People Power’s cloud based Energy Services Platform is an open energy management platform that manages and controls internet-enabled equipment and devices.

The patent covers technology developed by People Power that scans and determines actively connected appliances, registers the list of connected appliances to a remote server, and reports power usage on the appliances.

People Power CEO Gene Wang said that the broad-based patent grants the company ownership of technology that is key to ease-of-use in an end-to-end energy monitoring solution.

People Power is a green technology startup focusing on energy efficiency solutions.