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Wattcher: a beautiful way to save energy
The Wattcher is a design object that displays your home's total electricity consumption in a beautiful and meaningful way. When you switch on any electrical device, the Wattcher shows the extra power consumption. It gives you insight into your energy behavior and helps you save energy.
How it works
The Wattcher consists of a sensor, a sending unit and a display. The sensor can be placed on any electricity meter (analog meters with a turning wheel, digital meters with LED pulse, and smart meters). The sensor is connected to the sending unit. Both are placed in the meter closet. The sending unit sends a radio signal to the display unit, which can be placed in any (euro standard) electricity socket. The Wattcher can be selfinstalled by the consumer.
Dutch design
The Wattcher has been designed by Marcel Wanders. Marcel designed the Wattcher to be the ticking heart of the home: “The design is very clean and has urgency in pointing out your energy consumption. The Wattcher is more than just a product; it is a strategy that stimulates awareness.” The Wattcher was nominated for the Dutch Design Award 2009 and has won the ICT~Environment Award 2010. We are very proud of that! See more pictures about the Dutch Design Award exhibition.
Wattcher shows
• current power consumption (in Watts): how much energy you're using at this moment.
• daily consumption (in kiloWattday): your total electricity consumption in the last 24 hours.
• target consumption (in %): daily consumption compared with your own target. Are you really saving energy?
The Wattcher uses very little energy. The combined consumption of all Wattcher components (sensor, sending unit and display) is less than 1 Watt.
Wattcher-online
The Wattcher comes with Wattcher-online, an on-line saving program that provides additional help and insights into energy saving (currently only in Dutch). With your personal Wattcher-online webpage you can keep track of your energy use and compare it with others.
Wattcher-energy battles
The Wattcher and Wattcher Online are frequently used to do a battle inside a company or between companies, households and/or municipalities. The savings are very high: 18% on average in TNT Post Energy Battle with 75 participants, 16,5% on average in Den Bosch Energy Battle with 145 participants, 13% on average in the Smart Challenge with 310 participants. Read the Smart Magazine with the results of the Smart Challenge in Amsterdam, and read the experiences from some users:
Arnold Meulenbelt: 'I saved 291 euro this year'
Wanted to share with you that due to the Wattcher I managed to save €291 this year. Received it back from E-On last week. I changed the standby power behavior and the other thing is that I plan my drying cycles (wash dryer) even more.
Thanks for the opportunity to use the Wattcher!
Kind regards, Arnold Meulenbelt
Quality/Support Manager Philips Drachten
Where to buy
The Wattcher has a price of 99 euro and can be purchased at shop.wattcher.nl (also in English).
Contact
For more information about the Wattcher and all activities around it, please contact:
Wattcher BV
Arno van Wayenburg
Email
Danzigerkade 15
1013AP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)20 3868702
www.wattcher.nl