Indesit Brings Smart Grid Compatible Washing Machine Out

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General Electric may be working on a collection of smart appliances, but the Italian appliance maker Indesit just might end up beating them to market with their ZigBee-compatible washer.

Indesit’s model was just shown off at the Freescale Technology Forum in Florida, and it has the surprisingly money-saving feature of being able to time its washing. See, just in case you don’t know, power costs can vary depending on when you use the juice. Use more power when everyone else is using it and you pay more in those cases, use more when no one is and you pay less. So the Indesit model allows you to take advantage of that by being like the TiVo of washing machines–it fires up its load when the power is cheapest.

Not only does it boast the power (and money) saving tech, it also offers the Aqualtis system, which automatically determines how much detergent you need. And if you’ve done your own laundry recently, you know that that can be a bit of a hassle. Why use more than you need, right?

Since this just hit a trade show, there’s no real concrete word on pricing and availability just yet, but it’s definitely going to be one to watch.