{"id":1572,"date":"2013-11-11T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2013-11-11T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:21:03","slug":"growing-the-energy-side-of-the-internet-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/growing-the-energy-side-of-the-internet-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing the energy side of the internet of things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last July, I met Sam Lowe<\/a>\u00a0at the Internet of Things meetup I organise for Xively<\/a>. He was working at British Gas at the time and we got talking. British Gas has a product development group called Connected Homes (they just launched their own #iot product called Hive<\/a>) who were interested in organising a hackday but I really wanted them to do something else entirely: give money away to startups in the home energy sector. I figured if I was having trouble finding funding for Good Night Lamp, I was probably not the only one. But unlike a consumer product that’s a little blurry in its market space (part tele health, part social) an energy startup is a pretty clear offering.<\/p>\n

I didn’t exactly know how many people had startups in that space, so I started working with\u00a0Mark Lowther<\/a>\u00a0 and we started planning a series of events called Connecting Homes<\/a>\u00a0which started with a startup competition for home energy startups where a cash prize was given out to the 3 most innovative startups. We were also fortunate enough to have Martha Lane Fox deliver an amazing keynote <\/a> and stay for the day to join the panel of judges<\/a> who went around the room. I roped the wonderful Ana Bradley<\/a> into helping organise the day as well as SuperNova studio<\/a> who share my office with me.<\/p>\n

We had over 50 startups apply from around the world who were all squarely in #iot territory but for home energy which was great. 25 of them showcased on September 28th and 3 of them ended up with a cash prize. We’re not stopping there though as we move towards an online community for the startups where they can share knowledge and opportunities as well as Office Hours<\/a> where startups in the home energy space who want to talk to British Gas about a technical problem, testing opportunities or funding can sign up.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working with energy companies since the Tinker days<\/a>, and it’s a real pleasure to help startups get the best of large corporates in this space. The glue between the 2 is really essential and that’s how greener homes will happen.<\/p>\n

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