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Monster Puts the Power Of Energy Savings In Consumers'
Hands With
New Power Control App For Use With Its New Family Of PowerCenters
-- App Lets You Remotely Monitor and Manage
a Home's Power Consumption; Company Also Debuts Leading-Edge New MPHTUPS 3700CI PowerCenter --
San
Francisco, CA - January 26, 2012 - Monster, a world leader in power
conditioning and surge protection products, is once again changing the game in
advanced power management, offering consumers exciting new ways to save energy
and money with its breakthrough new People
Power Monster Control App, designed to work with the company's
new PRT family of PowerCenters, including the PRT 100M (SRP: $59.95), PRT
100MC (SRP: $69.95) and PRT 300MC
(SRP: $119.95). All three of these new PowerCenters work in conjunction with Monster's
Gateway GTW 100
($59.95), enabling the wireless Power Control App. The all-in-one Monster® PRT 300 MC Kit (SRP: $149.95) features both the
PRT300MC and the GTW 100. Monster's new People
Power Monster Control App offers users of today's most popular smartphones an
elegant and useful wireless communication control solution.
The
new Power App takes the concept of on-the-go power monitoring to a new level,
allowing users to manage the power consumption and settings of their home
appliances from their Smartphone anywhere, anytime. Created by People Power, an
innovative open source management cloud services and application provider, the App provides useful information in a format
that's easy for users to read, and allows users to track valuable power usage
dollars by device over time! Another key App feature is the ability to schedule
control of all connected devices. TVs, set top boxes and other home entertainment
components are especially prone to "vampire" energy drains in which they
consumer power 24 hours a day while in the standby mode or even switched off.
With the Monster App, you can schedule your home entertainment center to turn
off every night, then on again in the morning, off while you're at work, then
on for when you get home - ultimately cutting vampire energy drains by as much
as 50%.
Only Monster Offers Comprehensive Power
Protection and Management Solutions
The debut of the new People Power Monster Control App is a
reflection of the company's clear leadership in comprehensive, advanced power
management. While many companies, for instance, offer surge protection, only
Monster goes beyond surge, with a broad
lineup of power solutions that deliver total power protection, as well
as green power, clean power and now on-the-go power monitoring and control.
The
Head Monster, Noel Lee noted: "Everybody is looking for ways to save energy these
days. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to save when you can't even get a
clear picture of how much energy the devices in your home are using at any
given time. With our new Monster Power
Control App and Network
Communication Gateway, we're giving owners of
any Monster PowerCenter the opportunity to control virtually any electronic device in their
home, from lights and thermostat to audio and video systems, security - even
lawn sprinklers. You could even use it to turn on your hot tub while you're
driving home from work on a cold night!"
Monster Power Solution
for Every Home and Lifestyle
When
used with the new App, each new Monster PRT PowerCenter™
allows consumers to select the energy-saving solution that's ideal for their
home and lifestyle. For example, the PRT 100M and the PowerProtect™
100MC each provide users with a single heavy duty outlet that has 540 joules of
fire proof protection with a $200,000 connected equipment warranty. Users may
plug any Monster PowerCenter into the PRT 100M and monitor all the energy from
their home theater. The PRT 300MC provides
even more energy management potential, with three heavy duty
outlets, 1080 joules of fire proof protection and a warranty of
$300,000 connected equipment, it allows users to monitor three
appliance or home theater components at the same time and turn on or off one of
the outlets whenever necessary. Monster's PRT 300MC Kit (SRP: $149.95)
includes a Gateway that plugs into a home's router, plus a durable FCC-approved
case for rugged use. This allows consumers to add more PowerCenters that can all
be accessed using the elegant Monster PowerControl user interface.
More Advanced New Monster Power
Solutions
At
MacWorld, Monster will also showcase its sophisticated MPHTUPS 3700CI PowerCenter (MSRP $1,499.95), a specially designed
home theater PowerCenter that includes capability for web access, including control
through the Monster PowerControl Web interface. This same cloud based interface
can control the new PRT series of PowerCenters all with one elegant interface
on the web. The MPHTUPS 3700CI features Monster's industry-leading Tri-Mode®
and T2™ power protection, as well as Stage 3 HD Clean Power with PLC, which
rejects noise and interference to maximize performance and reduce wear to
delicate digital equipment. It includes 11 Heavy Duty Outlets as well as two USB
connectors, plus an RS232 Serial Interface. The 3700CI provides
users with maximum AV performance and an innovative way to reduce energy waste,
save money, and help preserve the environment. For additional customer
confidence, the connected Equipment Warranties with the 3700CI is $500,000.
ABOUT MONSTER®
Monster is the world's leading manufacturer of premium
headphones and advanced connectivity
solutions for high-performance home entertainment, audio, home theater, mobile,
computer and gaming, as well as a leading innovator in the field of iPod®,
iPhone® and iPad® accessories and professional audio. The company was founded by Head Monster Noel Lee more than 30 years ago with a
commitment to creating products that literally "make music sound better" and it
has continued to expand and diversify ever since. Under its Monster Cable® brand, the company
leads the way in advanced audio, video, and data connectivity solutions, and
under the Monster Power® brand, it provides high-performance AC power line
conditioning and protection products for audio/video systems. Monster continues
to lead in innovation with over 350 U.S. and international patents and 100
pending, offering more than 6,000 products in over 120 countries worldwide.
iPad, iPhone,
iPod, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPod touch are
trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
ABOUT PEOPLE POWER®
People
Power Company is a leading provider of cloud-based energy management software
to original equipment manufacturers and telecom service providers. The company
delivers technology that enables residential and commercial end-users to see,
understand, and control their energy use. People Power's open source Energy
Service Platform (ESP) transforms complicated real-time information from energy
consuming and generating devices and smart grid data into user friendly energy
management controls for electrical devices that can be displayed and used on
smartphones, tablets, computer screens and TVs. ESP uses behavioral science to
provide insight, choice, and easy controls that maximize customers' lifestyle
or business demands, anywhere, anytime. Based in Palo Alto California, People
Power has received funding from New Cycle Capital, Greener Capital and other
investors.
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