Is smart home power hungry? With the use of sweeping robots and smart refrigerators, how much more electricity is paid?

In fact, the power consumption of smart homes is not as much as everyone thinks.

The core of smart furniture is the system, the system through wired circuits, radio frequency, WI-FIdeng and other ways to connect all the smart appliances in the home. The power of the vast majority of smart home system control boxes on the market is generally between 0.5-1 watt, even if it is 24 hours non-stop, it only needs less than 10 yuan of electricity for a year, and the power consumption is very small.

However, the power consumption of the system does not include third-party smart devices, and the power consumption of different smart appliances is also different.

Smart refrigerator provides more functions, such as automatic refrigerator mode switching, always let the food maintain the best storage state, users through mobile phones, computers, at any time to understand the number of food in the refrigerator, freshness and quality information, but also to provide users with healthy recipes and nutritional taboos, remind users to supplement food regularly. In order to achieve these functions, the smart refrigerator is equipped with a large number of sensors, more advanced temperature control systems and large-area LCD screens in the structure, so the power consumption is higher than that of ordinary refrigerators, according to the general family usage, the average annual cost is 40-80 yuan more than ordinary refrigerators.

The intelligent sweeping robot is small, flexible and occupies a small footprint, which can easily clean places that are usually difficult to clean. At present, most brands of intelligent sweeping robots generally have only 35-50 watts of power, calculated by 40 minutes of use per day, and the annual electricity bill is less than 10 yuan.

Intelligent air conditioning generally exists in the form of central air conditioning, which will adjust the indoor temperature in advance according to the owner's room and living habits, so the use time is 5-10 minutes more than ordinary air conditioning, and the average annual cost is about 150-250 yuan more than ordinary air conditioning.

The intelligent lighting system will automatically turn on or off as the owner moves in the house, which is more economical than not turning off the lights. However, considering the additional power consumption of the intelligent induction system, smart lighting is not much different from the ordinary lighting we usually use. (Wang Xu)

Source: State Grid Beijing Electric Power