The really cool part, however, is all that you can accomplish remotely. You'll be able to check which devices are on (and turn them off), while a built-in power-consumption tracker lets you know how much juice each appliance is currently sucking up. You can also schedule those devices to go on and off, in case you want to, say, get a fan going to cool things off before you get home. On that note, creator Roger Yiu is also incorporating home-automation modules that make it possible to turn devices off and on based on things like temperature and motion.
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