Control Every Circuit
From Your Phone

The SPAN Panel replaces your traditional breaker panel with a 32-circuit smart panel that lets you control and monitor every circuit from your phone. See real-time energy usage per circuit, set schedules, prioritize circuits during battery backup, and receive alerts. Understand what it is, though: it is a full panel swap, so it carries everything a panel upgrade carries — utility disconnect scheduling, permit, inspection, and a day with your power off — on top of the hardware. That is why it sits at the top of this list. The Lumin Smart Panel is the retrofit path: smart modules clamp onto specific circuits alongside your existing panel, so you get load management on the circuits that matter without pulling the panel out of the wall. If your panel needs replacing anyway, SPAN is doing two jobs at once. If your panel is newer, the retrofit usually makes more sense.

Even without a smart panel, whole-home energy monitors give you circuit-level visibility into where your power goes. The Emporia Vue uses CT clamps — current-sensing rings that snap around individual circuit wires — so it reads each circuit directly. More clamps means more precision and more time working inside a live panel to place them. The Sense Energy Monitor takes the other approach: two sensors on your main feeders plus machine learning that identifies devices by their electrical signature. Faster install, looser picture. Both feed phone apps with real-time and historical usage, both are small jobs next to anything else on this page, and most homeowners find 10–15% savings from nothing more than seeing where the waste is.

Lutron Caseta makes existing lights and fans smart without special bulbs — reliable wireless that keeps working when your internet is down, and it scales one switch at a time, so you can start with the three switches you actually touch every day and grow from there. The one thing to check first is whether your switch boxes have a neutral wire; older homes often ran switch loops without one, and that decides which models will work. For larger homes, Control4 gives you professional-grade automation of lighting, shades, HVAC, security, and audio on one platform — scoped by room count and how many subsystems you tie together. Underneath all of it sits smart wiring infrastructure: Cat6 runs, a low-voltage panel, dedicated circuits for hubs. That is the part that decides whether the system is still reliable in year eight, and it is far less work to install while walls are open than after.

Long hot summers across the region mean HVAC is the biggest line on most power bills we look at. Smart energy management — automated schedules, circuit-level monitoring, and load-shedding during peak hours — can cut energy bills by 15–20%. When paired with solar and battery storage, a smart panel like SPAN optimizes how your home generates, stores, and uses power. It's also a major resale value driver — 79% of home buyers actively seek smart home features.