Cut energy consumption from your computer & phone!

Just imagine – you’re two minutes away from pulling into your driveway after a long day at work. You reach into your pocket and pull out a smartphone. Click. Click. By the time you’re standing at your front door, the porch lights are on. Inside, the air conditioning is at just the right temperature. Even the TV is set to your favorite channel.

No, this isn’t science fiction. It’s Canadian!

Valta, a Toronto-based startup company, is looking towards the Internet to help fund their new energy-management technology. Combining an innovative outlet attachment with a central hub, an iPhone app, and a monitoring website, Valta’s technology promises to help homeowners tame energy wasting appliances with just a few clicks.

The outlet attachments feature built-in microchips that detect inactive energy guzzlers. Those chips can then send a text message alert to your phone, allowing you to turn the socket off completely!

You can also view which of your home’s appliances are in “standby” mode, which means they continue to sap electricity without actively being in use.

The technology utilizes a geofence to shut appliances off as soon as you leave the house, and then turn them back on as soon as you return. So even if you forgot to reach for your phone on the car ride home, don’t worry!

If you’re one of those people who likes to plan everything down to the smallest detail, you can schedule power on and offs, like turning on your entertainment system, fan, computer, or home office.

Valta’s technology can even track your energy consumption so you can see how your habits have evolved over time. Because energy consciousness has never been more important! Sure, it’s easy to forget about that lamp on in the other room. It’s easy to let the water run a little longer than need be. What’s difficult is changing our habits. Learning. Improving.

If we don’t improve as a society, and quickly, we’ll be left with one mess of a planet. Thankfully, companies like NRGLab and Valta are taking a stance and doing something about it.

 
Valta has the experience in cloud-network computer programming, iOS, hardware and electrical engineering.  All they need now is money. The company has turned to Kickstarter, the highly-successful crowd-based funding site, for $100,000 to get the gears turning.

Interested in pre-ordering Valta’s technology? The v-Hub and three sockets will run you $139 (about 55$ less than projected retail this Fall). Check out their Kickstarter campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/671204280/valta-energy-usage-simplified