SPAN is a smart electrical panel for your home

SPAN is a unique smart home electrical panel that replaces the traditional fuse box in your home. It tracks energy consumption and usage to provide real-time insights, allowing you to quantify your family’s needs and habits and maximize solar efficiency.

I often say utilities are a scam and should not be for profit businesses. Why a scam? Because major utility and energy companies seem to make up numbers and charge whatever the hell they want. Why not a for profit? Because we need utilities, and it’s not like we can survive without them. But when it comes to grid power, short of going off grid entirely, there’s really no way to track the honesty or usage in viable ways. Yeah, you can see how much energy you’re using on your bill, and physical meters offer a pseudo countdown, but that’s hardly thorough. If you have a solar system, forget about accurate reporting.

SPAN is a smart electrical panel that replaces your home’s main fuse box, and it’s equipped with powerful data tracking and smart monitoring features. That gives you more insight into your energy usage in several related areas, so you can make more informed decisions.

For example, it can deliver valuable energy-saving insights to help you lower your bill by highlighting devices in your home that are using more power. But it also works with EVs to charge the battery when energy rates are cheapest. You can control when your EV charges, turn circuits on or off as needed, change what rooms and appliances receive power during an outage, and much more. Imagine having full, nuanced control of your energy breakers. And that’s the thing, it works with standard circuit breakers but also offers remote access. You can control energy usage from within the SPAN app or even schedule events through Alexa using voice commands.

It also connects to battery storage systems like Tesla Powerwall for power backup and better efficiency.

What’s the point of a smart electrical panel?

It’s crazy to think about, but the traditional circuit breaker and fuse boxes in our homes are pretty dumb. They’re just an assortment of wires and switches. When a breaker trips, we need to go out to the box and physically reset it. If one fails, we need to swap it out. While you can’t really change the latter, there is a way to make it all smarter and more convenient. SPAN swaps out those old panels for something more modern. It’s compatible with battery backup solutions, solar systems, EV charging devices, and much more.

Most importantly, it gives you better oversight and control over your entire home’s energy profile. Track what devices are using the most energy, which rooms or home areas stay powered during an outage, charge your EV when traditional power is at its cheapest, and save lots of money from all of these activities. Best of all, you get accurate, real-time insights into your energy consumption patterns, which is something your utility provider will never offer.

It also futureproofs your home and makes renewable energy work for you, whether that’s your solar system or backup energy during outages.