Illinois’s biggest energy, state regulators, ecological and customer advocates recently rallied together in Chicago to get an inconspicuous but effective device: the smart thermoregulator.

Customers have now been reasonably sluggish to consider the energy-saving technology, which leverages sensors and WiFi to master a customer’s behavior and automatically adjust thermostat amounts in the fly. However a broad number of power stakeholders see great potential in better, smarter temperature settings, and are joining forces to enhance use prices.

All the way from the power plant across to the power outlet it’s one small but not insignificant piece of a broader effort to overhaul the nation’s energy system.