Despite the fact that we rely on them to power our appliances, devices, homes, and ultimately our lives, we don’t give them much thought. That lack of attention prevented the outlet from changing since its introduction by Harvey Hubbell in 1903. The problem is, every other device at every other point in our electrical grid, along with everything that it powers, has changed.

As a result of the outlet remaining largely unchanged, we currently have no solutions to energy waste, power management, automation, or building analytics that aren’t disruptive, inconvenient, expensive, or simply ineffective.