Vampire Appliances (Understand and SAVE)

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If we search for the word "vampire" on the internet, we will usually get some unwanted results, so we always ignore them. That ignorance results in a hike in our daily power consumption. Furthermore, our monthly expenses have also increased. So, to understand more about the vampire things in day-to-day life, let's rethink our daily activities. Instead of turning off and unplugging our mobile phone charger, we will get out of bed, disconnect the phone from the charger, and continue our last night's conversations and begin postings. And we power off the air conditioner and fan using the remote button or mobile phone apps logically, but we will never physically switch off their power supply. Next, we will put on our geyser, have our bath, and not bother about the power socket switch connected to it. Later that day, we go to the television and start watching the content just using the smart devices' voice commands, while we don't even know where the power switch is. And in the kitchen, we use the induction stove, mixer grinder, toaster, oven, coffee machine, etc., on standby mode and we will never care to power off them after their usage. Furthermore, we will resume our last night's work from the laptop and desktop, which we kept in sleep mode instead of saving the work and shutting them down.

All the above-mentioned appliances are called "Vampire appliances", which means they consume power even though we put them off; i.e., they consume power in standby mode. All of us will think that switching off the appliance using a remote, smart phone, or smart device does not consume power until we realize that they are being kept in standby mode. But significantly, we are switching them off logically but not physically, and because of that, our power bills are skyrocketing. Despite the fact that, with the use of the IoT (Internet of Things), vampire appliances in our homes are increasing. So, we have to think of resting the appliances when not in use, so we can increase their lifespan.

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