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Building Dashboard® featured on CNET News.com
June 5, 2007
San Francisco, CA - Building Dashboard® and Lucid Design Group are featured in a CNET News.com article titled "Smart dashboard displays the hidden price of power," discussing how web-based power widgets allow homeowners to tally energy and other resource use expenses. From the article:
"Showing how many resources are being spent and where in a building, [Building Dashboard®] hooks up to energy meters as well as automation systems from Siemens, Honeywell, and other brands. Alarm bells ring if consumption spikes past preset levels. The real-time display also adds up the dollar savings of solar panels . . . Displays can be set up online or in lobby touch-screen kiosks, with data accessible on a server and available for download into Microsoft Excel. Webcam integration can provide time-lapse views of energy consumption patterns."
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About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
