If you want to keep an eye on how much energy your household uses and how you can reduce some of your monthly utility bill, a home energy monitor seems like a good solution. A home energy monitor can ...

A good solar monitoring system doesn’t just track your solar panel’s output — it also helps you use less energy. We looked for solar monitoring systems that go above and beyond tracking and found ...

Best known for its home entertainment controllers, Control4 gets funds to expand into smart-grid products to monitor and control home energy use. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

S mart plugs make it possible to control and automate dumb devices using a smart home system, and those with energy ...

The first step to reducing the energy consumption of your home is figuring out how much you actually use in the first place. After all, you need a baseline to compare against when you start making ...

Intel on Wednesday said that it has invented an experimental low-cost sensor that can be plugged into house wiring and instantly measure and report power consumption of each electrical load in the ...

Dutch smart home hub manufacturer Athom has added new energy-monitoring capabilities to the app for its Homey series of smart home hubs and Homey cloud services. The company also announced the new ...

The surge of interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) market has led to a deluge of smart home devices, but it’s still very much a modular segment. What I mean by that is you might own a connected ...

U.K.-based monitoring services company Intamac Systems on Wednesday announced that it received a £4 million, or approximately $5.93 million USD, investment to develop its cloud-based home energy ...

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