GE Appliances throw their hat into the automation ring

May 19, 2010

While connecting it to Control4 may be a ways off, due to the utilities having to come on board, it’s nice to see a manufacture trying to add another niche to the automation world. In the article there is a link which takes you to Control4′s EC-100. It states that the EC-100 can communicate 2 way with these GE products. However, few utilities today are actually transmitting time-of-use data to their customers and implementing demand side management and that is required for this to work. If any of this actually takes off, is still far from being determined. At least GE is trying.

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/ge_first_with_zigbee_smart_energy_appliances/C157