Once the kit is installed to your computer, and the sensors have been put in place, you could start managing your home through the virtual world. You could click your avatar and make it turn on or turn of the power supply. You could command your avatar to check how much your daily water consumption is. You could even go to your other friends’ houses that also use OpenShaspa and help them manage their power consumption. OpenShaspa has so many uses that even users like you can make their own functions since it uses an open-sourced software.

There are other energy management systems which can be controlled through mobile phones and through the internet. But OpenShaspa has an edge over these systems; it can be hooked up to virtual world. This virtual world was created with OpenSimulator, an open-sourced spinoff of Second Life. It creates a simulation of your home which is then connected to the sensors that come with the kit. It’s a really cool widget by itself but Shaspa’s developers say that modeling your home’s energy consumption in 3D could make it easier to manage and make it more comprehensible. Goh also noted that you could ask a friend to look after your home when you’ve gone through the avatar your friend has in this virtual world.

OpenShaspa is a very useful application. This application will make your life a whole lot easier. The kit will include something called a “Social Energy Meter” which makes all the energy consumption data available to the public through the internet. The data could be tracked and evaluated through online websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, to name a few. Power management has never been this fun.

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