hey there,

because we moved to a new house in May we could somehow manage to get into the test phase of so called “digitalSTROM”.

Therefore I like to write about this feature and what possible things you can do with it because I really think this is going to be something very nice in the future.

“digitalSTROM” is a very new technology to program every single electric device in a house with the help of screw terminals and one little server, but before I go into any detail just watch the video below.  (Could take sometime to download)

For more informations about “digitalSTROM” please visit the their page http://www.digitalstrom.org

See the following summary about the most important features:

• dim light without special lamps
• turn off the power in the whole house/building
• control any electrical device via IP
• program different scenarios for different situations

I hade a few thoughts about the use of this feature:

First of all, I really like the idea of having one button near your door turn off all electricity and all devices in your house with one click or on the other side turn on all the things you turned off when you left.

Secondly, it will be possible to start almost any electrical device while you are away from home. Imagine the last days of your holidays and you could simply use a mobile application to start the heater and when you arrive home your house is warm and you feel pleasant. Another thing you could do is to put something (like pizza) in the oven before you leave for work and when you’re on the way home you can start the oven and eat right after.

To go on with I like to mention that with the help of “digitalSTROM” enterprises could save a lot of money due to electrical savings. They could control the heater, light, air conditioner and many more only with the help of a tool – for example they could program it such that all the light turns off at 2′o clock PM.

Finally, the way I would definitely use “digitalSTROM” is to turn on my computer of my server while I’m in the University or away to send/get data or to remote control my devices. I also in favour with the dim feature because a good light ambiance is really helpful for work and for non-work stuff.

That’s it for today, I hope I did have some good ideas and I could tell you what “digitalSTROM” is (mostly with the help of the video). If you have another good way to use it or any other things you like to tell please leave comments below.

cheers d3orn