Startup's Kits Help You Hack Your Home Wired News
PALO ALTO, California — Gene Wang’s career really took off when he walked on the ceiling.
It all started in a classroom at Harvard’s business school, where Wang was a student. The professor asked how hard they would try to do the impossible. To prove a point, Wang rolled up his sleeves, grabbed his desk, did a head stand and took a few steps on the ceiling.
The cute anecdote notwithstanding, he soon dropped out and got into business, started a few companies and worked, briefly, as a vice president at Hewlett Packard.
Wang is currently the CEO of People Power, a green-tech company based here in the heart of Silicon Valley. A few weeks ago, People Power introduced a kit it calls SuRF, for Sensor Ultra-Radio Frequency, that helps connect household appliances and gadgets to a wireless network in your house.
What that means is that you could monitor your microwave, Playstation and coffee machine in real time, check their levels of energy consumption, and make apps to control how they behave. Ultimately, that could lead to substantial savings of energy and money.
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