Discontinued

Sense Home Energy Monitor

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Sense · Energy, Solar & EV

Verified 2026-08-02 across four first-party Sense surfaces (two consumer-blog posts, the consumer product page and a product FAQ page) plus Home Assistant's core integration documentation, the CSA-IoT certified-products database and CPSC's recall API. ⚠ ONE CORRECTION TO OUR OWN PLANNING, recorded rather than quietly absorbed: the December 31, 2025 sales-end date was attributed to the post 'A note to our Sense monitor community'. That post carries the pivot and the existing-owner support quote but NO date. The date is first-party and it is real — it is in a different Sense post, 'Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense' — so the claim reproduced while the citation did not, and this record cites the post that actually contains the sentence. ⚠ A second method caution: both registry checks for this brand returned SUBSTRING noise rather than clean results, because 'Sense' is a short common token — the CSA search returned ten certificates belonging to other companies and the CPSC query returned Hisense and SODA SENSE. Neither was read as a hit; the returned records were read rather than counted. This product is discontinued, and the date is the manufacturer's own: Sense said it would 'stop selling the Sense Monitor by December 31, 2025'. Its site now matches — the store URL 404s, the navigation has no store, and the consumer page offers no way to buy anything, only a check of whether your utility has installed a compatible smart meter. So the first thing to understand is that any listing you find is a reseller's inventory, not a manufacturer still in this business. Second, and much more positively than most discontinuations in this catalogue: existing owners were not abandoned, and the commitment is specific rather than a vague reassurance. Sense wrote 'nothing changes. Your device, your data, your support, all of it continues', and enumerated app and firmware updates, ongoing device detection improvements, energy data access, security patches and dedicated customer support. Independent corroboration that the service really is running: Home Assistant's official integration still works, and it is cloud-polling, so it could not. Third, the limit on that: no end date is attached to any of those commitments, so they describe today. A company that has left a market has fewer reasons each year to keep a legacy service running, and this device does nothing useful without one — the appliance-identification that made it worth buying happens on Sense's servers, and there is no local path. Fourth, one first-hand observation recorded because it is the class of signal that precedes a service ending: dev.sense.com was serving an expired TLS certificate on 2026-08-02. That is a developer subdomain, and sense.com, the blog and the app pages were all fine the same day, so it is not evidence that consumer support is degrading. It is a reason to keep checking. Fifth, on platforms, the useful summary is that one thing is documented well and everything else is not documented at all. The Alexa skill is real and quoted first-party, with genuinely good questions — 'ask Sense if my dryer is done', 'ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging' — but it is US-only in Sense's own words, and every command is the 'ask Sense' question form rather than something Alexa controls. Google, Apple and SmartThings have nothing first-party at all, which on a discontinued product means the pages that might have said so are gone rather than that the answer is no. Finally, what this record cannot tell you: there is no specification table here — no model number, no sampling rate, no accuracy figure — because the product pages carrying one have been removed. That is a limitation of researching a withdrawn product honestly, and inventing the numbers would be worse.

Exactly which product this is

Model number: Not established
Generation: Not established
Region this page covers: US
Also sold or listed as: Sense Home Energy Monitor · Sense Monitor · Sense Energy Monitor

“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.

Compatibility

Ecosystem	Support	The catch
Apple Home	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[7]	Unknown. No Sense surface read names Apple, HomeKit or Siri, and no Apple-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none because Sense has not said the platform is unsupported — the pages that would have carried a platform list are the consumer product pages, and those are gone now that the company sells nothing. That is a real limitation on this cell and it is stated rather than hidden: on a discontinued product, silence can mean 'never supported' or 'the page that said so has been taken down', and this catalogue cannot tell the difference from here. There is no Matter route either: no certificate attributable to this company was found in the CSA-IoT database, and Apple Home controls no energy device class in any case — EnergyKit is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control or read a monitor, and this catalogue never conflates the two.
Amazon Alexa	PartialPartial support — see the catch^[4]	Real, first-party, and shaped exactly like the other good voice integration in this category. Sense's own post documents a skill with genuinely useful questions — 'Alexa, ask Sense how much electricity I'm using.', 'Alexa, ask Sense how much solar I'm generating.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my dryer is done.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging.', 'Alexa, ask Sense when my garage door closed.' Those last three are the product's disaggregation showing off: it is answering about individual appliances it identified from the mains, which nothing else in this subcategory can do by voice. Partial rather than full for two checkable reasons. First, every documented command uses the 'Alexa, ask Sense…' form — the question-and-answer skill pattern rather than the direct-device pattern — so the monitor is reachable through Alexa without being a device Alexa controls, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Second, Sense states a hard regional limit in its own words: 'The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!' Setup is account-linking through the Alexa app or Amazon's skills page. It runs entirely through Sense's cloud. ⚠ And the standing caveat on this whole record applies: this documentation predates the consumer exit, so it describes a skill that existed — whether it is still being maintained is not something any Sense surface currently states.
Google Home	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[4]	Unknown, and deliberately so despite it being easy to assume otherwise. Sense's own Alexa post mentions integrations with Philips Hue and with Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs but says nothing about Google, and no Sense-owned page documenting a Google Assistant integration was located. References to one exist on Sense's community forum — but a forum post is a user writing, not the vendor publishing, and this catalogue does not turn community discussion into a compatibility claim. So the honest position is that Google support may well exist and is not documented anywhere we can cite. The contrast with the Alexa cell on this same record is the point: Alexa has a first-party post with quoted commands and a stated regional limit, and it earns partial; Google has nothing first-party, and it earns unknown.
SmartThings	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[7]	Unknown. Sense names SmartThings nowhere on any surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. As with the Apple cell, the discontinuation weakens what this silence can tell you — the product pages that would have carried a platform list no longer exist — so this is recorded as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of absence. No Matter fallback exists: no certificate attributable to this company was found.
Home Assistant	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[5]	The strongest platform cell on this record, and — usefully for anyone weighing a second-hand purchase — independent evidence that Sense's service is genuinely still running. Home Assistant ships an official core `sense` integration, introduced all the way back in 0.82, IoT class Cloud Polling, and the entity list is substantial: binary sensors for individual device power states, active sensors updated every 60 seconds giving current power usage and production in watts, and trend sensors updated every 5 minutes giving kWh across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales, including usage, production, grid import and export, and solar percentages. The binary sensors are the interesting part, because they are the disaggregation reaching Home Assistant — you get an entity per appliance Sense has learned to recognise, which is a capability nothing else in this subcategory offers to any platform. Recorded full on the strength of that enumerated list. Two limits, both real. It is cloud polling, so it stops when Sense's service does or when your internet does, and on a product whose manufacturer has left the consumer market that is the dependency to think hardest about. And Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level, naming a Sense meter and account rather than a specific model — though with a single consumer product line that is a narrower gap than it usually is.

? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.

Protocols: WIFI^[7][10]

Needs before it works: No hub — the monitor installs in the electrical panel, joins your Wi-Fi and reports to Sense's service, with nothing to buy in between. What matters more than the hub answer on a discontinued product is what the monitor depends on, and the answer is a company: everything this device does useful — the disaggregation that identifies individual appliances from the mains signal, the history, the app — happens in Sense's cloud. There is no documented local path. So the practical dependency is not hardware you might need to replace, it is a service that has to keep running, and the company operating it has changed business model.^[9]

What it can do^[4][5]

You can tell it to

None documented by the vendor

It reports

Energy reading

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No subscription, plan or fee appears on any Sense surface read, and existing owners are told their access continues — the 'Looking Ahead' post names energy data access among the things that carry on for monitor owners. Recorded as 'none' on that basis, with coreFunctionWithoutPlan 'unknown' rather than 'full', because that is an absence of any mention of paid tiers plus a continuation commitment, not a vendor statement that everything is and remains included. An account is mandatory: the app is the only interface, and the device's whole function runs through Sense's service. ⚠ One thing worth stating plainly on a discontinued product: no end date accompanies the support commitments, so 'no subscription' describes the arrangement today and carries no promise about what a company that has left this market does with a legacy service in future.

Maintenance reality^[5]

Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
The monitor installs inside the electrical panel and clamps onto the mains, which is why installEffort is pro-recommended: Sense's own FAQ material addresses panel compatibility, Wi-Fi requirements and solar configurations, all of which are questions an electrician answers. cloudDependent is true and it is more consequential here than on most records, because the thing that made this product distinctive is a cloud function rather than a measurement: Sense identifies individual appliances from the mains waveform, and that disaggregation runs on Sense's servers. A local reading of total household power is not what people bought this for. ⚠ NO SPECIFICATIONS ARE PUBLISHED ON THIS RECORD — no model number, no sampling rate, no accuracy figure, no dimensions — and that is a consequence of the discontinuation rather than an oversight: the product pages that would have carried a specification table are gone from sense.com, which now sells nothing. What remains readable is the FAQ material, the company's announcements and the counterparty integration. This record therefore documents the product's LIFECYCLE and PLATFORM position accurately and does not pretend to a spec sheet it could not source.
Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Sense publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

Who it's for

Nobody should buy this new, because it is not sold new. This record exists for two other people. The first is an existing owner wondering whether to keep it, and for them the answer is genuinely reassuring: Sense committed in writing to app and firmware updates, continued device detection improvements, data access, security patches and support, the appliance-level detection still works, and Home Assistant's official integration is live — so there is no reason to rip it out today, and the thing to watch is whether those commitments hold rather than whether the hardware fails. The second is someone considering a second-hand unit, and for them the calculation is a bet on a company's goodwill: everything valuable about this device runs in a cloud operated by a business that has moved to selling through utilities instead, with no local fallback and no stated end date for legacy support. A working device today, an unknowable one in three years, and no way to hedge. Anyone who wants whole-home monitoring they will still control in a decade should look at a local-first product instead — the Shelly meter in this same subcategory needs no cloud connection at all, though it measures a single circuit rather than identifying appliances. And anyone whose utility has deployed a compatible smart meter should read Sense's own consumer page first, because in that case the software may be available free without any hardware purchase at all — which is precisely what the company pivoted to do.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

[1] Sense, 'Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense' (consumer blog) — vendor-announcement research, verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Market availability, Service status
[2] Sense, 'A note to our Sense monitor community' (consumer blog) — vendor-announcement research, verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Service status
[3] Sense, consumer site (homepage navigation, /store/ and /homes/) — vendor-page research (purchase-state check across three surfaces), verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Price, Market availability
[4] Sense, 'Alexa, Ask Sense…' (consumer blog) — vendor-announcement research, verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Capabilities, Google Home compatibility
[5] Home Assistant, Sense integration documentation — counterparty documentation, verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Capabilities, Service status, Maintenance
[6] First-hand fetch observation, dev.sense.com — TLS certificate expired, 2026-08-02; contrasted against sense.com, sense.com/homes/ and two consumer-blog posts all serving normally the same day — first-hand infrastructure observation, verified 2026-08-02
[7] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — registry research (control-tested; substring noise identified and excluded), verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[8] US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall REST service — regulator-API research with control (substring noise identified and excluded), verified 2026-08-02
Backs: Service status
[9] Sense consumer blog, "Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense", by Mike Phillips, CEO and co-founder — "We'll stop selling the Sense Monitor by December 31, 2025." and "But, don't worry we are continuing to support and improve the Sense app and will continue to support existing Sense monitors." The post also states what replaces it: "We are now embedding Sense directly into the next generation of smart meters and rolling out through utility partners across the country". — BQ-107 re-verification (first-party re-read), verified 2026-08-21
Backs: Research status, Required hub or bridge, Market availability
[10] Matter Distributed Compliance Ledger, vendor registry (read 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs). Sense does not appear under any name tried: 'sense' — which DOES return Hisense, Sensereo, Sense Say Technology, X-Sense Innovations and Ecosense, none of them this company. The DCL's vendor registry was enumerated to EXHAUSTION on 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: substring queries were unioned until the distinct-VID count reached 833, which is the record count the tool itself reports scanning per query (the union of a/e/i/o/u/y reached 832; the last holdout was 'SLV GmbH', a vowel-free name, recovered by adding l/s/t). Every vendor in the ledger was therefore inspected, not searched for. — registry-lookup (DCL enumeration by vendor ID, with known-positive control), verified 2026-08-22
Backs: Protocols

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