http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/ Engadget Comments for EnergyHub minds your electricity, saves you cash http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 16th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/
Cool looking device though]]>Aug 15th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/
PS- I have a battery operated weather station in my house that runs on 2 AA batteries for the station and 1 for the sensor. That lasts months. So I HIGHLY doubt this thing is going to hit the meter hard.]]>Aug 16th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 16th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/
This is an interesting system that I'd look into so long as it didn't cost me $1000-$2000 to equip my house (and it's many receptacles, etc) with the necessary monitoring hardware. Using this sort of technology to save money is great so long as I'm not spending so much on the initial upfront expenses that even 10 years worth of savings would never pay it back.

Then again, sometimes geekyness wins out, savings or not - I've always loved X10 hardware and have always been interested in "realtime" electricity systems like this. If my local utility would just provide me with an interface to my wonderful new electronic interval power meter on the side of my house that would be great as well, but no game apparently.]]>Aug 15th 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 15th 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/
B) Devices that monitor electricity already exist. They're called electricity meters. They're those things on the side of your house. Duh. What is the point of this thing?]]>Aug 15th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/
B) The meter on the side of the house is only for the entire household -- it does not monitor on a plug-by-plug basis.

I mean, c'mon now. You can read! I'm pretty sure you can comprehend what you read too. What part of, "The device uses a touchscreen control panel . . . to help gauge and adjust energy levels for satellite outlets that it communicates with." do you NOT understand? Jeez!!
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reminds me of a couple of movies from the 80s where a super intelligent home automation system goes HAL 9000 on the occupants]]>Aug 16th 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/Aug 16th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/energyhub-minds-your-electricity-saves-you-cash/ If you want to not get the 'dashboard' model but still want to see which outlets serve hogs or vampires, you can pick up the kill-a-watt for like $50. If you want to spend triple that you can get a power use monitor for your meter. This way you can also test items that are difficult to get to (i.e. AC, or other appliances).
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