One of the cool new gadgets to hit the market is a touchscreen device that allows you to communicate with anything consuming energy in your home.Inventor Seth Frader-Thompson's new invention has been named one of the "best new gadgets" and "breakthrough ideas of the year" by Time Magazine.
The EnergyHub Dashboard is a device that allows you to wirelessly communicate with all your appliances.
The touch screen device receives wireless information from "plug-ins" in your electrical sockets and provides details of usage for every energy consuming product in the home - everything from your furnace and air conditioner to a specific light bulb, cell phone or alarm clock.
It even tracks leak current (the power used by devices that are plugged-in but not being used).
Although many of us are motivated to reduce our carbon footprint and power consumption by changing our lights or upgrading to Energy Star appliances, this doesn't tell us exactly what's happening with consumption.
Our utility bills give us total power usage but nothing about what would happen if our thermostat was reduced by a few degrees or if a specific appliance was replaced, shut-off or used on a certain schedule.
The EnergHub provides this type of information and allows you to control and schedule the energy usage of anything in the home.
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