Per-Socket Energy Monitoring: See What Each Device Really Costs

Your Total Bill Hides More Than It Reveals

Every month your electricity bill arrives and you look at one number. Maybe it's up from last month, maybe it's not — but you have no idea why. You unplug the phone charger out of habit, ignore the gaming PC on standby, and move on.

The problem isn't that you don't care. It's that you don't have useful data.

MyOTGO changes that with per-socket energy monitoring: instead of a single household total, you see a live cost figure for every individual device plugged into a MyOTGO smart socket.

How It Works

Each MyOTGO smart socket measures real-time power draw and reports it to your local hub. The hub — not a remote cloud server — processes and stores your consumption history. Open the MyOTGO app and you'll see a breakdown by socket: current wattage, today's estimated cost, this month's running total, and a 30-day trend.

Because everything runs locally, your energy data stays in your home. There's no usage profile being built on a vendor server, and readings are available instantly even if your internet connection is down.

What People Actually Find

A few patterns show up consistently when people start monitoring at socket level:

• Standby vampires — older televisions, audio receivers, and game consoles draw 5–20 W even when "off." A 15 W standby load adds up meaningfully over a year.
• The home-office surprise — a desktop PC left on overnight can consume more electricity than an efficient fridge running all day.
• Heating elements — plug-in heaters and kettles are obvious high-draw devices, but the real cost is the space heater left on all afternoon, not the two-minute kettle boil.

Seeing a specific number — not a guess — is what actually changes behavior.

Automating Around the Data

Once you know which sockets are expensive, MyOTGO lets you act on that knowledge directly. You can set schedules to cut power to high-standby devices overnight, create automation rules that turn sockets off when the hub detects no motion in a room for a set period, or simply tap off a socket from the app without leaving the sofa.

The energy data and the control live in the same app. The loop from insight to action is short.

Local-First Means Your Data Is Yours

Energy consumption data is surprisingly personal — it reveals when you sleep, when you leave the house, and which appliances you use. MyOTGO processes and stores this on your hub by default. You can export it in standard formats for your own analysis, but it doesn't flow to our servers unless you choose otherwise.

Local processing also means there's no subscription fee required just to access your own usage history.

Start Seeing the Real Numbers

If you're curious what your home actually costs at the device level, plug a MyOTGO smart socket into your biggest suspects and give it a week. The numbers are often surprising — and once you've seen them, the guessing stops.

Explore the full MyOTGO platform at myotgo.com.