Smart sockets

Here's an idea: The reason why homes aren't as efficient as they are is not because everyone hasn't decked out their place of residence with the most expensive energy savings items, its because some people simply don't basic eneryg conservation. We all know the person that everytime you come over they have their TV on and they're not even watching it. It just never occurs to them that leaving that on is contributing to their higher electrical bill. That being said, the best way to achieve greater energy efficiency is for homes to modify our behavior by monitoring our behavior. Essentially anything that consumes power which is plugged into a socket should be able to send appliance information and patterns of consumption to your homes central monitoring software which can monitor behavior and learn from it. Say you leave at 8 and get home 6:30, it can turn off essentially EVERYTHING in the home asides from things like the refrigirator, and then turn on before you get home so the house will be nice and cool. The second we're not using anything, it should be off, and home monitoring and behavior analysis software will help us achieve this.