Press Release: Nowadays, when households are looking for practically any way to save on energy, the topic of a smart home is returning to the limelight. It not only brings practicality and help, but also the aforementioned saving, which is now such a hot topic. We can mainly save heating control in combination with shading and switching off sockets.
Traditional benefits of a smart home
Home is a place you like to return to, where you feel comfortable and safe. Solution smart homes this comfort and sense of security is further enhanced. It allows you to control lighting and appliances, check their status, open the garage door or driveway and centrally pull up blinds or blinds throughout the house. You can individually set the required temperatures and heating or cooling times for individual rooms, monitor the events in the house with an IP camera, monitor energy consumption and use a number of other safety and comfort functions. In addition, we can handle all communication with the system from our smartphone.
How does a smart home save you money?
Big a benefit of a smart home, and especially at the present time, is cost savings. A smart home saves you costs right from the purchase itself. You control everything in your house from one central unit, so you don't have to buy different controllers, which are both more expensive, but more importantly, you would have to spend time operating each one of them.
But the most important thing is the cost savings during operation, primarily thanks to the automated and wireless heating regulationand cooling. "Heating is probably the biggest topic of how to save today. All you have to do is buy the xComfort wireless solution, where wireless heads are installed on the radiators and installed in the cabinet or behind the TV xComfort Bridge wireless unit. It regulates water heating by throttling the flow. Floor heating can be regulated in a similar way," says Jaromír Pávek, specialist for smart installations.
"Solutions for a smart home Eaton xComfort will demonstrably help achieve long-term sustainability savings of up to 30% of heating costs and air conditioning of the house. Which, expressed in numbers, can easily amount to hundreds of thousands of crowns every year just on this component of savings, depending on the size of the household," points out Jaromír Pávek.
xComfort system it represents a wireless solution, so it is suitable not only for new buildings, but it can be implemented very simply and with a minimum of effort and construction interventions into the existing electrical installation and thus create a smart home. "It's a very quick solution where we don't have to cut anything or make complicated settings. In addition, you can easily set all functions from your phone," adds Jaromír Pávek.
Other components of operational savings include the control of appliances, lights, sockets and blinds exactly according to daily needs. This can be easily imagined in the way that the system smartly turns off unlit lights when you leave, closes the blinds in case of overheating or, conversely, extends them on a sunny winter day. "You're actually using solar energy for free," points out Jaromír Pávek. Switching off the sockets of all appliances that work in standby mode will also help us save energy.
But that's it savings potential he is far from exhausted. Increasingly, consumers are asking about the energy management of photovoltaic panels, the management of newly purchased boilers, heat pumps, electric floors, but also outdoor shading. "Energy can be effectively investigated here as well, again only with the help of installing a smart module," points out Jaromír Pávek.
The concept of a smart home is not limited to specific functions, and therefore, as technology develops, it is expected to be continuously expanded according to new technical possibilities and needs. Therefore, it is absolutely essential not to underestimate the choice of a supplier of smart home solutions - their know-how is your key to what can and cannot be connected. It is definitely worth choosing a proven brand with a rich history of successfully implemented orders.
Previously, a smart home was for the rich, today it is more of a way to save
Nowadays, a smart home is no longer the privilege of only "rich wallets". Regulation is also paid in apartments and small family houses. However, it is important not to succumb to what is "trendy" and to think critically about what and why to regulate and manage. It is still true that a smart home solution is not a one-size-fits-all product that you just take and plug in, but a modular solution that needs to be tailored to each household in order to fulfill its purpose.
