Would you pre-order GridSpy power monitoring?
jacquesm: relatively high ? $950 ?? That's not relatively high, that's simply overpriced.and a recurring ???I would not pre-order that until the price came down to what consumer electronics with this much functionality should cost, probably around the $40 mark or so. And that recurring billing bit for a feature that you could easily throw in for free is simply grafted on to make a spreadsheet look good somewhere.Why on earth did you decide to complicate matters so much ? Your average consumer is not going to order these in quantities large enough to make it happen. A scaled down version that would cost $40 to $50 and that would simply monitor your electricity usage and report to a website (for free) so you can do your sampling using the simplest of pic chips would do wonders for energy savings and would be earned back in a foreseeable time.Rule 1: keep it simple.Don't break rule one.Multiple hundreds of dollars are a completely different decision point than < 50, and as your volume goes up your costs go down further so your profits will rise. People visiting the site to see their stats and to compare their stats with other people in their neighbourhood (who gets to have the lowest electricity bill) would be a great way to create a community of energy conscious people.There must be a better way to monetize that than to charge them for the privilege of supplying you with valuable data...So, not 'more features' to sway people, less features at a much better price and a smarter plan to monetize your users in the longer term.