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Lucid's Building Dashboard® noted in Dwell Magazine's daily blog
September 25, 2007
San Francisco, CA - Lucid's Building Dashboard® is noted in Dwell Magazine's daily blog feature, "First Look: The Wired Home," discussing the futuristic yet currently available gadgetry found in Wired Magazine's Home of the Future. From the article:
"Wired is billing the house, designed by Ray Kappe and constructed by LivingHomes, as a place where green meets geek. (Their pitch: high design, low impact.) If Bill Gates married Laurie David, this would be their dream home. Thermal blinds, motorized windows, and vents adjust themselves during the course of a day to conserve energy. Sensors in the washing machine and dishwasher gauge the filth of the water, so washing can halt as soon as the contents are clean. A dashboard loaded onto a home computer allows residents to track real-time energy use.
"In the past, these kinds of homes have tended to be flamboyantly futuristic, with robotics and all sorts of sci-fi features that never trickle down to real life. That’s not the case this time. On the contrary, the gadgetry is discrete, and everything in the house is available. The energy-use dashboard mentioned above already comes with many of the homes sold by LivingHomes ..."
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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.
