Seek to Know More: How Your Smartphone Can Save You Money

Smartphone Can Save You Money

It seems like there's nothing smartphones can't do these days. It can take you where you want to go (mostly), make reservations at your favorite restaurant, and now you can use it to check your home's energy or water.

Thanks to California-based tech company Seek Thermal, thermal imaging, a once expensive technology reserved for the military, police, or fire department, can now be fired with your finger when connected to your smartphone.

Here's how it works: When you connect the Seek Compact Camera (smaller than a credit card reader for a cell phone) to your smartphone, it turns into a thermal camera that can check the temperature in your home.

Download the free app and the camera will start working in seconds and homeowners can easily identify energy loss in their home due to weather, damage or blockhouse insulation, lack of HVAC or poor construction. 

Thermal cameras can also detect water on roofs, walls, doors and window frames. According to one user who tested Seek's camera at home last winter, the results were "incredible". “Within minutes we were able to detect the fire in the house,” he said. "Some of these areas will be easy to fix, while others will be very difficult."

For construction professionals, the Seek Compact PRO is a must-have camera powerful enough to locate hot water pipes under concrete, identify irregularities in roofs, walls, door and window frames, and determine the amount of spilled water. In case.

Do you want to buy a house? This little gem can save you all sorts of surprises in the form of leaks in the basement and after finishing the walls, as well as painted roof leaks from homeowners trying to hide the light problem. To protect your belongings (camera and phone), the Seek Compact is compatible with the OtterBox uniVERSE case system.