How Smart Thermostats Save Your Money
Many people have expressed skepticism about the benefits of the advent of smart thermostats in recent years. Those who are concerned with how their data is collected don’t like having every movement of their homes tracked, while technology purists express doubt that a perfectly good thermostat system – capable of turning the heat up and down and, on a good day, of timing the change between the two to suit who will be home or not – needed to be replaced by something ‘smart’ at all.
But as oil prices around the world soar, the climate crisis becomes increasingly prevalent, and heating/cooling homes becomes increasingly challenging and expensive, there is no longer any denying that smart thermostats are the way to go for one very simple, powerful reason: smart thermostats can save you money. Here are three ways in which smart thermostats help protect your wallet from additional costs in your home and are therefore a more than worthy investment.
Smart Thermostats Allow Total Control
Picture this: your alarm doesn’t go off (your phone died in the night; it happens to the best of us!), and you wake up twenty minutes later than usual. Unfortunately, this is not a day when your boss is going to be ok with you waltzing in late to work. There’s a big meeting happening first thing, and you are in charge of presenting the yearly returns report to the clients who are coming all the way from out of state! You race around the house in a tizzy, grabbing coffee and breakfast, pressing a shirt to wear and look presentable in, and frantically race out to de-ice the car before you can drive it.
Finally, you get on the road and make it to work just in the nick of time to take a breather and have a catch-up with your boss before the meeting. But, just as you are locking the car, you realize: you forgot to turn the heating off! Because of the unusual snowstorm the night, you had it turned way up, but since your partner and children are away this week, there is no one else to turn it back down, and no one will be in the house all day. In the past, this would have been a disaster, but thanks to your smart thermostat, it only takes you two seconds on your phone to rectify this issue and save yourself lots of money.
Smart Thermostats Show You What You’re Using
Not only can you have total control over when your heating or air conditioning goes on and off, many smart thermostats now connect to your energy account in order to show you just how much you’re spending with each bit of energy you use to heat or cool your house.
This means that if you’re hoping to cut back on costs, you can see exactly where you can best do that rather than guessing! Managing the heat at the right times of day can help you save serious money over time, and smart thermostats help you do just that!
