Looking for ways to manage your home energy a little more efficiently *and* save money in the process? Well Microsoft Hohm could be right up your street! We just launched Microsoft Hohm, a new online application that helps people understand how they can conserve energy and monitor their spending patterns across appliances and electrical devices in their house.
There’s a few nice technical details which are kind of nice like Hohm makes use of the custom Live ID sign in page (details here) and also runs on the Azure Services Platform – another example of a real live app launched on the platform.
Which online application is without an aspect of social these days? Well Hohm is no different allowing people to share energy saving tips. It’s like if Mint.com allowed me to recommend or provide feedback on a credit card.
Future plans are to provide a software development kit to utility companies so they can feed in customer bills straight into Hohm reducing the amount of information people need to enter when they start off using Hohm.
I know the marketing team for Hohm had fun creating some funny videos that are currently spreading like wildfire across Facebook and Windows Live.
Sign up for Microsoft hohm here.