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This Tiny Gadget Tells You Exactly How Much Power Your House and Gadgets Use

"The wires that run through every wall look like a nervous system linking all these appliances into a single place," he says. "Except that today we don’t have any intelligence in the center."

Ali Kashani lived in a small apartment, but he had big heating bills. The culprit, it turns out, was a broken heater in his bedroom that was eating up about $50 a month worth of electricity–even though it wasn’t giving him any heat.

Kashani is the CTO of a startup called Neurio http://www.neur.io/ , and he discovered this phantom heater with the startup’s flagship product: a device plugs into a home’s breaker panel and monitors electrical use. It can work in just about any house or apartment, giving you a detailed look at how much power all your appliances and gadgets actually consume.

By Klint Finley

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/tiny-gadget-plugs-house-monitors-power-use/

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