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Researchers Ready Personal Energy Monitoring Devices

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Simon Hay of Cambridge's Computer Lab Credit: University of Cambridge

EE Times

June 22, 2009

Embedded data mining, inertial sensors, and global positioning systems are used in a wireless device being developed to monitor the amount of energy a person consumes on a daily basis. Developed by researchers at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, the Personal Energy Meter (PEM) would record everything from the energy consumed while traveling, the heating and appliances people use, to the indirect energy used as a result of consuming manufactured food and goods. 

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