How Much Power and Bandwidth a Nest Camera Actually Uses
Electricity is not the thing to worry about. Bandwidth might be. A…
Most articles about smart home energy use guess. This section works from published figures and says where they come from.
1 articles
The number people worry about is rarely the right one
Electricity is almost never the issue with a smart device: a camera runs on single-digit watts and costs a few dollars a year. Bandwidth is where the real cost sits, and it varies by an order of magnitude depending on one setting.