Sense Home Energy Monitor
Sense Labs · Smart Meter
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Index
Generates hypotheses about specific devices in use from detailed wattage and voltage data, sharing information with Meta for ad measurement and targeting and not honoring Do Not Track.
Why this rating
Sense generates hypotheses about specific in-home devices from detailed wattage data and shares information with Meta for ad measurement and targeting, and does not honor Do Not Track — an unusually direct ad-tech pipeline for an energy monitor.
What it is
- Requires a cloud account
- Manufacturer
- Sense Labs
- Category
- Smart Meter
- Model years
- 2016-present
- Market status
- Current
- Companion app
- Sense
The evidence 1
Independent research, regulatory action, lawsuits, breaches and journalism about this device — the "what actually happens" axis. Each links to its source.
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Academic measurement study analyzing network traffic from thousands of IoT devices, revealing extensive undisclosed third-party data flows.
Why it matters here: Northeastern MonIoTr Lab's IoT traffic study is directly relevant to home energy-monitor data flows.
Where your data goes
Third parties this device's data has flowed to, and on what basis. An ended tag means the flow has verifiably stopped — it stays listed for the record.
- Meta (advertising platform)
Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.