However, this paints a picture of how little
electricity your smart bulbs use and how little you pay to use them over the years.
Not exact matches
You can boost those savings even more by investing in
smart LED
bulbs, which can be dimmed to use less
electricity and even controlled remotely in case you forget to turn them off.
Best Feature: This
smart LED
bulb by LIFX is a great money saver as it saves
electricity by 20 - 30 percent for you.
Using my trusty Kill A Watt
electricity usage monitor, I tested a Philips Hue White
smart bulb (which uses Zigbee), a Eufy Lumos Wi - Fi
smart bulb, and a GoControl Z - Wave
smart bulb to see how much
electricity each type of
bulb pulled even when I had the light turned off.
We did a little bit of experimenting to find out, but spoiler alert: it's really not that much
electricity at all, depending on which
smart bulbs you use.
So,
smart bulbs are still using up some
electricity even when the light is technically turned off.
All
smart lights are LEDs, which consume far less
electricity than incandescent and even fluorescent
bulbs.