Sense energy monitor review: Your patience will be rewarded with great insight into your home's electricity use

Sense is a bright-orange box that sits in your electrical breaker box and gives in-depth insight into your home's entire power usage. The whole system is quite clever and--thankfully--free of any monthly charges. But it learns very slowly, and that's likely to frustrate you. Sense works by electromagnetically listening to the power flowing along the two hot wires that run from your electric meter to your breakers. By measuring the current flow a million times each second, Sense can observe chang...