NVIDIA's Senior Management, Tom Riley, to Join Powder Watts

PARK CITY, Utah - July 19, 2024 - PRLog -- Tom Riley, responsible for scaling's NVIDIA's presence in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) industry is now bringing his 7 years of spectacular growth experience in the world's leading artificial intelligence computing company to bear at Powder Watts.

Powder Watts is revolutionizing the IoT VPP industry by applying its advanced ecosystem to bear on the nation's largest remaining unmanaged electric load.

Rooftop snowmelt protection systems have been silently consuming terawatt-hours of energy and are in dire need of innovative smart switching.  By retrofitting just 5% of the Nation's total installed heat cable circuits with their advanced controls, the patented technology developed by Powder Watts is projected to save more than 6.5 Terawatt-Hours of energy and 2.5 million Metric Tons of carbon emissions annually.

These rooftop snowmelt systems have been added to approximately 20M buildings in North America over the last few decades.  These systems are needed to prevent water intrusion into and the resulting mold and structural damage to the homes and businesses they protect – but consume thousands of watts per hour.  Powder Watts system uses a groundbreaking, approach and IoT system to visualize these snowmelt systems in real time and make intelligent switching decisions.

This National Science Foundation awarded and funded technology saves so much energy for customers and grid operators that, when its AI Computer Vision is applied, it may represent the largest single energy savings achieved per computer vision cycle.

Switching these snowmelt systems into standby mode saves thousands of watts per hour – a level that commonly eclipses the building's LED lightbulb savings.

Riley's vast experience in the AI Computer Vision industry will help propel Powder Watts into its next stage of growth – nationwide rollout and Virtual Power Plant implementations.

For more information about Powder Watts and its innovative solutions, visit www.powderwatts.com.
For information about National Science Foundation:  https://new.nsf.gov/focus-areas/engineering
For information on NVIDIA: https://www.nvidia.com/

About Powder Watts: Powder Watts offers advanced AI and IoT solutions to the massive energy bills caused by rooftop snow and ice melt systems.  Commonly called "heat cables, heat tape, heat trace and hot edge" rooftop snowmelt systems consume huge amounts of power to protect the buildings on which they are installed.  Powder Watts' patented technology applies smarts to these existing systems, saving customers hundreds or thousands of dollars, with ROI as quick as 1 year – all while providing monitoring of these systems, helping customers rest easy while they save.

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