We propose to demonstrate a smart-home solution coupled with a smart-grid that can eliminate the cost of battery backups used in the developing world. We are developing a smart-home application, SoftUPS, that instruments a home and enforces lower levels of power consumption, providing a way for a grid to reduce demand and prevent whole-scale blackouts. We have built hardware to enable such control and will demonstrate this control using a Lab-of-Things application.
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