I was originally going to post this in response to another topic but my thoughts went orthogonal so here goes …
Not so easy.
A few thoughts:
- The historical Power meter rendering using the meta-data would be made more difficult and necessarily slower. You need to ponder the lowest-common-denominator.
- There would be (significant?) data storage overhead = cost (with no revenue motivation).
- The tagging may help some humans some of the time but it doesn’t necessarily help the mothership.
- In order to be exploited by the mothership, the Device model or otherwise notable “tag model” would need some data upload to the mother (AWS) at a higher resolution than what we see. This may well be possible, and even happening selectively, but at scale “for all tags” it seems like a taxing process.
Here’s something to ponder in terms of data resolution vs cost:
1s vs 1hr aggregations would translate to pretty much 3,600 times the data. “Sense” (below) has 20 smart plugs, 3 Hues and 38 found devices and is at the sensible limit of its processing capacity due to smart plug load. “Sense2” is not linked to any smart plugs and has not detected any devices because it’s currently dedicated to my hot water tank circuit.
So the question is, doing the math, could Sense deal, technically and financially, with 29MBps … or even 9MBps … if there is no revenue increase?
