Imagine sending in a payment to your bank for your mortgage, car loan, or credit card bill. A few months later, you get a letter from the bank asking you when you will be paying. Huh? You tell them you already sent in a payment and enclose a copy of the paid check. Weeks later, […]

Here’s a subtle dealbreaker for CleanTech: Energy is Easy. In fact, too easy. Our utilities and regulators have worked hard for over 100 years to provide us with virtually unlimited energy at low prices, and they’ve been very successful at it. As a result, the average American spends all of eight minutes per year thinking […]

If you’ve worked with building energy or any other IOT, then you’ve probably seen how important yet difficult tagging all the data is. A commercial office building could be streaming over 10,000 data points at 15 minute or shorter intervals. Which one is a temperature? Which one is a set point? Which one corresponds to […]

This is a video of a presentation for the VOLTTRON Users’ Conference last week, covering both where we are now with opentaps SEAS development and what our business model is for open source energy:

Why are we developing a smart energy software after creating open source ERP? First, the Internet Of Things means that the future of software, especially business applications, is connected devices: Second, falling cost of renewable energy means that this huge industry is ready for major transformation: Finally, we need to do something about climate change–and […]

Today, a new opentaps is publicly available on github at https://github.com/opentaps/opentaps_seas Here’s what it looks like: This new opentaps helps you to manage energy more intelligently by collecting and analyzing energy data. It lets you create and track a portfolio of your buildings and equipment, gather data from your devices through standard protocols such as […]

What would you do if you could go back in time?  Way, way, way back to the days when Nokia and Symbian ruled the mobile phone world?  Would you have known that one day, you could develop Instagram? Amazingly, we have a chance to do it over again.  The energy industry is digitizing, and it’ll go […]

Energy might be the biggest and most important industry in the world.  Everyone you know, everything you use, everything you do — They all depend on energy.  Our decisions about energy also change the world in big ways: From the Industrial Revolution to Climate Change, they all happened because of decisions we’ve made about energy. Amazingly, open source can […]

Is blockchain an even more disruptive technology than the web?  Could IOT be the best place for blockchain to take off? Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it.  I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of […]