4Home and Marvell have partnered to introduce a new energy management system based on the SheevaPlug that is a Linux plug computer Marvell introduced last year. The SheevaPlug computer included is equipped with a 2GHz Sheeva processor and supports Bluetooth, WiFi and USB 2.0.
4Home’s energy management solution feature the company’s ControlPoint software optimized for energy management, which tracks real-time and historical energy usage for the entire home as well as individual appliances, projects future energy usage and costs for daily, monthly and yearly cycles based on current energy usage and notifies users if they are trending towards an overage in energy usage based on the amount of energy use that they allocate for the given time period.
