This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
The Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem (TREE) is designed to make life easier for consumers and utilities alike and to do so without raising the appliance makers from their slumbers.
Before allowing that tendril of delicately battered calamari to hit the tongue, a diner should first admire the artistic manner in which the tempura was arranged upon the gold-flecked Japanese paper lining its woven bamboo dish.