Home thermostats: Big Brother’s next target?
Written by admin on January 13th, 2008 in Gadgets.
Posted Jan 13th 2008 11:53AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Household
It’s not like we haven’t heard of a higher power invading one’s home before, but apparently, a proposal set to be considered at month’s end could allow the state of California to “require that residents install remotely monitored temperature controls in their homes next year.” The Programmable Communication Thermostat (PCT) would feature a “non-removable” FM receiver which could be controlled by Big Brother in “times of emergency” to drop load in order for “utilities to meet their supplies [when] the integrity of the grid is being jeopardized.” Of course, we are hearing that adjustments would only be made ±4 degrees, but we aren’t so keen on one thing leading to another, if you catch our drift.
[Via Digg, image courtesy of Drexel, thanks yoshi]
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