Want to know how much energy your home is using at any given moment? If you’re an SDG&E customer, you can now purchase and install displays called home area network devices to see how much energy your home is using in near real-time and help identify high energy use appliances. With an in-home energy display device that wirelessly connects to your SDG&E electric smart meter, you now have the opportunity to access a new tool that will help you make decisions to reduce your overall energy usage and costs.
With a few simple steps, you can find out approximately how much energy that refrigerator in your garage is using, as you watch the kilowatts and estimated cost per hour go up or down on a small digital display in your home when you turn appliances on or off. Gone are the days of needing to “guess-timate” how much energy an outdoor patio light is using during the evening compared to that new energy-efficient TV. With these new in-home displays, that information can be at your fingertips.
SDG&E has tested several new in-home energy display devices and you can learn how to connect these validated devices to your electric smart meters at sdge.com/han. The third-party in-home displays below range in price from approximately $60 to $120, and have been tested and validated for smart meter compatibility:
- Energy Aware Technology PowerTab In-Home Display
- Where to purchase: store.energy-aware.com
- Features: Shows how much electricity your home is consuming at any given moment on a wireless and rechargeable, easy-to-use, magnetic backed display.
- Rainforest Automation Energy Display (model EMU)
- Where to purchase: rainforestautomation.com
- Features: Real-time energy display with instant access to smart meter energy consumption as it happens; simple two-button interface with tabletop or magnet mount; battery-powered.
- Rainforest Automation Energy Display (model EMU-2)
- Where to purchase: rainforestautomation.com
- Features: Real-time energy display with instant access to smart meter energy consumption as it happens; simple two-button interface with tabletop, magnet, or wall mount; plug-in with battery backup.
Start the process to connect an in-home display device to your smart meter by completing the online form at sdge.com/han, or by contacting HomeAreaNetwork@semprautilities.com or SDG&E’s Energy Savings Center at 800-644-6133.
I wonder if I can get one for water and gas too? I hope there will be a smart phone app for this soon. Track usage while away.
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I have had one for years. Use it two or three times a year. Love it. Home Depot has one for $20.28 VOA meters are good, I have several, IF you know what you are doing. Otherwise ZAP! smartments will be the least of your problems. For DC you can buy WattsUp meters. About $40.00 Also very good depending what you are doing. I use this to validate performance of solar panels, portable power and other DC applications. It has a computer port.
BioInitiative Report 2012 provides all the independent science and health authorities that are warning about connections between RF and cancer, autism, and more. http://www.bioinitiative.org/table-of-contents/ . Center for Electrosmog Prevention, a La Mesa-based national nonprofit, recommends NOT to pollute your home with radiofrequency radiation. We strongly advise NOT to purchase this device nor any new wireless signal-emitting home appliances (refrig, washer/dryers/ etc). Buy ones that do not have wireless. How to know what to avoid? Do not ask the salesman, they will likely not know. Look for a FCC ID number on the appliance. That means it has wireless signals. Don't buy it. www.electrosmogprevention.org
I realize that I am now being showered by Susan's ray's but if about 60 or so years of welding hasn't fried me I don't think her "Waves" will. Susan if you should read this what would you suggest ? Going back to wood fires and a coal oil lantern's, When our family came to California in 1940 the first place we lived up in the central valley by Fresno had a wood stove and light was the sun or a really stinking coal oil lantern, I have no desire to go back to those years thank you! Or wear a tin foil hat !
Susan sells these worthless devices to "protect" you against RF energy ... the only way to dissapate RF energy requires a path to ground ... so these cannot work whatsoever .. so they scare people that know no better about smart meters to sell them this garbage ...
Required to agree to in order to join the Home Area Network program - where your appliances talk to the smart meter, the Zigbee radio is activated, you can see what your appliances are doing in "near" real-time, AND SDG&E can, at will, power down or shut off your appliances. That includes heat, AC, refrig, washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc. All because they are connected to the HAN. AND you can't hold them liable for any personal injuries or property damage etc. Such a deal! Not to mention the increased radiation in your home. I hope no one falls for this very one-sided non-beneficial-to-the-customer program. Article above was crafted to entice, but doesn't tell all. "Customer acknowledges and agrees that: SDG&E, its current and future parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, managers, shareholders, employees, agents, and representatives (each an “SDG&E Party”) shall have no liability whatsoever for damages, losses, liabilities, expenses and costs (including, reasonable outside and allocated in-house attorneys’ fees), whether consequential, indirect, direct or otherwise, and whether arising in connection with personal injury, property damage, data loss or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with Customer’s HAN-enabled Devices. SDG&E makes no representations as to the safety, reliability, performance, security or efficiency of such devices."
Page 2 & 3: the HAN architecture as it relates to the utility. ... the utility, which has traditionally controlled the majority if not all the electrical infrastructure, will be able to control all the appliances within the home to better manage the grid. This is currently in use in some areas where consumers opt-in to allow the utility to shut off their Air Conditioning units during peak" (oage 3 diagram of smart appliances) [note: most now and then later, ALL new appliances will come wireless- ready, to be controlled by the utility]. http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=700977 Figure 1 Utility Managed Smart Devices (Image derived from [1])
Show the test and let people try their own phones.
If you can't do it, I am sure you have followers that can do it for you. Earth Day is coming up. Seems reasonable to have something other than beads, bobbles, and trinkets.
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You're right Ed, Susan just wants to sell that garbage ... you cannot attenuate energy without a path to ground .... its all a ripoff ...
That's a whole new subject we could talk about.
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