They may be using something like Sift for security checking and something of yours was flagged. Source: over 1 year ago

But sorry to break it to you, this has been done at a really large scale already although most consumers are not aware. One big player here is https://sift.com/ Almost every major retailer uses their service exactly for the reasons you mention. Source: almost 3 years ago

Reddit, for one. A pretty big list on their homepage. Source: almost 3 years ago

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 / 11 months ago

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: 11 months ago

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 / 11 months ago

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: about 1 year ago

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: about 1 year ago