Attended a webcast about the GridRouter as I've been interested in what they are doing. Pretty unique piece of hardware that has the attention of the utility companies. It's really about installing their device and allowing the utilities to remotely monitor or mange their smart meters (a communications hub as they put it). The nice thing that it's built on open standards which makes it very flexible.
The initial idea is to collect data about usage (from a smart meter) so they can bill the customer. But this really opens to the door to many possibilities beyond the consumer endpoint. The vision is that is this can be the conduit to do a lot more from managing transformers, to customer's smart appliances (say in the event of a brown out). It uses Linux as the OS so you could take this much farther that the utility industry. Maybe things like remote pipeline monitoring or controlling machinery, stop lights, you name it.
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