New Year’s Resolutions: save energy the smart way

Awox SmartPLUG Bluetooth Smart Power Adapter

Gadgets and appliances are great, but if you’re not careful your electricity bill will keep creeping up. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to find out which of your gadgets is using the most power, and make sure that wastage is kept to a minimum: the Awox SmartPlug. Let’s take a look at how it works, and what it can do for you!

Measure your electricity usage from your phone

Awox SmartPLUG Bluetooth Smart Power Adapter

First of all, this plug can measure how much electricity whatever is plugged into it is using. You could plug your TV, set top box and games console into it (individually or as a group) to see if it’s worth turning them off at the mains between sessions. You could see how much energy your coffee maker is wasting just to keep an LED switched on while you’re away at work.

Ditch old-school measuring plugs

Awox SmartPLUG Bluetooth Smart Power Adapter

We’ve all seen power measuring plugs that can do this, but the SmartPlug is different because it doesn’t have a built-in monochrome display or tiny terrible buttons. Instead, all of the data is sent to your smartphone over Bluetooth, letting you see much more information displayed in a more intuitive way. That means the plug can be much smaller, and it doesn’t need to be easily accessible to work.

See live data, history and set schedules

Awox SmartPLUG Bluetooth Smart Power Adapter

The Awox SmartControl app includes a live power feed, letting you know how much energy you’re using in real time. That makes it quick and easy to identify power-hungry gadgets, letting you save potentially hundreds of pounds each year. You can also see power usage over longer time periods; in a day, a week or a month.

Once you’ve identified power-hungry appliances, you can set up a schedule so that they turn on just the times when you need them — or turn them on and off manually, using your smartphone as a remote control. That’ll limit your power usage, shrinking your bill.

Use multiple SmartPlugs at once

Awox SmartPLUG Bluetooth Smart Power Adapter

You can also use multiple SmartPlugs together from inside the same app. You can set up groups too, like ‘kitchen gadgets’ or ‘TV setup’, so you can easily see how much energy each room or area in your house is using.

Wrapping up

The Awox SmartPlug is an easy way to save money by lowering your electricity bill. Find out which gadgets in your home are using the most electricity, then do something about it — like leaving them switched off at the mains between uses, or set up an automatic schedule using the SmartPlug app. You can even use the SmartPlug to remotely turn plugs on and off, so it’ll work even for awkwardly placed plugs that are hard to access. To get a SmartPlug of your very own or see more info, please visit the product page linked below:

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