What is a smart thermostat for?
A smart thermostat’s main objective is to offer information about what temperature it is in a house and, also, to be able to remote control the heating. You can create plans through this device. For example, you can configure it to turn on the heating at one time and turn it off after a while, to maintain a medium temperature, etc.
If you wonder why it is going to be so important this winter, the answer is in the energy saving. Due to the increase in the price of supplies, being able to save on the bill each month has become more important. Without a doubt, heating will consume an important part of the total. Therefore, managing that consumption is going to be important.
A smart thermostat will help to have a greater control and manage everything better. For example, you will be able to turn the heating on and off from anywhere. If you’re going to get home early, you can schedule it to come on at a certain time and not have to leave it on all day.
You can also program it so that at a certain time at night it turns off or lowers the temperature. In addition, you can program to lower the temperature or even turn it off in the middle of the day, when sunlight enters through the window and thus be able to take advantage of it to save electricity.
If we echo a report by Kagan, they calculate that a greater use of the number of homes with a smart thermostat linked to heating, ventilation and air conditioning could reach save 9% of energy per year. Logically, this can be more or less depending on each home, the use we give it, etc.
Loss of control in the future?
As you can see, the main idea of smart thermostats is to be able to better control the temperature and also do it from anywhere. Very useful to save in winter. However, we come to a question that can be a problem: are we going to lose control of our heating or air conditioning in the future?
Last summer, the US experienced several heat waves that in some places were record high with days in a row with record temperatures. This caused some places like California to launch warning messages on mobile phones asking the population to reduce energy consumption as much as possible at certain times. But this even affected people who had smart thermostats at home. Specifically, in the State of Colorado, more than 20,000 users were unable to control their smart thermostats because energy emergency they were blocked so that they did not put a temperature lower than the recommended one to have a reasonable consumption.
Will we see this at some point in Europe? In some countries such as Germany they have already indicated that they plan to control the thermostat in public buildings to maintain a maximum temperature in winter. It is undoubtedly a very useful instrument to save energy in winter, but it can cause us to lose control in certain cases due to an energy emergency.
