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| Renewable Energy UK |
| And another review we think is worth a look is featured on the website of www.reuk.co.uk:
‘We trialled Eco-Eye Elite and Eco-Eye Mini for one month, and so what follows are the results of our extensive research and testing…
Overall Conclusions
Eco-Eye is an excellent product. It has the build quality of OWL (formerly known as Electrisave), more history functions than Efergy, and uses its batteries efficiently. It is also very easy to install, initialise, and use, and as explained below is well priced. With the integration with Wi-Eye, it will be able to transfer all collected data directly to a computer in realtime - a feature which will be of great interest to many customers.’
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| Here’s what electricity-monitor.com said about Eco-eye: |
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The latest wireless energy monitor, manufactured in the UK, is packed with features…
Like most wireless energy monitors, Eco-eye displays your estimated current household electricity consumption in Kilowatts and pence per hour.
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| In addition to these figures, with the simple press of a button, Eco-Eye can translate that same information into a projected total cost by day, week, month and year. Eco-eye can also display your greenhouse gas emissions in the same form, and has a built-in memory function which enables you to view historical usage and costs over a period of up to 32 months.
Channel selection
One of the issues we've experienced here while evaluating many different brands of wireless electricity monitors is that when two monitors of the same type are situated close to each other it can be quite difficult to determine if the display unit is picking up signals from the correct transmitter. This may present a problem in modern, high density housing where meters are often in external boxes and situated quite close to each other. In a feature unique to the Eco-Eye, both the transmitter and receiver can be set to operate on any of 30 selectable channels to avoid possible interference.’
For more information visit the website: www.electricity-monitor.com
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| Eco-eye Elite has been given top marks by Money Supermarket.com
Read this report by Paul Schofield, Head of Utilities. Published 20 June 2008.
www.moneysupermarket.com/c/articles/utilities/prepare-for-higher-energy-prices/
Smart ways to save money on energy bills
As well as finding the best product, moneysupermarket.com wanted to find a new way to help you become more energy conscious. As a result, we set up a sample group to test a range of 'home energy monitors'.
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| The sample monitors are designed to show users how much energy they are using in kWh or £s.
How do they work?
Simply clip the wireless sensor on to your electricity meter (no electrician required!), put the home energy monitor somewhere you can easily see it and watch as it counts up the power you are using in real time. It even tells you the associated cost.
How do they compare? See right.
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| Product |
Efergy Energy Saving Meter |
OWL Wireless Energy Monitor |
Eco-Eye Elite |
Watson Home Energy Monitor |
| Set-Up |
8/10 |
7/10 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
| Looks |
7/10 |
8/10 |
9/10 |
10/10 |
| Practicality |
6/10 |
8/10 |
9/10 |
8/10 |
| Value |
4/10 |
6/10 |
9/10 |
7/10 |
| Overall |
6/10 |
7/10 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
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| What Blenheim House Reviews say about Eco-Eye |
| "After a month the savings seem to be an average of around 4,000 watts each day, or about £180 a year.
The Eco-Elite now sits near our TV thus allowing easy monitoring of our electricity consumption, especially in the evening when usage is highest.
Of interest to computer users, Eco-Eye are soon to release Wi-Eye a receiver that plugs into a USB port and feeds the data from the sensor/transmitter into Eco-Eyes’ own software.
Eco Eye are launching a 3 phase version of the products in August which will have the ability of measuring not only single or 3 phase, but also up to 3 feeds from a single supply - ie. if you were wanting to measure a sum total of power used on 3 different areas in a property for instance.
The one question I have been asked by friends “is the Eco-Eye Elite worth £50”. Well the answer is YES, in just a few short weeks I have made changes that will save us around £180 a year and I am sure with some fine tuning an additional £100 saving a year can be made. All thanks to the user friendly Eco-Eye range of products".
See www.bhreviews.co.uk/Hardware/eco_eye.htm
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| Eco-eye products given "Best Buy" status by Ethical Consumer Magazine |
| See table below for detailed analysis - for more information visit www.ethicalconsumer.org |
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| Centre for Sustainable Energy Report to the Energy Saving Trust |
| Authors: Will Anderson and Vicki White August 2009 |
The study recruited a total of 38 participants to five demographically differentiated focus groups, each of whom trialed the various energy monitors currently available on the market. Eco-eye Elite was the focus and this is what was reported.
Feedback on Eco-eye Elite (Eco-eye Mini was not trialed)
“The user felt it was fool-proof … like the simplicity of it …easy to use.”
“Liked the single button to switch display options…I used every mode on it; looked at all of it”
Pros
Simple and easy to use
Very clear display
One button to scroll through display
Had all the information required
Cons
Too big
Eco-eye comment:
“That’s why we also make Eco-eye Mini so we can give the customer a choice!”
Overall Score : 8/10
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Telephone: 01903 851910 Email: info@eco-eye.com
Eco-eye Limited, The Modern Moulds Business Centre, 2-3 Commerce Way, Lancing, West Sussex BN15 8TA |
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