Smart Grid
Pilots For Homes
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Lucid makes the Smart Grid beautiful.
Lucid Design Group's Home Dashboard® technology will provide homeowners in the U.S. and abroad with real-time feedback on resource use. Currently being exhibited in multiple utility-scale pilots, Home Dashboard is built on Lucid's Building Dashboard® technology to create beautiful, easy-to-use, socially engaging interfaces that are accessible from any personal computer or web-enabled device.
Lucid is recognized for creating the first socially-contextualized energy and water use displays for the web. With the award-winning Building Dashboard, employees, students, building managers and homeowners can create community-wide comparisons across buildings and compete in energy reduction competitions -- all in real time. After six years, Lucid remains the leading provider of real-time resource use displays for commercial and institutional buildings in the U.S.
Demonstrated savings in residential environmentsWith the introduction of Building Dashboard Network and Home Dashboard, Lucid continues to develop new and exciting ways of engaging, educating, motivating and empowering individuals to conserve resources and save money. Groundbreaking technology and novel research have led Lucid's team to exciting conclusions about the effectiveness of different modes of feedback. So far, our team has demonstrated that real-time feedback on resource use can reduce consumption by between 10% and 56% in residential environments.
Electric utility pilots using Lucid's Home Dashboard are already underway in the U.S. and abroad. These pilots are intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of real-time resource use feedback in residences and the scalability of Lucid's technology. Home Dashboard enables electric utilities to:
- Increase customer participation in demand-side management programs
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Overcome customers' "Big Brother" fears of the Smart Grid with a best-in-class, web-based consumer engagement offering
