During the start of the course we started to look at Pachube where anyone can use as a hub to share and use uploaded data to the rest of the world, we also had a talk from a representative of the organisation called Paul. and he explained why the company was made, how it works and the benefits of the project.
For example as it is open source anyone can use it, and use it for free the site can be used for personal reasons like checks one energy consummation for the washing machine or just the televisions in the house or Pachube can even be used as a giga counter or for radiation measuring, shared with people around the world then someone can be use the basic data to create another outcome

For future information please click the link :

To the left is someone who has used pachube to visually represent his indoor household energy usage over a long period of time, and is displayed in real time on the website, by doing this he can see when his house is most active, so in the below image you can see that the energy spike is at about 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning this is most likely because when people wake to go to work.