LIVING GREEN- HOME AUTOMATION AND YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

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For many environmentally conscious people, the amount of electricity they consume is a problem that must continuously be dealt with. This might take the form of trying to limit light usage, home heating and cooling, or any other forms of electricity use. This can be a difficult and logistically challenging task. Luckily, with the expansion of integrated home technology, there is a world of opportunity opening up in regards to managing your carbon footprint. The latest innovations have made awareness and management of energy usage easier than ever before, with home automation becoming more accessible to the average person by the day.

Controlling your energy usage has never been easier

Probably the number one environmental benefit to integrated home technology is the ability to track and automate all the amount of electricity that is being used by your home from a single device. With smart homes, lighting, heating/AC, security, theatre, appliances, and even locks are part of a network that communicates and is accessible from a device, whether it be a dedicated wall hub or your phone. This means that it is now possible to automate electrical usage to limit it to the least amount necessary. Once the limit has been set, the automated technology will do the rest, making reducing electrical output a breeze. You can set your lights to automatically dim after a certain amount of use, or your AC to shut off after a certain amount of power has been utilized.

Let the technology do the hard work for you

 

The use of integrated home technology also allows individuals and businesses to track their electrical expenses, and to evaluate and identify where their usage needs to be adjusted. This means that technology can now do the painstaking work of understanding how to improve our electrical use in a vastly more comprehensive and efficient way than your average person with a notebook or excel spreadsheet is capable of. The more we are able to understand our electrical use, the more we are able to adjust accordingly to keep ourselves aware and efficient in our electrical needs.

As we can see, the potential for environmental benefit from smart home technologies is sizeable, and it will only continue to grow as the technology improves. We are already beginning to see integrated homes becoming more common, and it is unlikely that the trend will slow anytime soon. For those who are looking for a way to automate their home or business’s electrical use, or to keep track of how much each portion of their home is using so as to have a better idea of how to improve, integrated home technologies provide a new set of tools that are proving to be extremely valuable in the quest for green living.

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