Android™ application allows consumers to monitor energy costs

January 23, 2011

Product Development Technologies Inc. has worked with Smart Power Devices Ltd. to develop a new Android app designed to help consumers save money on their electric bills while reducing their carbon footprint.

Across North America, power companies have created residential dynamic pricing programs for their environmental and monetary benefits. The Power Stoplight app, also available for iPhone and BlackBerry, formats and displays this energy data to show users the best and worst times to run electrical devices or generate electricity. The app helps track time of usage programs as well.

For selected regions, the app also provides the newest available spot price data; day-ahead figures; or a smart price figure, a prediction for that region’s electricity services’ final applicable prices, which is computed by Smart Power Devices’ servers.

“The information about how we can be more green is readily available, reliable, and plentiful,” said Brian Einloth, director of software engineering at PDT. “People just need to see this information in a way that’s easy to understand to truly demonstrate the savings and benefits of an ecofriendly lifestyle.”

Product Development Technologies Inc.,
One Corporate Drive, Suite 110,
Lake Zurich, IL 60047,
847-821-3000,
info@pdt.com, www.pdt.com