Alarm.com is inching closer to a set-it-and-forget-it energy management system. Its new Smart Schedule Activity Patterns is free to users of its emPower connectivity, automation and energy management systems, showing usage patterns so users can better program their thermostats to save energy and money. The Smart Schedule Activity Patterns appear on an emPower user’s web interface on the thermostat schedule, showing in graded colors the likelihood of someone being home or away at certain times, as well as the programmed set point temperatures. If no one was home, slide the set point over, et voila. Maybe next this will be automated?