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AMEE - The world's energy meter
The Climate Change agenda has created an imperative to measure the energy profile of everything. As trillions of dollars flow into re-inventing how we consume, we have a unique opportunity to start with open data and open systems.
AMEE is an open aggregation platform for energy and CO2 data, algorithms, and transactions. We aim to dramatically accelerate change, because we need to. Active users include the UK Government, Google, Morgan Stanley, and The Royal Society for the Arts.
AMEE has also demonstrated a need for a neutral, anonymous host for “personal data”. There are substantial opportunities to explore in bridging brand-equity and privacy issues using the platform.
We might have created a model for “Energy Identity Management” – which impacts every component of our lives.
AMEE is operated as a managed service – developer API keys are available.
Gavin Starks
d::gen network
Gavin has been combining Business, Technology, Science and Media for more than a decade.
As the 5th employee at Richard Branson’s “Virgin Net” he helped shape parts of the UK internet and the streaming media industry – co-founding the International Webcasting Association in Europe. In 1999 he created the award-winning cross-media company, Tornado Productions, and sold it to a larger media group in 2003.
Having led projects with clients as diverse as; UK Government, Google, BBC, Rolls Royce, Tate Modern, EMI, Shell and Christian Aid, he has broad and deep knowledge of how worlds collide.
Gavin is Founding Director of d::gen and AMEE, Managing Director of CI and non-exec Director of DRDC. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, contributes to Nesta/PAL workshops, the AmbientTV collective and Acoustic Space Lab in Latvia – exploring links between technology, science and the arts.
He holds a BSc in Astronomy – working in Radio Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory; and a Master’s in Computer-Music – he created and lectured new IEEE courses in Electronics and Music at Glasgow University.