotely to curb electricity consumption.

GainSpan is currently working with manufacturers to insert its chip into cold storage units, meters and other devices. Hitachi Plant Technologies, the industrial technology arm of the Japanese giant, makes sensors incorporating GainSpan’s chips. The company was spun out of Intel.
Source: GreenTechMedia