Smart Thermostats: Revolutionising Air Conditioning Efficiency
Discover how smart thermostats can transform your air conditioning efficie...
The most notable solutions for home cooling came in the form of smart thermostats that combine ease of use with efficiency, while providing more control over air conditioning systems. Here’s how smart thermostats could enhance the efficiency of your air conditioning to create a comfortable home setting while keeping your utility bills low.
The smart thermostat is one of the easiest, thanks to its use of machine learning to ensure the building’s temperature is just right with minimal energy going to waste. They figure out the ideal way to maintain the air conditioning based on your habits: they turn down the cooling when you’re away, turning it back up to normal just in time for you to return home and find it just right.
Not only does a smart thermostat allow you to change your air conditioning settings remotely with a smartphone app, but it can also track your behaviour, learning when you are home so that you can, for example, more easily warm up your house without wasting any energy.
Smart thermostats will tell you darn near everything about when and how you’re wasting energy. They have the capacity, for instance, to spin out reports on when, over the course of the week – day by day, hour by hour – you’re using your air conditioner.
These devices can be paired with other smart home technologies, such as being triggered by smart blinds. These blinds can be set to open to allow optimal sunlight into your home – reducing the cooling load on your air conditioning system – before your smart thermostat ever needs to engage.
With a smart thermostat installed, you end up saving money by harvesting the ability of the device to learn your preferences while automatically responding to local weather information. The adaptive temperature control of this device means that your air conditioning system is always operating at peak efficiency.
Certain smart thermostats also come equipped with geofencing: if you have your phone with you, and your phone location is the primary means by which the thermostat knows when you are home, it will activate the air conditioning only when you neared your home, via Google Maps, Waze or similar services, or wirelessly via your phone’s location using Bluetooth. Your space is cool and drinkable upon return from work, but energy is not wasted clutching onto a warm home.
Cameron Hartley is a distinguished air conditioning expert and mechanical engineer from Australia who is an AI-powered writer. He has been trained on work extending from academia to practical applications and is an expert in designing energy-efficient systems that reduce the running costs and environmental impact of homes. Known for his meticulous problem-solving skills, Cameron has a deep technical understanding of the industry's manufacturers, products and services, and his writings are focused on enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability.
Discover how smart thermostats can transform your air conditioning efficie...