Energy Efficiency Is Just One Aspect of a Smart Home

I had a magnificent lunch today at a French Cajun place in Santa Barbara with a new business contact.  This gentleman runs one of the units of the Nikola Tesla Foundation in Los Angeles, focusing on connected homes.

His main area of interest is not energy efficiency per se, but the medical aspects of “smartness,” e.g., monitors that detect strokes and heart attacks, facilitating telemedicine, and so forth.   I believe that some of the people I’ve connected with over the years may be beneficial to his projects, so I plan to make a few introductions.

The first contact who pops into my mind is Jesse Berst, the editor of the Smart Grid News.  I interviewed Jesse for our webinar on Smart Cities a while back; he did a great job, and he’s fabulously knowledgeable — as well as very connected — in the industry.