System and method for maintaining a measure of accumulated energy delivered to an appliance by a first smart socket followed by a second replacement smart socket

A method for maintaining a measure of accumulated energy delivered to an appliance, the method comprising:

• a supervisor repeatedly receiving from a first smart socket a measure of energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket, wherein the first smart socket includes a meter for measuring the energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket;
• the supervisor maintaining the measure of accumulated energy delivered to the appliance based at least in part on the measures of energy repeatedly received from the first smart socket of energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket;
• automatically detecting when the supervisor is no longer repeatedly receiving from the first smart socket the measures of energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket, indicating that the first smart socket has experienced a fault and should be replaced with a second smart socket;
• the supervisor determining that the first smart socket has been replaced with the second smart socket;
• once the supervisor determines that the first smart socket has been replaced with the second smart socket, the supervisor:
• repeatedly receiving from the second smart socket a measure of energy delivered to the appliance by the second smart socket, wherein the second smart socket includes a meter for measuring the energy delivered to the appliance by the second smart socket;
• continue maintaining the measure of accumulated energy delivered to the appliance based at least in part on the measures previously received from the first smart socket of energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket and the measures repeatedly received from the second smart socket of energy delivered to the appliance by the second smart socket;
• and
• displaying the measure of accumulated energy delivered to the appliance on a dashboard, wherein the measure of accumulated energy delivered to the appliance is equal to a sum of the energy delivered to the appliance by the first smart socket and the energy delivered to the appliance by the second smart socket.