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The new ZigBee Plugwise Smart Sockets go between your appliance and the wall, measuring energy consumption and transmitting the data to your PC wirelessly for analysis.  The PlugWise Circle G sockets are available now for around £35 with the PlugWise Stick USB mesh network transmitter / receiver for around £40... 

The new ProGuard800 system from Marmitek combines X10 Home Automation and Security features in a single Panel.  PSTN, GSM modules are also available along with the usual assortment of door/window sensors, motion sensors, water leak detectors, temperature sensors, smoke detectors etc.  The ProGuard800 is available now for under £400...

In an age where more and more new devices want access to the Interweb, even on the move, it's crazy to have a separate connection for each.  In an ideal world we'd all be using our mobiles phones as a Wi-Fi hotspots, but generally these data plans are crazy expensive for what you get (often even without any extra data allowance).  Often its the poor battery performance of the mobile phone in this scenario that renders it impractical.  So what's the answer? a MiFi...

Another raft of updates this week from one of our favourite UK innovators - AlertMe. Firstly the new "AlertMe Smart Energy" package with a full-colour display (and six months free online and mobile service included) is now available to pre-order at £49.99.  Also the new free iPhone App for the Energy system is now on the iTunes store and joy of joys a sweet new UI is here at last for the Web Interface...

In the latest of our 'My Automated Home' series, Martyn Wendon shows us round the four Nodes of his smart home set-up.  Covering a decade of his retro-fitted tech, the sub systems are plentiful and include lighting, heating, AV, CCTV, utility monitoring, xAP, xPL, 1Wire, HomeEasy, RFXCom, X10, Z-Wave and more!.  So grab a coffee, sit back and geek out..