These days, just about any electrical item in your home has a version available that uses smart home technology. Smart kettle? You got it. Smart vacuum? Yep. Smart fridge? Say no more.
Little wonder then, that you can give your central heating system the Smart Treatment too.
In today’s blog, we’ll take a look at the main smart home tech systems that we offer and explain how they can help you optimise your heating and energy usage with ultra convenience.
Smart Central Heating
Our two most popular smart home technology systems are our smart thermostats, and smart radiator valves.
We also offer smart doorbell systems and smart cameras too, however, we’ll come on to those later.
Smart Thermostats
Our smart thermostats revolutionise the way that your central heating system operates, by making sure your boiler is heating your radiators and hot water exactly when you need it.
This smart tech achieves this by learning your heating (not eating, thankfully) habits, for example when you have a shower in the morning, when you give the kids a bath, and even when you leave the house (if coupled with other smart tech).
Your smart thermostat then adjusts boiler operational timings accordingly, so you’re not using it unnecessarily for example if you’re staying late at work.
The convenience of smart home technology doesn’t end there.
With the integration and control with mobile apps, you can control your smart thermostat remotely from anywhere.
So, let’s say you’re leaving work early – you’ll be able to fire up the boiler while you’re driving home, so that you’re not coming back to a cold house. Alternatively, it could be warmer out than you were expecting, and you could set the temperature to be cooler accordingly.
All of this means that you’re only using the boiler when you need to, and only at the temperatures required, so you only use the gas, oil or electricity as needed – saving you big money on your monthly bills.
Smart Radiator Valves
The next smart home technology step is to upgrade your standard TRVs with some smart radiator valves.
These offer room-by-room control, meaning you can adjust the temperature of individual rooms, preventing wasted energy in the lesser used spaces – using the convenient mobile app.
So, you’re on a night out and your friend decides to stay over. From your app, you can warm up the spare room ahead of your arrival. Or let’s say you’re hosting an A-list celebrity who insists on their bedroom being 18.3 degrees precisely…you can set this exact temperature too!
Again, being able to set and optimise individual room temperatures is yet another way that you can prevent unnecessary boiler fuel usage, saving you money.
Smart Home Technology Integration
Combining your smart home technology really squeezes out the most benefit and gives you the ultimate bang for your buck.
With a smart radiator valve in every room, and a smart thermostat, you can create zoned heating, meaning you’ll have different temperature zones in your home, which can be set up according to room usage.
It sounds a bit big brother (perhaps “boiler brother”), but your central heating system can even learn when you’re coming and going from home and optimise its heating schedules accordingly.
Depending on the smart home technology you opt for, this may be achieved via smart motion sensors, geolocation data sent by your phone app, or even monitoring the temperature of your home itself (if it becomes cooler, it can assume you’re out for the day).
While having your central heating system peering over your shoulder may sound a little strange, it does mean that it can fully optimise your heating and save you as much money through economising fuel usage, as possible.
Other Smart Home Tech
Once you’ve started to upgrade to smart home technology, why stop at your central heating system?
We offer other smart tech that can be integrated and controlled simultaneously, meaning you can see all the usual benefits of smart tech but the added convenience of a single controlling system.
Our additional smart home solutions are principally our smart doorbells, and smart cameras.
Ding-Tron(g)
Smart doorbells are becoming a firm favourite around the world, and for good reason.
With the camera on the front, you can monitor who is at the door and even talk to them like an intercom. The cameras also double up as a night security system which will record automatically when it detects movement near your home.
Because of the integrated smart home technology, your doorbell can send you alerts to your mobile app whenever someone presses the button, and let you know when it detects movement.
You can even couple your doorbell up to controllers such as an Amazon smart speaker – so you can talk to whoever is at your door without having to use your phone.
iSpy
Our smart cameras offer similar advantages to the smart doorbell, however, they don’t necessarily go ding-dong in the same way!
These cameras can be placed high up and out of sight, unlike the doorbell, so you can monitor who’s on your property without being detected. You can also keep track of what your kids are doing, or even the dog!
Both the smart doorbell and camera offer unprecedented levels of security and can prove invaluable when providing information to insurers, and even aid the police and emergency services with their investigations of crime and other events that have happened in the vicinity.
Get Smart With Switched On Yorkshire
It’s never been easier to upgrade your home with the latest smart tech.
Installation is quick and easy, with minimal outlay required, so you’ll be feeling the benefits of an optimised home and reduced energy bills as a bonus, in no time.
You don’t have to upgrade your entire central heating system, or even opt for all the smart options straight away. To start optimising your central heating with our smart home technology, get in touch today.
