Remotely control a wide range of home appliances and office equipment from anywhere. Retrofit your standard electrical wall boxes, power sockets, and light switches or other places with limited space.
Remotely control a wide range of home appliances and office equipment from anywhere. Retrofit your standard electrical wall boxes, power sockets, and light switches or other places with limited space.
Remotely control a wide range of home appliances and office equipment from anywhere. Retrofit your standard electrical wall boxes, power sockets, and light switches or other places with limited space.
Remotely control a wide range of home appliances and office equipment from anywhere. Retrofit your standard electrical wall boxes, power sockets, and light switches or other places with limited space.
Remotely control a wide range of home appliances and office equipment from anywhere. Retrofit your standard electrical wall boxes, power sockets, and light switches or other places with limited space.
A smart energy meter is a clever device that can do more than just count. It not only measures how much electricity you use, but also tells you when and where consumption takes place. Instead of a single figure that slowly but steadily increases over time, a smart energy meter provides you with precise data that you can use to recognize consumption patterns and track down power guzzlers. In this context, we keep hearing about smart meters. But what is the difference? Is there one at all?
Although the terms are often used interchangeably, there are differences. An intelligent energy meter shows you your electricity consumption, stores consumption values, analyses them and creates a consumption forecast. A smart meter, on the other hand, consists of an intelligent energy meter and a communication unit. This automatically transmits consumption data to energy suppliers - for example, to find out how much electricity you have fed into the grid with your PV system. Smart meters are mandatory under the Metering Point Operation Act (MsbG): from an annual consumption of 6,000 kWh or for a PV feed-in system with more than 7 kWp.
A smart energy meter digitally records the energy flows in the household. It not only provides the current meter reading, but also consumption values broken down by time, for example for individual days or months. The data is recorded electronically using special sensors. Depending on the type of energy meter you use, the information from the device can also be transmitted to an app in real time and used for intelligent consumption planning in the smart home. With Shelly's solutions, for example, you can implement this function quickly and easily and automate your very own energy transition.
A smart energy meter has a number of advantages. It provides more transparency in everyday life and shows you not only how much electricity you are using, but also when and where. If you know your exact energy consumption, you can easily optimize consumption planning in your household and simply increase efficiency. This turns a simple energy meter into a real tool for a more conscious use of energy - and a valuable tool for the energy transition and for your wallet. Let's take a closer look at the benefits.
Use your energy meter as a smart control centre - for more control, lower costs and an active contribution to the energy transition.
Instead of just showing a total value, smart energy meters provide detailed information: When is how much electricity consumed by which appliance? This helps to identify power guzzlers in everyday life - without any estimates.
If you know your consumption, you can make more targeted savings. Especially in times of fluctuating prices, an itemized consumption forecast is helpful to know whether electricity consumption is particularly high at night, during the day or when cooking.
With a smart energy meter like the one from Shelly, the data can be read digitally - conveniently via app, without having to open the meter box or even be on site.
You can use Shelly to integrate the consumption data directly into your smart home - for example, to only run appliances when electricity is particularly cheap or when a lot of solar power is available.
Because the networked energy meters store data over longer periods of time, it is easier to track changes in consumption - for example when switching to LEDs, changing the heating system or buying an electric car. This turns consumption planning into a simple maths task.
If you really want to know what the kilowatt hours on your bill are used for, you need more than just the meter reading. The solution: the Shelly Pro 3EM. The smart energy meter is installed by a professional directly in the distribution box. There it measures consumption on three phases simultaneously. This is particularly practical if you also want to monitor individual circuits or specifically analyse three-phase consumers such as cookers, heat pumps or wallboxes. The data can then be analysed via the Shelly Smart Control app: whether for consumption planning, for integration into the smart home or to increase efficiency.
If you have a PV system, you can use the Pro 3EM to connect the data from your photovoltaic system directly to your smart home - and thus optimally analyse and use your solar energy. To do this, simply have the Pro 3EM installed in the distribution box by a professional and then receive all the important information in the app. As a three-phase power consumption meter, it records how much energy you produce and how much electricity is consumed or fed in. You can simply use the Pro 3EM in addition to the classic smart meter to ensure that you use as much PV electricity as possible yourself - and feed in as little as possible.
Sometimes just one or two power guzzlers in the whole house cause high consumption - you can find these with the Shelly EM Gen3 or the particularly compact EM Mini (for appliances up to 16 amps), for example. This allows you to specifically monitor individual consumers such as the heat pump, wallbox, grandma's old freezer or the washing machine. The meters measure precisely how much electricity is flowing and when - and send the data to your smartphone in real time. If you not only want to measure consumption, but also automate and optimize it, you can use the 1PM Gen3 or 2PM Gen3, for example.
A smart meter is not mandatory for a balcony power plant, but intelligent energy meters enable the precise recording of energy flows and the optimization of self-consumption.
You need an intelligent inverter that cleverly regulates the flow of electricity and, ideally, an electricity storage unit. Smart energy meters help to monitor and optimize everything.
Because a smart meter or intelligent energy meter can be used to analyze and optimise electricity consumption and energy flows - regardless of the grid operator or billing cycle.
The Shelly energy meter measures your consumption in real time - ideal for smart homes, consumption planning and full transparency.
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