Unfortunately, we suffer a lot paying huge amount of power bills adding an extra burden to our pockets, especially in the summer season. Regardless of the fact that electricity is consumed by our home appliances that we don’t really care to switch off. Or should we blame it on a faulty meter or electricity service provider?
Luckily, it has been made possible to overcome this extra burden as Fictive labs launches Wattie, a device which provides a reliable information of your daily electric consumption.
Wattie is a smart device that connects with your smartphone providing you a detail of useful electricity consumption data and even suggest you to minimize your usage and saves bill up to 25%. The stats given by Wattie shows you how much of electricity is being consumed by your home appliances.
How it works?
This smart gadget, Wattie is made to plug in to your home electricity box and automatically gets connected via Wi-Fi router, providing electricity consumption data to your smartphone.
As the data shows your electricity consumption of your home appliances, you can have a detailed view of standby mode and usage mode of all the devices. A survey conducted by international energy agency indicates a figure of 10% electric consumption by devices in a standby power mode.
The main initiative behind Wattie is that people put their devices on standby mode and most of the time they forget to keep a track of it. This device helps you out to keep a detailed information of electricity consumption. People will be specified about the devices to turn off as standby mode sums up in power bills.
The device remains connected to the main electricity panel, calculating raw data and sending it further to Wattie’s AI platform. The data is then transferred back to its mobile app which shows real time information of electricity usage, loads on meter phases, daily consumption and much more. On top of that, Wattie app also calculate accurate monthly expected bill by analyzing per units cost and GST.
Cost of Wattie
Fictive Labs have put an introductory price of just Rs 2,900 for this product. It’s an affordable price to make a decision for purchase. Wattie comes up with a lifetime warranty. Subscription charges for Wattie is service is just Rs 300 on quarterly basis.
