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Sustainable & Smart Hardware Startup TripSwitch
TripSwitch, an Atlanta-based hardware startup founded by Georgia professor Jackson Montgomery, has developed an easy-to-install smart circuit breaker device that lets homeowners and renters monitor and control their electricity usage remotely via a phone app. Priced at $400 and designed to attach magnetically to existing breaker boxes, the device aims to reduce energy waste and is launching on Kickstarter to scale manufacturing.
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Summary
TripSwitch, an Atlanta-based hardware startup founded by Georgia professor Jackson Montgomery, has developed an easy-to-install smart circuit breaker device that lets homeowners and renters monitor and control their electricity usage remotely via a phone app. Priced at $400 and designed to attach magnetically to existing breaker boxes, the device aims to reduce energy waste and is launching on Kickstarter to scale manufacturing.
Tags
smart-home · iot · cleantech · energy-efficiency · hardware-startup · circuit-breaker · kickstarter
Key entities
TripSwitch (organization, 0.99) · Jackson Montgomery (person, 0.98) · ATDC (Advanced Technology Development Center) (organization, 0.92) · Georgia Tech (organization, 0.9) · Siemens Energy (organization, 0.9) · University of Georgia (organization, 0.88) · IoT (technology, 0.9) · Kickstarter (organization, 0.88) · Atlanta (location, 0.92) · Maija Ehlinger (person, 0.85) · smart-home (concept, 0.9) · cleantech (concept, 0.85)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026