Google Home mini is a smart speaker from Google, which will be able to simplify many tasks in the house, making your life more pleasant and interesting. The smart speaker is set up through the official smartphone application “Google Home”. The settings also offer to enter your home address for more accurate and correct information about the weather forecast, traffic on the roads (important for those who have a car), etc.
The smart speaker is activated through the application on your phone (on the Android system) by a voice request “Ok, Google” or “Hey, Google”. The speaker does not have its own name or names, as other companies have similar ones (Amazon’s Alexa). It has the same name as the search engine and responds to the same name.
Now, when you have an idea of what a Google Home mini is, you’ll know what a smart home is and how much electricity a Google Home mini consumes.
Smart home with a smart speaker
The smart home is the automation of daily routine activities in an apartment or house, a system of control and management of objects connected to it. It is necessary to improve the quality of life and create comfort in the home. A smart home will help to find peace of mind, avoiding perpetual troubles (after all, even the socket can be turned off remotely from a smartphone, but not a simple one, of course, but a smart one). In addition, saving the family budget also refers to the benefits of creating a smart home system, because knowing how much energy a certain device consumes, you can control and adjust its work.
With the smart speaker Google Home mini you can control the smart home: turn on/off the light or heating in the house, control lighting, and other things, if, of course, you equip the device with the right device. In principle, anything you can turn on or off with your finger, you can control using the speaker.
How much electricity does Google Home mini use
Amazon has made the smart speaker category popular with the Echo, a cylindrical speaker that connects wirelessly to the Internet and responds to voice queries that begin with the word “Alexa”. Apple, Google, and many other companies have introduced similar products, as well as miniature versions of them. As of early 2018, there were more than 50 million smart speakers installed nationwide, and together they consumed 783 gigawatt-hours of energy per year (as shown below), which translates to $102 million in annual energy costs.
It is known that the Google Home Mini smart speaker consumes 1.7 watts per hour in on-mode and 1.4 watts per hour in standby mode. Each model uses approximately 12 kilowatts per year on average.
By comparison, the regular Google Home consumes 2.2 watts when turned on and 1.9 watts in standby mode. In a year, the average consumption of each device can reach 17.1 kilowatts.
With this information in mind, you can roughly estimate how much power your device will consume.
