Patent ID: 8725833

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a sensor network associated with an account, data describing usage of one or more items at a location associated with the sensor network and an account identifier associated with the account; storing, in a storage device, the data describing usage of the one or more items associated with the location associated with the sensor network and the account identifier; receiving, from a client device, the account identifier; receiving data associated with a selected item, the selected item not at the location associated with the sensor network; responsive to receiving the account identifier from the client device, retrieving the data describing usage of the one or more items at the location associated with the sensor network; generating a comparison of the data associated with the selected item to the data describing usage of one or more items at the location associated with the sensor network; and transmitting, to the client device, the comparison of the data associated with the selected item to the data describing usage of one or more items at the location associated with the sensor network.