Google and Spectrum Bridge Send Your Power Use Data Over TV "White Space"

Google continues on its quest to firmly embed itself in the energy industry, this time by teaming up with service provider Spectrum Bridge to launch the country's first smart grid wireless network trial utilizing TV's white spaces spectrum. In other words, Spectrum Bridge and Google will send data from smart meters to utilities via unused television broadcast channels, or "white spaces".

Don't worry--you won't accidently channel surf over to the smart grid data channel. White spaces exist...