As you can see on above image, we have measured (left to right) one powerline adapter, one wireless access point and the homefibre device (OMC100SDA) with a power meter. All of the devices have been in idle mode, doing nothing. The comparison shows that - although doing nothing - the powerline and wireless devices are using more power than our device using POF technology. This is even more valid if data transfer is taking place. Powerline and wireless devices needs more computational power to filter noise from the data transfer than the optical device.