Thermostats, blinds, energy monitoring, and a more efficient home.
Heating and cooling accounts for the largest share of residential energy use, of residential energy use, and it’s also the area where smart home technology has the clearest and most measurable impact. Smart home climate control covers everything from a single smart thermostat to a multi-zone system with room sensors and automated ventilation — and…
Smart home technology and sustainability have an obvious overlap — energy monitoring, smart thermostats, automated lighting — but also a less obvious tension. Every device you add to a smart home was manufactured, consumes standby power, and will eventually become electronic waste. The question of whether a smart home is good for the environment has…
Everyone knows smart home devices can save energy. The US Department of Energy estimates smart thermostats alone can reduce heating and cooling costs by 10% annually. Fewer people know which ones actually move the needle and which are mostly marketing. The gap between the theoretical savings on a product page and the actual savings on…
Energy bills have been climbing, and for a lot of homeowners the smart home pivot from “cool gadgets” to “actually saves money” is happening right now. Smart home energy management — the combination of devices, monitoring, and automation that lets you understand and control what your home consumes — is one of the clearest cases…
Your smart thermostat tells you it saved energy this month. Your electricity bill disagrees. The problem isn’t the thermostat — it’s that most smart home setups have no real visibility into where the energy is actually going. A smart home energy monitor fixes that. This guide explains what home energy monitors are, how they work,…
Smart plugs are one of the best-selling smart home devices on the market, and the marketing is straightforward: plug them in, automate your appliances, watch your electricity bill fall. The honest answer is more specific — and more useful — than that. Yes, smart plugs can save electricity. But whether yours will depends almost entirely…
It’s one of the most common — and most justified — questions in smart home buying: do smart thermostats save money? The marketing answer is enthusiastic and full of percentages. The honest answer is more useful, and more nuanced. Yes, smart thermostats genuinely save money for most households — typically around 10–15% on heating and…