Today, most buildings use an electrical infrastructure based on technology from the 1950s. Outlets, switches, and circuit breakers have served their purpose well enough but have hardly changed in over half a century. Like the shift from conventional light bulbs to LED, the buildings’ conventional electrical infrastructure has been waiting for a disruptive technology that improves safety and performance, while reducing cost and energy waste. Such compelling and far-reaching disruptions on established systems are rare but one new technological development promises to make every electrical endpoint in every building… Smart. Solid-state silicon chips have become well-known in the development of computing, electric vehicles, mobile devices, and modern appliances; now one California-based company is applying the technology to the electrical infrastructure of buildings. Amber Solutions is promising a new standard in power control that enables electricity to be digitally controlled by software in silicon chip architecture. By replacing antiquated electro-mechanical infrastructures with a smaller and more reliable silicon chip […]