Making Your Home More Efficient With Smart Home Energy
As Smart Home Solutions become ever more affordable many people are looking at how to use the technology to reduce bills. Here we look at some of the ways you can utilise smart home gadgets to save energy, decrease your carbon footprint and reduce your energy bill.
What is Smart Technology?
Smart home technology is the term used to describe a range of products that allow you to remotely control your home’s energy usage. With a connected wifi network, a smart house can allow you to monitor, manage and even optimise your home’s energy efficiency. Heating, lighting, security and other smart devices or electrical equipment can be managed from anywhere in the world using just an app on a smartphone or tablet. Start saving money on your gas and electricity bill with our guide to smart home energy solutions.
Benefits of Smart Home Technology
Smart home technology provides a range of benefits that help make your home more efficient and reduce the amount of energy you use. By monitoring energy usage and automatically turning off unused devices, you can dramatically reduce your energy consumption.
Smart Thermostats
Being able to control your smart thermostat from anywhere has a number of benefits. Smart thermostats can be programmed to the optimum temperature for each season and can adapt automatically in order to save energy. Smart home tech, through direct integration with heating systems and a smart thermostat, allows you to turn down your heating when you’re away from home or prioritise rooms that are in use. With an app on your phone or a dedicated home hub you can ‘talk’ to your thermostat, setting temperatures from any location and even allow it to learn your habits.
Heatmiser NeoStat V2
NeoStat V2, for instance, is an intelligent, fully programmable thermostat that allows you to program your temperature settings for different days and times of the week. It’s compatible with most heating systems, is Wi-Fi enabled, and can be easily integrated with other smart home devices.
Creating Heating Zones
Smart home tech can help by creating separate zones within the house for different temperatures is an easy way to save energy. By separating different parts of the home into different zones, and controlling them independently, you can ensure that the room you use the most is heated efficiently while other, less frequented areas do not remain unnecessarily warm.
This can be particularly helpful if, for instance, you work from home. You can set your home office to be warmer than the rest of the house during the day and vice versa in the evening thus saving on your energy bills.
Heatmiser UH8-N Manifold Controller
The Heatmiser UH8-N Manifold Controller allows you to control up to 8 rooms or areas in your home independently. You can monitor, manage and adjust the temperature in each area remotely. It’s compatible with most central heating systems and is Wi-Fi enabled and offers a cost-effective solution for zoning your home. Hot water can also be controlled separately giving you additional control over your energy efficiency.
Smart Lighting
Smart Lighting is a great energy-efficient way to light up your home. It uses energy-saving smart bulbs to reduce energy use whilst also providing convenience and control. Not only can you set timers to fit in with your schedule, dim the lights and change the light bulbs’ colours easily, but you can also easily monitor energy consumption.
With Smart Lighting, there are endless possibilities to help you save energy while also creating a smarter home that strives for energy efficiency. Energy use can be monitored and tailored to your needs, allowing you to control the amount of energy used.
Smart plugs can be used to add an existing lamp under smart control. (A smart plug can be used for many other appliances such as a TV, washing machine or even a stock pot).
Integrating Solar Power
Integrating solar power into your smart home energy system is an exciting new opportunity for homeowners. By adding solar panels, smart homes can produce their own energy to reduce energy bills. With battery storage smart homes can also store solar energy for later use, allowing homeowners to make the most of the energy from the sun.
Lowering Your Carbon Footprint
Utilising the power of the sun not only gives you green energy but this renewable energy source can also reduce your electricity bills. With remote access and EV charging you can take advantage of the sunny weather to charge your electric car: or pop on the washing machine to take advantage of that sun. Any excess can be sold back to the national grid giving you a truly energy-efficient home and helping you save money.
Conclusion
Smart home energy is an ever-growing market as more and more customers are looking for ways to be more efficient with their homes in the future. New products are constantly brought to the market that can help you save money on your energy bill, and give you more control of your energy usage, but it can be hard to know where to start. If you’re interested in making your home more efficient, contact us today for more information.
