How to Save Energy at Home Without Compromise

If you are a home, married or single, the main cost, with the exception of tuition, rent, food and taxes, are for communication, entertainment and energy.

The cost of housing are the United States (in percent):

60% of housing payments, insurance, repairs and vehicle leases, taxes, and related services such as water and disposal.
10 to 14% of the energy for heating, cooling, cooling, electricity, water and cook
10-14% media and communication
9% in the food
7% in transport
The energy consumption can increase by 20% if you regularly cook warm food in the kitchen.
Before you make an informed decision about where to store, you need to know when and where you get energy.

Energy companies today sometimes give you basic usage statistics and correlate them with the outside temperature. A cynical point of view would be that this way the use of corporate layers presents justified, as is usually heat or extreme cold.

Other energy monitoring services on the Internet of Things (IoT) use, the collection of usage data and functionality to manage web-based pick-up in their central servers like reports of services subscription. They also sell your data or publish or at least the application of the government and the law. For example, in the energy consumption pattern, it can be determined that you are at home, whether you are cooking, watching TV or going to bed.

The best way to monitor your energy consumption is with a device, capacity and memory analysis, working on your own network, or even a network, but can communicate with their mobile devices without using Internet, or IoT service.

What kind of monitor do you use, you need a camera with a resolution of 7 days a daily resolution of a week daily resolution for months and years and can store at least 3 years of daily data. The unit must have a live view charging so that you can identify the use of appliances such as air conditioning, oven, refrigerator, TV, spa, pool, kitchen and others.

Stand-alone devices, there are many, will be made on the spot, support and respect the code and generally at a slightly higher cost, but worth the investment. Some products for the professional use of three-phase current and data recording and special equipment for the US households, which normally require phase 2 (240V / 120V) without high-resolution data acquisition and thus cheaper.

Needless to say, I am one of those devices and self alt with iPad 2, which is permanently fixed (via WiFi) next to the electrical panel using 24 hours or other aspect of the device. All HTML-5 browsers with Java will work with the device.

So I can see at a glance whether the use is unusual. For example, 3 hours of power consumption rose when the children came home, overtime operation of the air conditioning because the outside doors were open.

But there are other things that you learn for example, a water heater at 120 ° F, which many do, cost a lot of money. Even in the summer, the temperature difference is high and so the heat is discharged through the building insulation and piping when you have your electrician to turn off the heaters at 90 ° F, the lowest setting much water for several showers to a pleasant temperature, but depending on your The energy costs for hot water are reduced by 40% in summer and 60% in winter.

If you are traveling and you are not at home for long periods of time a solution that you can consider is to turn off the hot water heater - takes only 20 minutes to reach a temperature for a comfortable shower. In winter, you can keep the heating when your environment is not turned off under the freezing point for extended periods of time.

If you still have conventional lighting, the lighting is a legitimate cost factor, and you will see power with the monitor. With LED lighting in my house, lighting has also been used in all public areas of my home that uses the qua reduced to be an insignificant part of my energy consumption motion sensors

A typical American home, my garage straight into the house and space the garagendach was attached an opening to the chamber between the ground floor and 2nd floor. This causes the bottom of summer heat and winter cold soil. Energy monitor controls the use of energy to improve on days when the temperatures were similar and recognized as a direct result of the insulation of the opening heat.

Finally, the energy monitor helped me capture a sewage pump thermostats in the air conditioning system, are plugged into an old inefficient refrigerator. I learned that the configuration of the air-conditioning units in overlapping areas is overlapping to very different set temperatures is a bad idea, a higher efficiency is achieved if both are adjusted to the same target temperature.

My annual energy costs on average $ 3600 I found replacing inefficient equipment could save $ 150 a year. Change the way I saw my use of energy could save an extra $ 800 a year. Monitor energy costs are $ 425 so my initial investment was successful. I help you to recognize the bad habits of energy consumption when established, which allows me to correct this even more.

I plan to make my house run purely from the solar energy that I can use the power monitor to get the amount of energy to see that I take the grid