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The Digital Family - Saving Electricity

  1. The online meter image of Birmingham's Digital Family

    The Digital Family

    and

    Going Green

    Go to status.dehems.org/login

    Use the username Digital_Family and the password skye15 and interrogate the live readings from the families OWL box

     
  2. Saving electricity. Click here to go to the OWL site.

    Owl

    is a Wireless Electricity Monitor which provides up to the second information on the amount of electricity you are using in terms of both power and cost. So you can start saving immediately.

     
  3. Birmingham has been pioneering 'The Save Your Energy Project' This video takes you through the uses of the Save Your Energy project equipment and the use it will have in Somerfield in Birmingham.

    This is exactly the same equipment that the Digital Family Have had installed and it is linked to their BT phone hub

     
  4. The DEHAMS home page 

    Birmingham and the DEHEMS Project

    The Digital Environment Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS) project aims to improve the current monitoring approach to levels of energy being used by households, with an overall aim of reducing CO2 emissions across Europe.

     

Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 40 public, private and voluntary organisations

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