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To: GOPbabe who wrote (1249)	3/2/2000 8:57:00 AM
From: Lundens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3076

Appliances communicate to hold total home power usage down. I am not sure who to give credit too on this but someone posted in the past: it is necessary in European countries to keep electrical consumption within a household to below a certain level. The result of exceeding this level is power shutoff to the entire house. Currently, if you want to run the washer, you probably don't want to have all the t.v.s or dishwasher running so as not to exceed this limit. If the appliance could communicate current and requested electical usage to a server, the server could dictate what could all be running at once. I like the idea of echelon driving consumable replenishment, but I think it is less interesting in the home then an office building or business. If I built hand soap or paper dispensors, I would sure like to network these to a system such that my consumables are replenished as quickly as possible.