Ecois.Me – Save The Planet, Your Energy and Money
Look here. Yes, right here. You are currently looking at some kind of a monitor. And what is that monitor running on? Electricity, of course. It is either your smartphone, your laptop, your desktop PC or some other kind of device that has access to internet. All of them use electric power, one of the most popular renewable sources of energy today. Arguably, it is one of the most wide spread and cleanest sources of energy, but the fact is, we still sometimes overuse it. We tend to leave many devices on or on sleep mode, that still uses energy, and without knowing it, we get bigger electricity bills than we want to. This is why Ecois.me is here to help you manage the problem of unnecessary electricity consumption.
Plug and Save
EcoisMe is a Ukrainia-founded startup which emerged out of an energy-focused hackathon at TeslaCamp in August 2013. They recently obtained 80K in funding from Krakow based Hubraum and they moved to Poland. Currently they are working with Deutsche Telekom to have the first pilot run for their customers.
Every year price of any kind of energy, including electricity, grows and will continue to do so. For example, in Germany the government plans to close all nuclear power plants until 2022 and increase the share of renewable sources to 80% until 2050. All these factors will influence the price increase, especially for renewable sources like electricity.
We will need to monitor our consumption more closely, and we will need a good solution for that. Ecois.Me provides easy, cheap and effective, and it allows you to see how much energy you consume and how to save it accordingly at your own home.
Two Pieces of A Helpful Puzzle
It is a hardware and software-based solution. The hardware part measures total energy consumption and it is a IoT enabled sensor that you connect to your main power line. Then you connect it to their cloud and it will send data to their system. The system then analyses power consumption and identifies every single device plugged into your electrical grid to show you how efficient they are. In the end it will recommend easy-to-follow advices to save energy. Although they say that you can save up to 30%, first beta-customers reported that they were able to save 46% of electricity after 2 months of EcoisMe usage.
The biggest advance is that you don’t need to connect each and every device that you have at your home into their system piece by piece. To identify home appliances, they use comprehensive technology which combines spectral and power analysis. With a help of a single cheap hardware device, EcoisMe allows you to identify all home appliances and all electrical devices even with power consumption that varies. With their clear analysis you will know exactly how much energy you spent for your washing machine, lightbulbs, microwave oven, TV, laptops, etc.
Save Your Home
Their analytics engine will in time become smarter and more connected to the grid and it will let you know if there are any power outages, like your freezer dying. If you can imagine how much this energy effective method in your home can save for you, imagine how it can tip the scale and energy consumption on a bigger scale. Global warming is a serious problem, and one of the main problems with it is that we don’t see on a micro scale how we contribute to it. With this, results will be out there in the numbers and prices that we can astrally see, unlike the electrical current.
Ecois.me is a smart, easy to use and extremely helpful to your wallet. It will cost you a ridiculously small amount of money to install it, and it will help you save a lot of it in the future. Although we all say that we love our planet, sometimes, ironically, we all need a little wake up call in the form of currency. So save some energy while you save nature!
