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Global Green USA and Lucid's Building Dashboard® featured in The Atlantic
November 1, 2009
New Orleans, LA - The Atlantic discusses the experimental "project house" of Global Green USA, a non-profit that has endeavored to replace homes lost in the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina with energy-efficient ones and create a model for sustainable community development. Building Dashboard® is used to monitor and display electricity, water and natural gas consumption and solar electricity production inside the home.
From the article, "Houses of the Future":
The house is designed to be “net zero” energy-wise—that is, it produces as much electricity as it consumes each year. The utility closets are filled with the synapses that control the house’s hi-tech appendages, and downstairs near the door is a touch-screen panel—the “Lucid Building Dashboard”—that monitors its brain waves like an EKG. It seemed to me every bit as marvelous as Disney’s old House of the Future, but with reclaimed wood rather than white plastic.
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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.
