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Building Dashboard® highlighted on CNN.com
August 20, 2007
Los Angeles, CA - Lucid's Building Dashboard® is highlighted in a CNN.com article, titled "Domestic bliss: the future of home technology," describing cutting-edge design and technology in the Wired Magazine Home of the Future From the article:
"Some of the most exciting technologies in the LivingHome are the ones you don't see -- and they are all about sustainability and energy-saving. 'People tend to think of living in a 'Wired' way as having a bunch of gadgets, which is a piece of it for sure, but... technology is also a part of how things are built both sustainably and smartly. We believe technology is driving many of the things that make green living possible,' [Maya] Draisin told CNN.
"... The house also has lofty ambitions to make its human occupants a bit smarter. Loaded onto a home computer, the Lucid home energy dashboard shows real-time energy use so inhabitants can see the results of their activities and modify their behaviour to be more energy efficient."
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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.
