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The smart home is a trend that is gaining more and more followers and is becoming known to the general public. Find out how to make the most of a smart home and save energy not only on heating your house.
Smart homes are being talked about more and more often, not just among technology enthusiasts. A smart home is becoming a necessity due to rising energy costs and demands for ecology and living comfort.
A smart home is not just a few "gadgets," but a sophisticated ecosystem that integrates various technologies for smart and efficient control of home equipment – from heating and air conditioning to shading, lighting, security, and even home appliances, televisions, music systems, and much more. If you live in a family house, you can also include the garden, greenhouse, or even a chicken coop in your smart home.
You might be wondering why to invest in a smart home when you have smart appliances and electronics that work exactly as you want. However, with a smart home, you get much more. Intelligent technologies integrated into the smart home system communicate with each other, and you control them all with a single control unit or mobile app. This brings several advantages:
Comfort: With a smart home, you can completely leave many routine activities to smart technologies. And what's more – you can program everything to experience perfect comfort. How about being woken up every morning by the smell of freshly ground coffee, soft lighting, and pleasant music instead of an annoying alarm clock? All this is possible with a smart home.
Easy Control: Thanks to the central control unit, which you can usually operate with your smartphone or voice assistant, you don't need several apps or controllers for each appliance separately. You control everything easily with one user interface.
Security: An important factor is also security – a smart home with smart cameras recognizes when someone unfamiliar is at your place and notifies not only you but also the police. Household members can enter without keys thanks to smart handles that scan fingerprints. In a smart home, you can also set the lights to turn on at regular intervals during your holiday, deterring potential thieves. Moreover, a smart home detects various risks in time, such as gas leaks, burst pipes, etc.
Synchronization: With a smart home, you can also create so-called scenarios, i.e., program several actions that you can easily trigger at once or in a predetermined sequence. Everything then happens automatically, and you don't have to remember to lock the door, turn on security cameras and the robotic vacuum, lower the heating, draw the blinds, etc., after leaving for work. You do all this with a single click.
Energy Savings: The biggest advantage that attracts the general public to smart homes is financial savings. Smart technologies can evaluate a range of data, automatically optimizing the operation of electronics or heating.
With a smart home system, you can control all smart technologies in the household.
Heating traditionally represents the largest item on household energy bills. Smart heating is therefore the foundation of every smart home and can save you a significant amount of money. Intelligent heating control saves up to 30% of energy, making the average return on this investment only 1-3 years.
In addition, a smart thermostat for the boiler provides higher thermal comfort, as you can program the temperature for each time of day, each day of the week, and each room separately. The smart room thermostat can evaluate a range of other data – such as the presence of people in the room, window opening, weather forecast, etc. Every corner of your home will always have the optimal temperature with minimal energy consumption, without having to manually regulate the heating.
Heating for a smart home can take the form of a smart thermostatic valve on the radiator or a smart thermostat for the boiler. WiFi thermostatic valves are suitable for homes with central heating – these valves regulate heating only on the radiator itself and do not communicate with the boiler. If you have your own boiler (or possibly a heat pump, solar panels, etc.), definitely choose a smart WiFi thermostat, ideally in combination with smart thermostatic valves on the radiators (if you have radiators).
Wireless thermostat for heating can be controlled via mobile, internet, or smart home system, so you can comfortably heat up before you get home. In the app, you will also have a perfect overview of the temperature in the home and energy consumption. You will never again overheat and waste energy unnecessarily.
Siemens Connected Home radiator set.
With a smart home system, you can connect, for example, a smart thermostat Siemens Connected Home, through the ZigBee protocol, which is supported by the vast majority of smart home systems. The set regulates both the boiler or circulation pump in heating and the radiators themselves. This means that you can program and control the temperature in each room separately. Depending on the number of radiators, you can choose a set with the appropriate number of radiator valves, which measure the temperature and regulate the flow of heating water through the radiator. Up to ten temperature zones can be created for one room thermostat.
The smart thermostat for heating Siemens Connected Home is wireless. This means that all components communicate via WiFi and can be controlled remotely using a mobile app – whether it's the Siemens app or your smart home app. Thanks to wireless technology, the installation of this system requires no construction work.
The WiFi thermostat Siemens Connected Home saves you heating costs because:
it allows you to create up to ten temperature zones, so you won't overheat any room unnecessarily,
it allows you to program a heating schedule, so the heating won't run at full power unnecessarily when you're not home or sleeping,
it can work with different electricity tariffs and plan water heating to ensure it is done at the lowest possible cost.
Heat smartly and minimize heating costs with wireless room thermostats. In addition to savings, you will gain higher thermal comfort and a perfect overview of energy consumption.
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