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Smart Home Energy Monitor with 8 50A Circuit Level Sensors | Vue - Real Time Electricity Monitor/Meter | Solar/Net Metering

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Gen 2
whole home monitor with 8 circuit sensors

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Brand EMPORIA
Style Monitor with 8 50A Sensors
Power Source Hardwire
Material Gen 2

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  • INSTALLS IN CIRCUIT PANEL of most homes with clamp-on sensors. Supports single-phase up to 240VAC line-neutral; single, split-phase 120/240VAC; and three-phase up to 415Y/240VAC (no Delta). Panels with access only to busbars will need flexible sensors available from Emporia Energy.
  • 24/7 ENERGY MONITORING: Monitor your home's real power anywhere, anytime to prevent costly repairs, conserve energy, and save costs. Monitor solar / net metering. Light commercial 3 phase option available as a separate bundle. PROTECTED BY A 1-YEAR WARRANTY.
  • APPLIANCE MONITORING WITHOUT GUESSWORK: Comes with eight (8) 50A sensors to accurately monitor your air conditioner, furnace, water heater, washer, dryer, range, etc. Add up to eight more sensors.
  • LOWER YOUR ELECTRIC BILL: Gauge real-time spending and get actionable notifications to understand where you can save costs.
  • REAL-TIME ENERGY DATA: REQUIRES 2.4 GHz WIFI WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION to monitor energy use with iPhone / Android / Web app. Vue sensors collect energy data and are accurate from ±2%. The Vue is UL and CE Listed for your safety. 1 second data is only available in the app (when actively open) and retained 3 hours. Minute and hour data are retained in the cloud. 1 minute data is retained 7 days, 1 hour data is retained indefinitely. Export cloud data whenever you want in the app.
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Turning Power Into Knowledge

Emporia Vue and Emporia App

Protect your home’s health in real time with the Emporia Vue Energy Monitor!

Emporia has developed the next generation of the Vue Energy Monitor. Committed to bringing the best features as affordable as possible, the Vue provides everything you need to monitor your entire home's energy usage in real time. See how much electricity your home is using anywhere, anytime.

  • 24/7 Real Power and Generation Monitoring
  • Real-time Data — anytime, anywhere
  • Individual Circuit Tracking (with 50A sensor bundles)
  • Net Metering for Solar Generation
  • 3-Phase Option (with 3-phase bundle)
  • Actionable Push Notifications

The Vue is Right for You!

50A Circuit Sensors

Emporia Vue App Net Metering

Emporia Vue Installation in Circuit Panel

Monitor Individual Circuits without the Guesswork

Add individual 50A sensors to your Vue to monitor up to 16 individual circuits — providing accurate energy use for the appliances and equipment that is important to you. No guesswork. No trying to discern energy signals from background noise. Just simple, easy, and accurate insight into your home. 50A sensors are sold separately and also sold in bundles with the Vue.

Measure Solar Net Metering without Extra Hardware

Solar net metering is built right into the Emporia Vue. The simple Emporia iOS and Android app will show when and how much electricity you are consuming and when and how much excess energy you are producing back to the grid — giving you keen insight into the impact of your solar panels as they relate to your energy use.

Installs in the Electrical Circuit Panel of your Home

The Gen 2 Vue installs in your home's electrical panel using CT sensor clamps that go around your mains and the other circuits you wish to monitor. DIY instructions included, but a professional electrician is recommended. The Vue system is designed for field installation in a switch enclosure as per 312.8(B) of the 2017 NEC regarding Power Monitoring Equipment.

Flexible Current Sensors

Do You have Metal Bus Bar Mains in Your Panel?

Our Flexible Current Sensor solution is now available on the EmporiaEnergy website. These current sensors are meant to replace the 200A main sensors that ship with Gen 2 Vues. They employ a bendable Rogowski coil with a 1.4” (36mm) opening that can fit around most bus bars or into tight spaces where a standard current sensors clamp cannot fit. Installing the Flexible Current Sensors is still dangerous, and Emporia highly recommends that installation be performed by a licensed electrician or other qualified professional.

Emporia Smart Plugs

Add Emporia Smart Plugs to Your Vue

Emporia Smart Plugs (sold separately) can be added to your Vue system to help you to not only monitor the energy of lighting and small appliances, but to also set timers, schedules, and turn them on and off from anywhere, any time with the Emporia app.


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4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
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Customers say

Customers like the accuracy, quality, performance, value, and energy monitoring of the motion detector device. For example, they mention that it's reasonably accurate, provides real-time data on energy usage for each circuit in your home, and is well worth the price. That said, some complain that the app doesn't work well enough.

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460 customers mention396 positive64 negative

Customers find the installation of the motion detector device to be relatively easy. They mention that the instructions are simple, easy to follow, and accurate. They also say that the app is fairly easy to use, but you may need to do some calculations and calibrate. Customers also say the product is an easy project for a DIYer who is comfortable working within a specific area. They appreciate the excellent support from Emporia.

"...you the chance to correct and connect them to separate busbars; quite convenient, and this gives you the confidence that the equipment is indeed..." Read more

"...individual circuit in real time 1-second intervals, it's quite easy to see electric usage even on circuits that power multiple things...." Read more

"...It's easy to install, simple to use, and provides crucial insights into electricity usage...." Read more

"...The instructions are simple, easy to follow, and accurate. The installation itself is easy and went relatively quickly...." Read more

406 customers mention316 positive90 negative

Customers like the performance of the motion detector device. They mention it works well, is impressed, and pleased with the results. The app works well enough, but there is no native way to integrate with Home Automation. The CSV download works flawlessly, and is easy to use.

"Hello!This is an excellent product and quite affordable (Vue Gen2, with 8 sensors in addition to the main two that come by default)...." Read more

"This is an excellent product and it comes with great support and customer service also...." Read more

"...purchased this electricity monitor, and I'm genuinely impressed with its performance. Installation was a breeze, which was a pleasant surprise...." Read more

"...The main unit is a circuit board in a plastic case, pretty normal fare, the sensors connect by regular mini "phono" plugs...." Read more

269 customers mention205 positive64 negative

Customers like the quality of the motion detector device. They say it's useful and informative, with clear end results and insight into usage. They also appreciate the helpful tips and instructions. Customers are impressed with Marty's knowledge and say it helps them be conscious about their usage.

"...Graphics are quite useful, as they provide a lot of information at different time steps and for each and every circuit, and also in Amps or..." Read more

"...The Vue will also give you insight into the big things as well - the usage of electric water heater, clothes dryer, cooktop, oven, etc...." Read more

"...Tech support is awesome! They respond, know their stuff, and stay engaged until the issue is resolved.I did the installation myself...." Read more

"...One note the ends of the CT's are fragile and two were intermittent after pushing through a 6" length of snug conduit so be careful installing them...." Read more

248 customers mention229 positive19 negative

Customers like the energy monitoring of the motion detector device. They say it provides real-time data on energy usage for each circuit in their home. They also say it's useful to monitor the energy usage of their house, providing great real- time information. Customers also mention that it'll help them track usage over time and find issues with specific legs of power. They appreciate the ability to see their energy usage history by the second, minute, hour, day, week, and month.

"...the information provided is quite useful, as you will know the consumption of almost all your..." Read more

"...This device will let you see your total usage on everything, and up to 16 different individual circuits...." Read more

"...This data is invaluable for making informed decisions about energy use and has helped me understand my household's energy habits better...." Read more

"...my primary interest is monitoring net solar, so the detailed monitoring is just a benefit...." Read more

192 customers mention181 positive11 negative

Customers are satisfied with the value of the motion detector device. They mention that it's well built for the price point, and has saved them money. Some say that the house monitoring system has helped them identify areas that can be improved to save energy.

"Hello!This is an excellent product and quite affordable (Vue Gen2, with 8 sensors in addition to the main two that come by default)...." Read more

"...allows Emporia to be successful and continue to offer this at a reasonable price! (It does require Internet/cloud to work and continue working.)" Read more

"...HardwareVery well built for the price-point, they gave a number of different options for mounting inside or outside the breaker panel..." Read more

"...Overall, I'd definitely recommend this, it's price point over other brands is a bonus...." Read more

140 customers mention102 positive38 negative

Customers like the app that comes with the motion detector. They say it's well-designed, fabulous, and easy to use. Customers also appreciate the clean app that provides immediate data. They mention that the graphics are useful and the view of everything is eye opening.

"...Graphics are quite useful, as they provide a lot of information at different time steps and for each and every circuit, and also in Amps or..." Read more

"...Packaging: Wow - it's beautiful.Documentation: Clear and concise...." Read more

"...The app feels a little dodgy. Sometimes the branch circuits don’t show up unless I fiddle with the time scale...." Read more

"...that could take this monitor from great to perfect: an API for web integration...." Read more

98 customers mention74 positive24 negative

Customers like the accuracy of the motion detector device. They mention that the readings appear to be accurate, and inline with the electric company / meter values. The product is affordable and provides full confidence of the reading. It measures well and helps confirm some of the main consumers. It also matched their inverter data, so all 3 data sets are within a few percent of each other.

"...with a very high degree of accuracy...." Read more

"...The instructions are simple, easy to follow, and accurate. The installation itself is easy and went relatively quickly...." Read more

"...The monitor tags onto individual circuits giving you full confidence of the readings instead of sense trying to estimate power draw...." Read more

"...I had to try many times until they finally connect. The error seems random. Sometimes it just hangs and when I reconnect, it has already set up...." Read more

114 customers mention63 positive51 negative

Customers are mixed about the connectivity of the motion detector device. Some mention that connecting to the app was very quick and seamless, while others say that the connections seem a little loose. Some say that after install the device not connecting to their network and that it is not smart enough to reconnect itself.

"...The update is pretty immediate. If you need to analyze the data, dump it out and use another tool...." Read more

"...In my case, the system did not connect to the cloud initially, and we got concerned about that; but the system connected to the cloud immediately..." Read more

"...So far the app has been very stable and responds quickly to changes in power consumption...." Read more

"...back drawscan be tricky to get connected to wifi / cell etc to get started..." Read more

Not perfect but pretty good
4 Stars
Not perfect but pretty good
I’ve been wanting to be able to monitor my home’s electrical usage for some time now, not just from a standpoint of trying to minimize our electricity bills but also from a standpoint of situational awareness and equipment health status. I’d like to know if my well pump is running more than usual, if my oven has been left on, or if my heat pump is having a harder time starting up than it usually does. And, with a little effort, Emporia lets me set notifications for each of those things.Emporia tells me that the so-called “50A” sensors actually saturate at 75A, and will not be damaged if you go beyond that—they’ll simply fail to report any additional current. It makes sense that they’ve allowed some margin above the nominal value—a 50A breaker might easily let you draw 100A for several seconds without tripping. But that’s good to know if, like me, you have a 60A emergency heat circuit in your air handler that you want to monitor.There are alternatives out there. The most widely known one is probably Sense (also sold as Wiser Energy), which tries to infer based on only sensing your main lines what loads are running. That’s a neat idea, and certainly easier to install because of so many fewer sensors, but I can’t say I really trust their computer to be able to tell the difference between all the various loads in a house just from looking at the combined draw. Plus, Sense costs twice as much as Emporia—and I needed two monitors because I have two completely separate panels in my house (neither is a subpanel of the other), so I was doubly sensitive to price. Another interesting option, though, is called IotaWatt. Its price tag is comparable to Sense, but like the Emporia it relies on individual circuit sensors rather than guesswork (although you only get 14 sensors, including the mains). And the IotaWatt is open source, so you don’t have to rely on a company like Emporia to keep supporting the software ecosystem in the future (on the flip side, though, you’re almost certainly looking at having to fiddle more with the software, and I’d expect it to be a lot harder to contrive a way of looking at the data when you’re not at home on your local network). Another interesting option, although it won’t work for most people, is the Emporia “Vue Utility Connect wireless energy monitor.” If you happen to be in one of the relatively few markets using the appropriate Zigbee-connected smart meter, that cheap little device can tell you your total power draw by simply asking your existing smart meter what’s happening. Not as informative as being able to monitor 16 individual circuits, but not bad for the price tag and ease of installation.I also like how the Emporia ecosystem includes smart plugs to monitor individual devices. I bought some of those also because I wanted to be able to schedule the on and off time of certain equipment, and being able to monitor the power draw of that specific service is handy. You can nest the device to put it under the appropriate circuit in the app.If you’re getting the 16-branch-sensor version like I did, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s going to turn the inside of your breaker box into a rat’s nest. I don’t care for that, but I don’t have any better ideas. The Sense approach of only monitoring the mains is the only way around it that I can see, and as I said I don’t really trust that.The app feels a little dodgy. Sometimes the branch circuits don’t show up unless I fiddle with the time scale. Changing the name of a circuit doesn’t update until you leave the menu, so it can get confusing if you’re renaming several at once. And I ended up remaking all of them because when I finished typing them all in the first time it suggested I take a picture of the inside of my breaker box—and navigating from the Emporia app to my camera seemed to abort the entire setup process. It also failed to update firmware and said it would do it overnight instead. And even after it’s all set up, the high resolution data by the second—which is the only glimpse into how hard a motor is starting—disappears quickly (3 hours), in many cases preventing you from comparing to previous runs of that equipment if you haven’t explicitly gone to the effort of saving it. I would’ve appreciated emporia saving the peak draw from each circuit over the last day, week, and month. So on the whole I’m not feeling like it’s a very polished experience.The one second sample rate frequently misses startup spikes. If you’re really only concerned with total energy usage, that might not matter, but if you have an interest in how hard a motor is starting then that’s a bit disappointing. The one-second data is also only saved for three hours, which isn’t a lot of time. I wish they would save the peak consumption per hour and per day, ideally from a quick enough sample to catch startup peaks reliably.I’d like to be able to set a notification for power draw between two bounds rather than just above or below a threshold. If I want to recognize a hard start of my air handler but not confuse emergency heat with a hard start, I need that kind of functionality.If I’m understanding things correctly, setting the time scale to minute or hour or day shows me how much energy has been consumed so far during this minute or hour or day (etc) even if it just started seconds ago. I don’t see a way to view my usage over the last rolling 24 hours, or 60 minutes, or 60 seconds, which makes it hard to understand how much energy I’m using right now as opposed to one unit of time ago.About a week after installing the sensors, I accidentally hit the breaker to my heat pump while turning on another breaker that was new and quite stiff. The next morning, I got a bunch of notifications that I had configured to alert me when the system was in emergency (resistive) heat mode. I found my error with a quick investigation and remedied it before a lot of energy was wasted.In all, it could be better but I like it.
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DeviMoni
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressed and better than expected
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2022
Material Type: Gen 2Size: whole home monitor with 16 circuit sensorsVerified Purchase
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressed and better than expected
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2022
I like everything about this product and I enjoy using it;
- Very easy to install, see Pics
- Solid WiFi connection
- Good instructions
- App is very responsive, no failures or glitches
- Almost real-time, very impressive
- Flawless CSV downloads
- Alerts work well
Actual benefits;
- able to identify a total of 142W of phantom load = ~$180 CAD/yr for a payback of ~1.5 years
- able to quantify the max hot tub load @ -22C (1,225W) and move the deicing cable from a lighting circuit to the dedicated 120V hot tub circuit, so now it is monitored
- able to demonstrate that our new hyper-efficient gas furnace is consuming an average 62W more than the previous unit, so I have engaged the vendor to determine why
- identified the the top consumers, not sure what I can do about it yet, but at least I know now
Couple of points;
- will need to use 2 CTs on 240V circuits for accurate measurement, e.g. a dryer motor only uses one of the phases, so if you use one CT and double the multiplier the results will be inaccurate. I moved a CT so now both phases are monitored
- I had to mount the unit inside the panel to reach the mains. Two 16 sensor units would not fit inside a typical fully loaded panel, however I could mount them externally by using one unit on the left side and one on the right side. I have 42 active circuits but only 15 are monitored so another unit would significantly reduce if not eliminate the balance of 31%
- I spent an entire day tracing all the circuits so I knew where to best allocate the 16 CTs, and I now have a detailed map
- I download a CSVs weekly and archive them as they are very small ZIP files
- I look forward to future App/backend enhancements
WELL DONE Emporia!!
Update 2022-11-27 - It's been about ~11 months now and this product has worked flawlessly, this has got to be one of the best products I've ever purchased. I expected some glitches and idiosyncrasies but to my surprise, it always works, it is fun to use and quite informative. For example, I didn't expect that our hot tub is by far the largest individual consumer @ ~14% after 11 months or ~$215 CAD/yr and we only use it during the summer although it runs all year. That is really surprising given that it is a small tub connected to a 120V circuit. The "Balance" @ ~22% includes all devices on all circuits that are not monitored.
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Chiara
5.0 out of 5 stars Buon prodotto per chi non ha voglia di ingegnarsi :)
Reviewed in Italy on April 7, 2023
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Clement P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Track Your Energy Usage with Ease - Home Assistant Compatible with some hack
Reviewed in Germany on February 26, 2023
Material Type: Gen 2Size: whole home monitor with 16 circuit sensorsVerified Purchase
RIRODRIG
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo que no se mide, no se mejora
Reviewed in Mexico on January 31, 2021
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lo que no se mide, no se mejora
Reviewed in Mexico on January 31, 2021
Estuve buscando por mucho tiempo una solución para poder medir el consumo de energía de mi casa y poder tomar acciones para reducirlo. Este equipo ha sido una buena solución.

Aunque dice Gen1, realmente es el VAU de Generación 2, desafortunadamente, cuando compré el equipo no estaba disponible el paquete que viene con los sensores de 50 amp, para monitorear los circuitos de la casa, solo viene con los 2 sensores de 200 amp para las 2 fases principales de alimentación (Cuando nuestro contrato incluye 2 hilos), así que busqué los accesorios en la página de Emporia Energy y los compré por separado, ya que en Amazon no los encuentras; el set de 8 sensores cuesta 50 dlls y el envió otros 50 dlls mas gastos de importación. Espero que algún día los tengan disponibles directo de Amazon. Debo decir que la atención y el servicio en la tienda de Emporia Energy fue excelente.

INTALACION
La instalación es relativamente sencilla, si cuentas con conocimientos básicos de electricidad. Los sensores deben colocarse alrededor de los cables, con las flechas "K-->L", apuntando en el sentido de la corriente eléctrica. Los cables de alimentación del equipo son 4; Negro y Rojo van a la corriente o fase, y el azul y blanco van al neutro, dos son para alimentar el equipo y los otros dos para monitorear el voltaje según el instructivo (es una lástima que la App no muestre un monitoreo del voltaje).

El principal reto para mi fue la instalación de la antena, ya que el centro de carga es una caja de metal, es necesario sacar la antena para facilitar la conexión WiFi con el Modem, en mi caso, como mi centro de carga está empotrado, tuve que hacer un orificio por un lado en la pared.

La configuración del equipo es sencilla, debe uno instalar la App para configurarlo.

APP
La aplicación podría ser más amigable y visual, pero nos proporciona información relevante. Para que esta información sea más útil, es necesario instalar los sensores de 50 amp, para poder monitorear el consumo de los circuitos de la casa por separado, y detectar en donde se consume mas corriente. La aplicación hace un balance y muestra el consumo de los circuitos por separado, asignándoles un porcentaje con respecto del consumo total de la vivienda.

Es posible programar alarmas estableciendo un consumo límite para cada circuito, así cuando algo se sale del rango que uno estableció, te llega una alerta.

Aunque creo que habría muchas cosas por mejorar, la App me ha resultado muy útil, ya que me permite exportar los datos, me los envía a mi correo, y los puedo manipular en Excel.

En lo particular, yo compré un paquete de 4 toma corrientes inteligente, con los cuales monitoreo el consumo de ciertos equipos, y puedo programar su apagado y encendido, ya que no es necesario que se queden conectados en la noche consumiendo corriente en stand by. Otra ventaja es que funcionan con Alexa, y puedo pedirle a Alexa que los encienda o los apague.

Apenas tengo un mes con el equipo, pero ya pude establecer ciertos controles y disminuir ciertos consumos innecesarios. "LO QUE NO SE MIDE, NO MEJORA"
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ruper
5.0 out of 5 stars Sencillez de montaje
Reviewed in Spain on January 29, 2023
Material Type: Gen 2Size: whole home monitor with 8 circuit sensorsVerified Purchase