Fido VS Sense

Fido

The safest and most minimalistic smart lock

Sense

Sense installs in your home's electrical panel and provides insight into your energy use and home activity through our free iOS/Android apps.

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2019-09-17

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Fido and Sense)

Sense

Home Intelligence

35 35%

Home Intelligence

65% 65

Productivity

33 33%

Productivity

67% 67

Home

100 100%

Home

0% 0

Energy Monitoring

0 0%

Energy Monitoring

100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Sense seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 109 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Fido mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Fido yet. Tracking of Fido recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Sense mentions (109)

Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here?
At Sense we make a home energy monitor that provides real-time appliance-level monitoring using machine learning. Hardware is indeed hard as everyone said it would be! https://sense.com. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
How many amps can I get?
If you want to know exactly how much you are using, when, and approximately how much each device is pulling there are sensors that can help. Eg Https://sense.com/ There are a few others. If you are interested I recommend some googling and read reviews. Source: 10 months ago
Ask HN: Home Energy Monitor Recommendations?
Hi all, Wondering if you have any other recommendations or thoughts on the below. Use case: I have a solar array and want to track in one spot all the energy produced, energy imported, energy exported, and where energy is being used. Both of the following seem to do what I want with some nuances. I am looking at: 1) Sense [0], which identifies energy use patterns of different devices to determine what devices are... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Any suggestions what is happening to my electric bill??
Https://sense.com/ try this guy out. I got one and it seems to work fairly well. I have a light fixture that’s wildly inefficient. Source: 11 months ago
my grandmother's power usage is excessive, (300/mo). she lives in a small house and does not have a hidden weed operation. help!??!
I don’t see it mentioned here, but if you really wanted to know what is using power in her whole house, you could get a “Sense” energy monitor. It gets installed by you inside the main breaker panel and lets you see/learns what uses power and allows you to pinpoint large wasters. A little pricey up front, but could easily pay for itself. Source: 12 months ago