Home automation allows you to stay comfortable while saving money, by actively managing your home’s energy consumption. With home automation technology, you can control schedules and settings of your home’s lighting, heating, and cooling systems. You can also manage aspects of your home’s water usage and more, based on your schedule and activities or a change in seasons or weather conditions.
An example of how home automation can save you money is if you were to accidentally leave the lights on at home. You can log into a mobile app to see which lights are on, and can turn the lights off remotely from your laptop or mobile device. Instead of the lights remaining on all day, wasting energy, creating excess heat and costing you money, you can resolve the problem with just a few clicks.
Another area where you can achieve significant cost savings is your home’s heating and cooling system. Let’s say that you prefer your home to be a chilly 65 degrees. Maintaining this temperature throughout the day, especially in the heat of summer, can be very expensive. But there’s no need for your home to be this cool when you are not home. With home automation, you can set your HVAC unit to run on a particular schedule. If you leave for work at 9:00am, you can instruct your cooling system to move to a higher setting at that time. If you typically return at 6:00pm, your HVAC unit can revert back to the lower setting in time to bring your home’s temperature down to 65 degrees ahead of your arrival. When you walk in the door, your home will be at your desired temperature, without the unnecessary expense, and wear and tear on your HVAC system, were it to have run for nine hours continuously.