Home Energy Monitoring System by W Systems Design

Making Energy Saving Easy

The Home Energy Monitoring System (HEMS) helps people save money by understanding their energy usage.

HEMS is more than just another electronic device. With 24/7 monitoring, actionable reports, and automatic
enrollment in all eligible utility savings programs, HEMS is designed to save money from the minute it is set up.

Easy to Use

From the HEMS’ simple step-by-step installation to it’s easy to use app, HEMS makes your home’s electrical bill
and energy footprint easy to understand. The simple step-by-step installation process allows for a quick start to
savings. HEMS’ automated account setup allows for opting-in to all available money-saving programs through local
utility providers, free of charge. Easy-to-read reports can put energy usage into terms everyone can understand.

Futureproof

HEMS was designed with longevity in mind. Built to meet all industry-leading CHIP standards, it is able to be
expanded upon, and will not need to be replaced. HEMS and all of its optional add-ons have been built to meet all
CHIP standards, and believe that all smart home devices should be secure, reliable, and seamless to use. Thanks to
proprietary algorithms and machine learning, the HEMS is built to continuously improve itself, and will not require
owners to buy new models in the future to continue working.

Saves Money

Customizable Reports allow HEMS to identify areas where money saving is easiest. HEMS can explain the times of
day local utility companies are charging more to use the same amount of energy, and give suggestions to save.
Customers can compare their usage to averages in the area, shedding light on potentially unknown areas of savings.
HEMS allows for daily, weekly, and monthly energy goals to be set, and lets customers watch their progress in real-
time. This is more helpful now than ever before, as 2020 has seen an average electricity usage increase of 10% or
more per month due to an increased amount of time being spent at home (Leonhardt, 2020).

Improves Home Safety

By identifying the appliances in a home, and showing which are using more energy than they should, HEMS can
point out which are running longer cycles than they should, which are about to breakdown, and which are running in
an unsafe manner.

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HEMS provides 24/7 real-time monitoring of electrical consumption at both the whole-home and device level.
Using machine learning, the HEMS can provide detailed information about the amount of electricity a home is using
at any given second, as well as which appliances are using the energy. It has been shown that by simply monitoring
a home’s energy consumption a person is able to save up to 18% off of their average monthly Electric bill (Ford,
2017).

W System Design’s reports have been made to provide the most insight into your energy footprint as possible,
without requiring any advanced knowledge or training.

Custom Reports

Customers are able to customize the frequency and contents of their reports. Available reports include total usage for
the period, daily usage averages compared to previous weeks/months, appliance health report to identify devices that
are not working correctly, list of suggested money-saving changes, and an outline of the actual cost of your
appliances in the period (such as how much money was spent cleaning dishes in the dishwasher, what were the
laundry costs for the week, how much money did the desktop computer that is only used once a week use by simply
being plugged in).

To ensure all of W Systems Design’s W Systems Design

systems are futureproof, all devices are
W Systems Design is a full-service Electrical Engineering firm in St.
manufactured and analyzed against industry-
leading Project Connected Home over IP Louis, MO who take pride in providing only the best products and
(CHIP) standards. The Working Group, who services to their customers.
manage CHIP, is currently working with
All W Systems Design systems include monthly scheduled
industry leaders including Google, Amazon,
maintenance for an entire year, free of charge. Customers may choose
Apple, and the Zigbee Alliance to promote
and continue development of royalty-free
either in-home or remote meetings. Over that first year, technicians

connectivity standards to increase product
compatibility across brands, with security as
a fundamental rule
(https://www.connectedhomeip.com/). By
ensuring these standards are met, HEMS is
able to guarantee its longevity.
will check system performance, and answer questions. The majority of
the scheduled meetings will be spent with a technician reviewing the
home’s monthly reports. This allows for the customer to be confident
their home is working optimally. Long-term options are also offered
by W Systems Design for customers who wish to have their systems
maintained for them.

Ford, Rebecca. Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management, Building and Environment, Volume 123, 2017,
Pages 543-554, ISSN 0360-1323, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.07.020.

https://www.connectedhomeip.com/, accessed 10/8/2020.

Leonhardt, M. (2020, July 1). Utility bills will likely increase by 10% on average in big cities this summer. CNBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/utility-bills-may-increase-by-10-percent-on-average-in-big-cities-this-summer.html