when I worked in the IoT space this would have been a god send at that price, just so we could quickly answer if we had some large power outage occurring simultaneously with an outage.

Yea, we technically had the data to figure that out ourselves but the platform hadnt been built with that in mind and this would have probably taken 3-4 years at this price for an engineer to refactor everything to get the data and thats only if they succeeded in the task

Edit: would have probably taken 3-4 years at this price _to break even_