Press Release

We’re excited to share some new features in the works for MyHub! They’re being developed as part of our ongoing efforts to provide you with the best suite of easy-to-use web tools to help you better understand and manage how you use energy in your home. We plan to implement them over the next few weeks, but wanted to take this opportunity to give you a preview.

Export your data and dig in
We’ve heard from many of you that you’d like to be able to see and play with your raw data. As a first step to make that possible, we’re going to enabling the ability to export information on both individually-monitored appliances and whole-home data. You’ll be able to get it in either 15-minute or hourly intervals. Visualize, compute, compare, and impress us with what you’re saving!

Scroll through graphs to see your historical usage
Being able to compare your usage to previous periods allows you to easily see how your energy usage varies as the seasons change and events happen. With our “easy scroll” capability within the graphs on MyHub, you’ll be able to click through to assess how your energy use plays-out.

Back in April, we launched the latest version of MyHub, making it the industry’s best place to monitor and control energy use in your home from the web or your mobile phone. At that time, we debuted some big improvements.

MyHub now plays nicely with mobile browsers
We’re consuming more and more online content on the go. Whether it’s on a smartphone or tablet, we wanted to make sure that you’re able to have a great experience. You want mode switching that works and the ability to drill-down deeper if needed, so we built the new version of MyHub to work well with the latest mobile browsers. Now, with MyHub (and the accompanying thermostats and controllable Sockets and Strips), you can control the temperature settings in your home, switch occupancy modes, and toggle individual appliances on or off, all from your phone. There’s more there too.

 

Cost projections and comparisons
MyHub uses your price of power information to present information in a currency you’re familiar with: dollars and cents. It shows cost projections for how much electricity you’ll use on a monthly basis along with estimates by appliance for how much you’ve spent to power each one. It’s about time you knew how much it costs to keep things powered-on.

Want to know how you’re fairing relative to others? MyHub also shows you how you’re doing compared to others in your state—both in terms of use and cost.

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You may have heard the news. Today Google announced it will be discontinuing its PowerMeter offering, which was developed as part of its Google.org social betterment projects.

EnergyHub users have had the option of enabling the PowerMeter feature through MyHub to send whole-home and appliance usage information via the API to Google for presentation on Google sites, including iGoogle. On September 16, 2011, your data will be destroyed by Google. As such, we strongly encourage you to either export, or archive, any information that might be lost as a part of Google’s decision. In preparation for this, EnergyHub will be discontinuing data export to Google on July 29, 2011.

Worry not, however! The good news is that most of Google PowerMeter’s capabilities are possible on MyHub. For more information about how this will affect you, please visit our Google PowerMeter page.

What would you like to see in an API?
With the above announcements, we’d like to hear from you what you’d like to see in an API from us if we were to offer one. Send an e-mail to info [at] energyhub [dot] com and let us know what you’d like to see.