What To Do So Your Home Appliances Won’t Waste Energy

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You would be amazed if you knew the amount of electrical power your home appliances like laptops, desktop computers, television, home theatre, and many others used when they are turned on. It might seem small but when it is added up it becomes very large.

The least demanding thing people do is to discuss with their family members, flatmates, or who is they are leaving in the house with about the significance of saving electricity. They teach that basic things like turning off the room lights when not being used, hibernating your when you're not utilizing it can go far in reducing your energy bills. Yes this is true, but the fact remains that we are humans and we are bound to ease up on it at one point in time.

Thanks to technology we can use an energy usage monitor or home energy monitor that can do this for us, making life very easy. A home energy monitor measures the amount of electricity you use in your house. It is said that you can save as much as 25% in the first month if you have a home energy monitoring system installed in your home. Now, this is very huge, lets us assume you spend say $1000 on electricity in a month, saving 25% of that means you would save $250 and you can use it to do other things. Imagine then when you make this kind savings for a year how much you would stand to gain.

Ecoisme is a home energy monitoring system that help it users in managing their electricity bills. It helps you save money and energy by telling you how much energy your home appliances use, it also tells you which appliances you left on so you can switch them off and thereby save more energy. Ecoisme could also be used with your solar panel to monitor the level of solar energy charge you have left and also when it has finished.

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Ecoisme consists of a sensor which is connected by a non-wired to your home electrical panel and an app that visually shows you information about your home appliances. The sensor measures the current passing through it and then analyses your electric consumption and sends it to app which shows you a visual illustration of your electricity consumption and its estimated cost. It can detect using an algorithm, different appliances in your home, which would enable know exactly what appliance is not turned off, or which one you are using.

It was voted the "the best smart living innovative product" by EDF and the company says, it has "signed a partnership with Dubai Water and Electricity Authority" to monitor electricity consumption and solar energy production in the city. It sure seems like a good and exciting technology that would help us save a lot of money and energy, you would, therefore, do well to own one.