By Brent Ehrlich
The last decade has seen an explosion in the variety of products available to monitor our energy use and provide
complex “smart” controls. There’s still plenty of room for new ideas, however, as shown by SafePlug outlets, made by 2D2C, Inc. Originally designed to protect occupants against electric shock and fire, SafePlug is the only plug-and-play system that uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to help track energy use from
individual appliances and turn them on and off remotely.
The SafePlug Energy Manager System comes with two Energy Manager receptacles; a wireless Energy Server (which looks similar to a wireless router) and software; and RightPlug RFID tags. A building owner can quickly install the system with the following steps.
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