FYP: A system that monitors electricity usage of individual appliances around the home

Okay, so this popped up on kickstarter recently:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/energyaware/neurio-home-intelligence

This seems like a pretty useful tool to monitor everything going on around the house. Using it's API, it could in theory be integrated into my system to further the automation & self-learning aspect of the system. 

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