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When Your Meter Starts 'Speculating': How Kite Turns Smart Homes into Mini Power Plants
Last night, I was staring at the newly installed smart meter at home when a thought suddenly popped into my mind: what if it was no longer just passively billing, but could actively trade—automatically charging the energy storage battery during low electricity prices and selling electricity to the community grid during peak times to earn the price difference—what would that look like?
This sounds like a daydream of the energy market, but after talking with an engineer from the Kite team, I discovered that this is exactly the future they are quietly paving the way for. He told me that what they are most excited about is not making devices 'payable', but building an underlying economic network that allows machines to continuously negotiate and collaborate dynamically. This is not simple automatic billing, but a complete machine market economic system.
This sounds like a daydream of the energy market, but after talking with an engineer from the Kite team, I discovered that this is exactly the future they are quietly paving the way for. He told me that what they are most excited about is not making devices 'payable', but building an underlying economic network that allows machines to continuously negotiate and collaborate dynamically. This is not simple automatic billing, but a complete machine market economic system.
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