TIC´s para el medioambiente: El ranking GIGAOM con lo último de la escena

1). Visible Energy: There are a couple companies called Visible Energy out there, most of them focused on representing energy consumption data. Out selection has a big picture of a UFO-looking gadget on its site, has an iPhone app, and is still in stealth mode. We won’t say much more than that, but their demo at the launchpad will identify the mysterious energy object. We got a sneak peak, and we think you’ll be impressed.

2). Packet Power: The company uses “smart power cables” that monitor power consumption and temperature to help IT organizations see the energy consumption of their hardware on a small scale. PacketPower is producing its cable-based tech now and will be at commercial scale in the summer.

3). FarmsReach: FarmsReach is a web-based tool that helps local food sellers and farmers streamline their logistics and sales. With easier online management, more organizations and institutions can buy locally-grown food and more local farmers can find a marketplace online. That all results in lowered energy consumption for the creation and transportation of food.

4). dot UI: dot UI is a stealthy startup working on open-source middleware called OpenURC that can bring networked HVAC controls, light switches, consumer electronics and web services together in a single user interface. The tool can help utilities deliver demand response tools and enable residents to control their appliances.

5). GreenWizard: The company’s web-based software creates a marketplace for the analysis and purchase of green building materials. Architects, engineers and contractors can use it to source green building products and suppliers.

6). Adaptive Meter: Adaptive Meter is a group of developers that are using gaming and entertainment to take energy data and make it more effective in changing consumption behavior. Their product, Lost Joules, is a competitive stock-market style game that enables users to place bets on energy consumption data using virtual currency. The company hopes to build its game using Google’s PowerMeter API once it becomes available.

7). Wattbot: While we covered Wattbott a few months ago, we thought the young company’s tool, which acts as a sort of middle man for interested consumers and energy providers, was a smart use of Web 2.0 and clean power.

8). OneDidIt.com: This Finnish startup is building social networking tools around green communities. While a lot of social networks have been created to tap eco sensibilities, OneDidIt specializes in taking consumption input data and transforming it into information that can affect energy consumption behavior.

9). The Almanac: The Almanac is working on an online tool called the Consumption Log, which takes information like credit card purchases and uses it to create a visualization of consumption and energy use information. The Consumption Log seeks to automate, as much as possible, the data collection for energy information, and will use its data sets to compare consumption info between users.

10). BLDG 2.0: The folks at the decades old Case Design firm are working on developing open-source-based online tools and protocols to provide meaningful and actionable feedback on building energy performance to designers, owners and occupants. While there are several proprietary tools that can deliver this, the BLDG 2.0 tool will help provide an open standards-based interface and API for consistent, standardized performance data for building energy. The firm’s been around the block, but the concept is bleeding edge.