United StatesFlume is an American company founded after California's 2014 drought to make household water use visible. Its single product line is the Flume smart water monitor, a strap-on sensor that reads the existing residential water meter magnetically and relays usage to a Wi-Fi bridge indoors, so it needs no plumbing work. The app reports real-time consumption by fixture, sets budgets, and sends leak alerts for both catastrophic bursts and slow drips.
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Synology is a Taiwanese company founded in 2000 that specializes in network attached storage, backup appliances and surveillance recorders. Its DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system is the most established in the category, covering Btrfs snapshots, cloud sync, and a Surveillance Station package that turns a NAS into a local network video recorder for IP cameras. Models with Intel or AMD processors run Container Manager, which is the usual way people self-host Home Assistant and similar services at home.
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NASSynologyDS124
7% OFF$149.99$138.99
NASSynologyDS1525+
$897.25
NASSynologyDS1823xs+
$2049.99
NASSynologyDS1825+
$1249.99
NASSynologyDS223
6% OFF$304.99$285.99
NASSynologyDS223j
$209.99
NASSynologyDS225+
$364.99
NASSynologyDS2422+
$1999.99
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$3449.99
NASSynologyDS423
$399.99
NASSynologyDS425+
$599.99
NASSynologyDS725+
$547.11
NASSynologyDS925+
$705.83