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Editorial Foster & Linehan of open online energy data means monitoring usage in the home is not reliant upon physical table-top monitors to capture the attention of the end-user, paving the way for remote ‘anywhere anytime’access. Indeed, some companies in the UK and the USA are already producing monitoring kits that are internet enabled, providing access to proprietary online services such as live and historical energy dashboards. However, for the most part these consumer off-the-shelf systems do not provide the wider developer community with access to fully open energy data and services; they are also often an additional cost to end-users through yearly subscriptions. In many cases the online energy services are just slightly more interactive versions of the tabletop display. Some inroads have been made by the UK-based company Current Cost (Hampshire, UK) with its NetSmart device [102] and the …