Sense Energy Monitor with Solar – Track Electricity Usage and Solar Production in Real Time Meets Rigorous ETL/Intertek Safety Standards
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- SENSE SAVES: Sense saves you energy and money by providing insight into your home's energy use and activity. NOW SUPPORTING TIME-OF-USE RATE PLANS.
- MAXIMIZE YOUR SOLAR ENERGY USE: Compare solar production and energy consumption side-by-side in a single view so you can maximize the power you make and minimize the power you buy.
- SEE WHATS UP. KNOW WHATS ON: Track how much electricity youre using, what time your kids got home, or when someone leaves the basement light on. Sense identifies patterns in your energy use to help your family be more efficient, informed, and secure.
- AVOID DISASTER: Set custom notifications for critical devices, like your sump pump, well pump, or flat iron.
- MEETS RIGOROUS SAFETY STANDARDS: Senses components and system have been designed and ETL/Intertek certified for installation and operation inside the electrical panel. Sense is not currently available or compatible outside the United States and Canada.
Manufacturer: Sense
Part Number: 12001
Item Weight: 3.08 pounds
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.6 x 7.4 inches
Item model number: 12001
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Style: Sense w/Solar
Pattern: Monitor
Power Source: Solar Powered
Voltage: 120240 Volts
Item Package Quantity: 1
Included Components: Sense monitor, Additional Set of Current Sensors (2 pcs), Power Cable, Set of Current Sensors (2 pcs), Mounting Bracket, Antenna
Batteries Included?: No
Batteries Required?: No
Warranty Description: Limited Manufacturer Warranty
Date First Available: September 11, 2017
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As an engineer, I've been fairly satisfied with the Sense Solar. It gives me great information how much solar power I am generating vs. power consumption, which is the primary reason I bought it. First, the Sense box and solar kit came in a very nice solid package. Maybe a little too much was printed out, but no complaints because it is a good reference guide during installation. Installation was relatively simple. I don't recommend or advise anyone to do this, but I installed it myself and did the entire installation without shutting off the main power panel. Bought a 20A double pole breaker, connected it up to the 3 lines (hot, neutral, and ground) to the Sense box. Then hook up the current transformers to the incoming power lines and the solar power lines in the breaker box, it's good to go. Sense also provided an external WiFi Antenna. Originally I was going to poke a hole in the service panel for the WiFi Antenna because WiFi cannot penetrate a metal box obviously. But after closer examination, I could use the electrical conduit that goes inside the house and it is plastic. I was proven correct after I powered up everything. Strong 90% signal on the 2.4 Ghz even though I am going through walls. I do have some concerns that Sense is only rated for 32°F-122°F since my service panel is outdoor and I can see outdoor temperature easily exceed the rated temperature. But knowing a little bit about electronics give me some assurance that it will continue to work below freezing. But the temperature range seems very restrictive in my opinion for something that can be installed outdoor. Additionally, the warranty is only 1 year which tells me Sense may not have a lot of confidence in their product. The whole device is mostly plastic but well built. Only time will tell. The price is a little high for current sensing smart devices, but the ability to detect and track appliance usage intrigued me and I was willing to pay a little more to test it. 1 week after installing the Sense, my Sense was still waiting for signal check, but I was getting basic usage reading for both Solar and consumption. Then I got an email from Sense tech support for permission to review my usage data due to a possible issue with my Sense install. I gave them permission and Sense told me that I connected my current transformers (clamp) to the same power line. I checked my panel and even sent a picture telling them I clamped one to the left, one to the right. I am not stupid, you know? Tech support got back to me within 24 hours and told me some panels with bus bars would switch lines as they run through the breakers. Sure enough, they were right when I hooked up my multi-meter. I changed the clamp to connect to the correct power line and also reset data of my Sense. Within 1 day, signal check was complete and now I am getting two steams of data (2 power lines) instead of a single line. My experience with tech support is Sense really had good email support and my questions were answered usually within 24 hours. They also monitor your data to make sure you didn't mess up on your setup. I give them kudos for being proactive. Next comes the device detection. Being an engineer, I didn't have high confidence that it will work that well. Within a day or 2, it discovered a couple of devices like my electric dryer (duh), frig, etc. Then things started to slow down and become less and less accurate. At the time of this review, which is about a month after Sense was first installed correctly at my house, it has detected 14 devices, some very questionable in my opinion. But I am still fairly happy with the Sense as it met most of my goals, so when it discovers new devices just become exciting events for me. It seems to discover about 1-2 new devices a week most likely because the detection happens in the cloud (my guess). As mentioned, detection seems to be hit and miss and some devices may be detected sometimes but not consistently. I haven't had a full billing cycle yet but seem to be a 2-5% difference between my solar inverter report of power generation and Sense. Given there might be some small losses from the inverter to the breaker, 2-5% still translate to a report of 38 kWh vs 40 kWh which can be significant for some people. I also want to point out that they have both an app and Web site that you can access your consumption information. I hope detection will continue to improve overtime because of cloud learning, but I understand how hard it is to separate the noise because there are so many different things that can affect detection. But that's where Sense stands out against similar products and I hope they will continue to offer new features. I think if you manage your expectation, you should be satisfied with Sense. ********** New update December 2019 - I have been using the the Sense Solar for about 6 months. I am disappointed that detection did not improve and only 1 device was detected as heat. about 50% of my usage are still listed as other, so I am not as happy with Sense as I did before. Also, it seems to get confused and mix devices with similar usage pattern up. It's not ready for prime time when it comes to detection. But it does provide me very accurate usage and solar generation information, that's where this thing shines. Also, it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside at night and the Sense is working just fine in a protective electronically enclosure. So it's operating outside of the manufacturer's rated environment. I also don't see how I save any money since owning Sense. As a result of my recent experience with detection, I am lowering my rating from 4 stars to 3 stars. I will update if it is improved. **** New update December 2020 Sense unit still works fine outdoor behind my electrical panel, so it can operate outside of the manufacture's recommended operating temperature range. Detection is still a gimmick at best with 47% of my annual usage categorized as other and 15.3% as Always on after second year of usage. So overall, 62% of my electric usage is unknown to Sense, that defeats the purpose of sensing. I kept my rating as 3 star because it is not able to do what it was advertised to do, and I can't say I save any money as a result. ***** Updated April 2021 I now downgraded my Sense review to 2 Star. While it works well to estimate between how much power I use vs how much solar I generate, it fails at its promise for Sensing and saving power. over 50% of my power usage is either always on or Other, plus sometimes the app displays something that's clearly not on, it clearly has not lived up to its name and I would have paid far less with other solutions.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2019 by R. Lin
I am an energy producer and wanted to monitor all the loads and production on my pool house. After one month of installation I still have loads such as my pool pump that runs twice daily that are identified by sense as “other” which simply means you cannot track these loads until the sense identification is completed. There are no tools to for self identification of loads and I have seen Sense mistakenly identify a similar load on my panel and group it’s power usage with another device. Not ideal if your trying to get an accurate account of your device usage. To date my Sense unit has only identified four loads and groups all unidentifiable loads as “other” with no way to track or break out the loads or associate with the correct device. I have 22 devices that consume power in my building and after a month of Sense it’s smarts have only identified four (4/22) I’m not happy with my purchase and was led to believe by Sense support that it will get better with time. Negative If it doesn’t perform return it while you can. It’s too late for me I bought their bsgetti
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018 by CFREEL
This is basically a $300+ product that "promises" you things, which may/may-not pan out, over a period longer than the return policy. It promises to find devices, but most of the time it does a bad job at it -- especially for the devices you really care about, such as HVAC, dishwasher, etc and very obvious to the eye. e.g it's not useful it detects the A/C only at the END of Summer, and then proceeds to forget about it before the next summer. I have devices on a TP-Link smart-plug, co-registered with Sense, which disagree on runtime. Sense says 4 or 8 hours, shows a graph that is obviously much more than that -- TP-Link says 17 hours. Some reason Sense won't use the switch's ground-truth data. This is a ticket I've had with them since Dec, 2018 and they won't fix/touch it. Runtime is only one of the problems -- you can never actually trust that it's doing an accurate measurement of the actual electrical draw, unless it's a direct measurement. This is because Sense is best only at a dying-breed of electronics that uses old-style motors. Modern electronics such as computers, laptops, refrigerators with linear inverter motors (LG), TiVos, PlayStation 3/4, cable box, NAS, WiFi router, inverter microwave, plasma TV, LED lights, .. How much of this includes what you use daily? You can only be sure if your device is plugged into an energy-monitor that's doing direct, not remotely inferred, measurement. Then the worse part of it all, it tries to be iOS smart and auto-configure your CTs (measurement transformers) for you. If you have them mounted in reverse, backwards in your power-panel, Sense tries to detect that and auto-correct it, and then it's remotely locked down. So if it happens to be misconfigured remotely on Sense's end, there's absolutely nothing you can locally to fix it. Any other system would give you a diagnostics page so you can at least figure it out, but not with Sense. You're at the mercy of CS whom may just make things much worse and then blame other devices in your system instead of the auto-misconfiguration. So, don't get Sense for Sense. Get Sense for the fact it's the best TP-Link centralized device-display UI available, for an outrageous $300+. IFTTT integration: bad. Sense only has rules for on/off. However, modern devices have also have an "idle" state which is in between on/off. Sense just added support for recognizing "idle" in their UI, but NOT in their IFTTT rules. So if you wanted to trigger something when say your dishwasher is DONE, but not exactly off, you can't! Here's another irony. For a monitoring device, there's no IFTTT rules for energy consumption, nor production. So again, you can't trigger actions whenever your solar goes over a certain value, stays at a certain value, or drops below a certain value, for some amount of time. You can't trigger something when say your house starts using X amount of power so you can start automatically turning off Y devices.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019 by J. Lee
I've had this installed in my home for five months. So far it has found 14 devices. Lights, TVs, computers, appliances, water heaters, pumps, etc. are missing and can't be monitored (they show up as anonymous "Other" devices). Sense support's response: "While device detection can definitely be a frustrating process, I do suggest giving Sense some more time to see if it is able to pick up on either component." Then they try to sell me other products to help. Apparently five months isn't enough time for Sense to 'detect' something as exotic as a hot water heater.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019 by larryw larryw