Qinergy Review, electricity screened smart health innovation

The electricity bills are always at the origin of grimaces, see, sometimes, of shock … In winter, the bottom heating, the ovens and electric plates turning at full speed and the hot showers do not help anything … However, as long as no invoice does come and put our finger on our excesses, we are chasing them. That’s all Qinergy’s interest.

Qinergy is a company located in Montpellier that offers you to see, understand and control your energy consumption in real time and over the long term.

We were lucky to be able to Review Qinergy and check its real impact on our electricity consumption.

Introducing Qinergy

Mark : Qinergy

Category: electricity consumption monitoring

Release date : already available on the internet

Price: the material is made available free of charge, however you must subscribe at the price of 2.90 or 4.90 euros per month, depending on the desired service, without obligation -> I buy on Qinergy.

Review performed on: LG Smartphone – Android 4.4.2 and PC

The installation of Qinergy

The opening of packages would have a certain tendency to worry:

• a rectangular case
• a captor
• a round case
• Cables
• installation instructions

The instructions are very clear, after two readings, it emerged that she only asked to put the sensor where it flashes, install next to the rectangular box. It then remains only to connect the round box to the contact and to your box. Nothing too complicated, you say.

It will have taken everything and for everything big quarter of an hour to do all of this insofar as doubts still remain as to the connections to be made when one is refractory to cables …

Only problem of the notice which may make it question more than one: among all diodes which should light up on the round case, one flashes only because of a brief light every 20 seconds, if we don't know, we look for it and we worry.

Advantage, however, if you call the customer service to make sure it works, he doesn’t always respond immediately but calls back in a reasonable delay.

The Qinergy app

We must start with the set up by supplying numerous elements on your electrical contract, it is better to have a invoice at your fingertips to answer questions.

You will also need to inform the equipment which you have at your health home: fridge, heating, dryer, etc.

The application is otherwise in the form of a dashboard where we graphically see its consumption in real time, it is possible to change the tab to take a look at its historical, his goal or the rconsumption breakdown according to your electrical devices.

Under its consumption graph which is not necessarily meaningful, at the time of writing, for example, the consumption is 240 Watt … nothing very significant. For this reason, below, the total for the day is indicated, it specifies:

• consumption since the first hour this morning
• the cost in real time since the start of the day
• theecological impact which it represents in gCO2

Right next to it, a assessment of the last seven days is available, it allows daily consumption to be seen in terms of kWh but also in euros. The accompanying graphic highlights the days when we used the most.

Very intuitive, this application has only one small flat, to be able to view his distribution of consumption, we have to wait for an analysis over several days, the request that we have made dates back more than a week and there is no news to report.

The consequences of using Qinergy

For the rest, very quickly, habits are developing and as soon as consumption increases on the graph, the reflex to turn your head to find out the reason is taken.

For your devoted editor, this will have enabled her to realize that her neighbors were happily using her lighting in front of her door by going to find the switch, however well hidden in her mailbox, an awareness that will have saved her one, without a doubt, a big expense since the light could stay on for hours.

Aside from this anecdote, the fact of seeing the consumption visually each time a light is turned on makes it possible to switch them off much faster when they are no longer needed.

It’s also an opportunity to Review all his electrical devices and different types of lighting in order to know if it is more profitable to light a particular lamp, to heat its water at the plate or via the kettle. Finally, in view of the passing price, the heating is immediately reduced.

By contacting customer service, we also learn that Qinergy has allowed a customer to notice that his meter was completely faulty, it was later changed by the electricity supply company. Another it will be seen, by cutting everything at his health home and doing the Review, that his neighbors were smart health connected to his meter.

Our feeling

A price of 2.90 euros or 4.90 euros per month depending on whether or not you want a breakdown of your energy-using devices, personalized advice and alerts in the event of excessive consumption.

No subscription but you will have to send a registered letter with termination AR and return the product once you consider you no longer need it.

What we like:

> ease of handling

> the intuitive application which allows you to quickly see how to reduce your consumption.

What we don't like:

> no application on the smartphone, this is a real regret in the sense that viewing on the phone is more difficult and it is therefore not easy to see if in his absence, his partner has decided to transform his apartment in Versailles overheated or not …

> difficult viewing on the Smartphone: perhaps it is the phone of your devoted editor, but it is seriously rowing once the site is launched… at first glance, however, the viewing on smartphone has been considered since everything appears in succession and not side by side, like it is the case on the computer. and a long wait for a personalized assessment

Too bad that this type of smart health smart health connected object is little known and that it requires a monthly subscription which will slow it down in its expansion on the market …

Over the 5 weeks of testing, real awareness of its consumption. A change in habits, in particular the use of off-peak hours to carry out the machines and ironing, lighting with a mood lamp rather than a wall lamp for meals, etc. who has a real impact on the electric bill… On average, your dedicated editor will have won from 50 cents to one euro per day is, on the year, a savings of 175 to 365 euros.