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Discontinued Operations - Schedule of Financial Information (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Revenues	$ 4,618us-gaap_Revenues	$ 4,454us-gaap_Revenues
Gross profit	1,519us-gaap_GrossProfit	1,430us-gaap_GrossProfit
Net loss	(2,934)us-gaap_ProfitLoss	(4,575)us-gaap_ProfitLoss
Net loss attributable to Acorn Energy Inc.	(2,769)us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	(4,304)us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
U.S. Seismic Systems, Inc [Member] | Discontinued Operations [Member]
Revenues
Gross profit	(90)us-gaap_GrossProfit / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember	(188)us-gaap_GrossProfit / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember
Net loss	(1,152)us-gaap_ProfitLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember	(1,956)us-gaap_ProfitLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests	145us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember	246us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember
Net loss attributable to Acorn Energy Inc.	$ (1,007)us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember	$ (1,710)us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = ACFN_USSeismicSystemsIncMember / us-gaap_StatementOperatingActivitiesSegmentAxis = us-gaap_SegmentDiscontinuedOperationsMember

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