According to estimations by the McKinsey Global Institute, the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a total economic impact of up to $11 trillion by 2025. Some of this will come from the huge energy savings from increasing visibility of the grid’s performance, identifying where we lose energy, and therefore discovering where the savings potential really lie – “efficiency”. The key to the efficiency-enhancing power of Internet of Things lies in peak usage periods. Electricity is of course much more expensive in the hours when it is in most demand. However, the majority of consumers around the world are still billed purely on how much power they use. This baked-in inefficiency increases overall costs for both the utilities and the average consumer. The consumer is guarded from the spikes of peak usage periods, and the utility companies are either willing to absorb some of the extra cost or pass this on to the bill payer […]