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4Home Monitoring System Lets You Track and Control Energy Use

by Terrence O'Brien on January 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM


Last week at CES, 4Home Inc. showed off its new 4Home Energy system that lets you track and control the amount of heat and electricity used by any device in your home. The outlet modules and thermostat all report back to a base unit which can be accessed via a Web browser. From there, consumers can see not only broad energy use reports, but can drill down and see how much electricity a particular lamp uses. Best of all, the base unit can be accessed from anywhere, and can even be controlled by a smart phone.

Suggestions for saving power will be offered by the 4Home Energy software so that the home owner can cut costs and feel better by doing his/her part to waste less electricity.

Only downside? 4Home did not announce pricing or availability -- instead, it announced that it would be announcing pricing and availability on February 3.

Tags: 4home, 4home energy, 4homeEnergy, bills, ces-2009-top, cost cutting, CostCutting, electricity, home automation, HomeAutomation, saving, savings

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