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What if the heating and cooling system in your home can work on its own based on occupancy level or by sensing any human activity? What if you can wake up every day in a warm and pleasant environment around you? It sounds like a dream, right? Well, smart thermostats can do endless things that will be beyond your imagination. So, what smart thermostat exactly is and why they have an essential role to play in smart home automation. Let’s delve ahead without further ado.

What is Smart Thermostat?

Smart Thermostat is the new-age thermostat which can be operated using smartphone, tablet, and voice control assistants. Smart thermostats are intelligent to automatically manage cooling or heating of your home as per user behavior or smart schedule defined by the user.

How Do They Work?

A smart thermostat is mainly responsible for maintaining the temperature within your home based on how a user wants the ideal temperature to be, as per different time in a day. However, few thermostats are capable of controlling the heating and cooling based on their learning i.e., by identifying the user behavior and energy consumption by other smart devices. This type of thermostat also alerts the homeowner about the time-to-time maintenance required by the devices due to the presence of a self-diagnostic feature. Some thermostats also come with geofencing technology that enables them to control the heating & cooling system along with other smart home appliances only when the owner is within a certain radius of the home. Similarly, based on geofencing technology, a smart thermostat can turn off everything when it detects no human activity within the home.

Benefits of Using Smart Thermostat in Your Smart Home

1.Lots of Saving on Energy Bills:-

One of the main advantages of using Smart Thermostat at home is saving your lot of money on energy bills. Most of the popular thermostat by leading brands that are available in the market gives energy-saving tips and maintenance of optimal temperature in different zones of your home. This helps you to keep an eye on the usage of heating & cooling systems in your home, and you know exactly when to turn off that extra fan or air conditioner.

2. One Touch Control from Smartphone:- 

Operating a smart thermostat from your smartphone seamlessly, even when you are not at home, is one of the promising features that give it an edge over the traditional thermostats. With the smart thermostat and the compatible app installed on your smartphone, you can schedule a perfect temperature just before your arrival from work. If you are going for an extended vacation, you can always check on your heating & cooling system to know whether they are functioning correctly or not.

3. HVAC Control and Energy Monitoring:-

With prolong use of Smart Thermostats, they start working on deep learning based on user activity and energy usage. The smart thermostat also gives you an energy consumption report, predicts energy consumption cost that may increase due to present consumption, and where a homeowner can make changes to cut down cost on energy bills.

4. Transform Home Ambiance based on External Climate:- 

What if the cooling system can be activated instantly at home to bring down the temperature amid extreme heatwaves outside? What if you can enjoy a warmer ambiance when it is chilly and freezing outside? A smart thermostat can do these all, based on the inbuilt weather tracking feature that prepares your home against changing climate and temperature.

5. Compatible with Voice Control Assistants:-

The convenience of controlling home with multiple ways with added comfort and security is an evident innovation of a smart home. Through home automation,  Home Owners are experiencing hassle-free daily chores for quite some time.  

When installed and designed correctly, smart home products save a lot of money by using energy efficiently, which saves a lot on electricity bills, and the fact is not known to many people.

There are specific devices and systems which would help a homeowner in monitoring the energy and use the devices accordingly.

This article explains how a Smart Home helps in saving energy consumption.

1.Smart Lights

One need not get down off the bed to switch OFF the light that is left ON. With one touch or tap, all the lights can be turned ON/OFF. Smart Lights can be programmed in different ways; they can be predefined to dim automatically at particular times of a day in particular rooms.

2.Incorporating energy meters

Integrating energy meters in every room helps in tracking the power consumed in each room and reducing the consumption, which is overused. This helps in tracking, monitoring, paying bills, and scheduling devices accordingly.

3.Smart Thermostats

Through the smart thermostats, you need not worry about leaving them ON/OFF. It detects the temperature and automatically adjusts accordingly. They also identify the occupancy and turn OFF if no user is found.

4.Setting Scenes and Rules

Scenes, Rules, and Schedules are a great way to save energy. For instance, with a good morning scene - blinds open, the light at the front door turns OFF, and the thermostat adjusts the temperature automatically. The same can be set for a good night scene also. This helps a homeowner in saving energy as it is tough every time to remember the switches to control manually.

5.Setting modes

For security purposes, we tend to switch on a few lights when we are out for a vacation. This can cause more energy consumption because of turning the lights on continuously. Instead, setting modes as vacation mode, party mode, meditation mode, etc would help you reduce power usage. For instance, you can predefine only a few lights to be ON in a particular room at a specific time of the day when you are on vacation.

6.Water meters and sprinklers

Smart water meters implant the most effective way of consuming the water resource. These help in planning water schedules for regular consumption and track the usage. Smart Sprinklers automatically water the garden based on the climate changes and the most level of the lawn.

7.Smart Blinds

Motorized blinds help in reducing the bills throughout the year by automatically regulating the amount of heat which can enter and escape from the house through the use of motorized shades. These help in adjusting the shades remotely, which removes the hassles of manual adjusting and keeps the home warm/cool enough when integrated into a smart home system.

8.Smart Sensors

Smart Sensors monitor and control multiple things in a home and provide remote access. Depending on the occupancy, they turn ON/OFF devices and notifies the user when something is a miss. For instance, when the thermostat is ON or when the door is opened, they send push notification to the smartphone.

Most people always misunderstand the concept of a Smart Home. They think the idea of it is buying sensors, lights, smart switches, insert modules, and pairing them with a Smart Hub and controlling the entire home. In reality, these things might take consuming, need to invest a lot of money, and it is overrated to some people.

Considering a regular home, it doesn’t require all of these things. If the advantages of a connected home are understood clearly, one won’t hesitate to invest. However, every Smart Home brand offers a starter kit for the smart home beginners to try a demo. Besides the Home Automation brands, here are the few suggestions from Hogar, which you can work as a Starter Kit before upgrading to a Smart Home.

Smart Speaker:- 

Smart Speaker acts as an anchor to your home. It interacts with the devices ad allows voice control. Getting the one from the market is a bit tricky because every brand has its pros and cons. As a beginner, it is better to go with Amazon or Google.

Smart Lighting:- 

Smart bulbs allow you to control and customize the lighting. It is an upgrade from conventional lighting as it will enable a user to create scenes, set rules, and change the light according to the most of the bulbs are compatible with Apple Home kits and Voice, assistants also.

Smart Thermostats:- 

Smart Thermostats can reduce the power consumption, provide the comfort of controlling conveniently. These allow predefining and provides the cooling/heating of a room before anyone is home. When integrated, these act according to the weather changes and saves most of the time and energy.

Home Security System:- 

The Smart Home Security System includes so many things as indoor and outdoor cameras, surveillance cameras, etc. A simple security camera installed at indoor and outdoor can alter a lot of things in a home. With an indoor camera, your home will always be in view as it allows you to monitor pets, children while outdoor cameras capture all the visitors let you interact with them without the need of rushing to the door every time the doorbell rings.

Multi-Room Audio System:-

There are several sophisticated multi-room audio speakers available in the market that enables a user to drop a piece of music in a single room and stream the same audio in different places. It allows a user to play from online music Apps or the own tracks or playlist. 

Smart Smoke and CO detectors:- 

Though there are regular detectors available in the market, they are not doing any good because they produce an alarm, but what if the people are not open to hearing the alarm? Smart Smoke detectors are great as they alert when something happens through a smartphone. As everyone would be using smartphones often, there are no chances of missing the notifications.

Hogar Controls, is a pioneer in the Smart Home Automation, is helping businesses excel through the connected space. Considering every home-owner and to match the requirements, Hogar always thrives to provide the best and that’s the reason it never stops innovating; Always stays up-to-date with emerging technologies and incorporates convenient living. 

The Hogar Controls Inc, is a leading global IoT device manufacturing company, providing reliable and robust solutions for residential, hospitality, and commercial sectors. Based on the requirements and to cater to every space, Hogar created a range of products as Smart Series, Series, Touch Series, and Enviro Series.

Smart Series is a collection of products that includes hubs and controllers. As hubs are the “brain” of the controls system to fulfill the necessity of a small space to a larger one, they are two versions - Home Controller Pro and Pebble. HC Pro integrates with any Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi devices and works collaboratively by providing the impeccable user experience. These are designed to fit in any standard power outlet and let a user check summaries, alerts, rules, scenes, and manage the entire home locally or remotely. Pebble enables a user to control all the devices in the house with nine different gestures and eliminates the need for monitoring with a Smartphone. This is portable and can be carried around to any place in the home or stick on metal, glass, and wooden surfaces.

Touch Series is a collection of the unique range of touch panels that are otherwise termed as smart switches. These are aesthetically designed to fit any space, and the breathtaking design complements each wall and interior. There is a collection of panels based on the user requirements which well work with Smart Hub.

Security Series is a collection of devices that are must need for the enhanced security of a home. It includes Video Door Bell and Sensor Camera, which helps a home-owner to keep an eye around the house from anywhere around the world. Video Door Bell is a standalone product that has an App exclusively designed to check, view, and answer the visitor calls at the front door. When integrated with the Smart Hub and Door Locks, it let users unlock/lock the door remotely. A Sensor Camera is an indoor wireless camera that helps the user to monitor in and access the home. Both the devices send a push notification when motion is detected and keep the user to be aware from anywhere

Enviro Series is a collection of devices that are designed to perform. This includes 

IR Controller which eliminates the need for IR remotes as it controls every IR device through an App. 

The 3-in-1 module is designed to fit in any electrical switchboard, turns any switch to smart. It controls circuits on low power and devices like lights, fans, blinds, and shades.

Fan Speed Controller designed to be an alternative to a traditional regulator, lets the user control the fan speed at three different levels through the App. 

RGBW Insert Moule is an innovation inspired by nature. It allows the user to control the dynamic lighting experience the magic of 16 million colors through the App.

Based on the controllers and user experience, there are Apps - Hogar Pro and Hogar Cam, which are intuitive and transforms any home into a brilliant living space.

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The primary benefit of the Smart Lights is setting up the ambiance; the ability to change the lighting as the way you like. Set up the lights in your children’s bedroom while studying, or for setting up the party, or adjust accordingly.   

If your mood is little off lately, set the light to help you increase, and change your mind. Studies have shown that light plays a massive part in depression. Bright light can cause depression, while dimmer lighting provides calmer, more rational mindsets.

Lights, the primary source and need are now upgrading. As a part of embracing Smart Home Automation, many homeowners are switching from traditional to smart lighting because of the benefits and comfort it offers.

With Smart Lights, you never have to worry about fumbling for light switches in the dark, or set mood according to the event; instead, you can predefine the devices to do this for you. You wouldn’t believe if we say there are some of the health benefits with Smart Lighting. 

Some of them are

Helps to increase Mental Health: - 

We experience stress and anxiety every day of the hustles, and the thought of forgetting the lights to switch OFF while leaving home shouldn’t create more tension. Well, with the smart lights, you can leave that worry aside as you can easily control and check the lights from anywhere around the world as smart lights can be integrated with Smart hubs and Apps.

Less prone to falls and accidents: -

With Smart Lighting, one can have complete control through the App as it can be integrated with any Smart Home Automation App and Smart Hub. This is a convenient method as you need not fumble in the dark when you wake up in the middle of the night.

You might have to wake up your children or partner at night to navigate the home, instead, you can set your light to dim the intensity, and a soft color that allows you to navigate your home safely in the dark.

Increase/Decrease to enhance the mood: -

The primary benefit of the Smart Lights is setting up the ambiance; the ability to change the lighting as the way you like. Set up the lights in your children’s bedroom while studying, or for setting up the party, or adjust accordingly.   

If your mood is little off lately, set the light to help you increase, and change your mind. Studies have shown that light plays a massive part in depression. Bright light can cause depression, while dimmer lighting provides calmer, more rational mindsets.

Worry less about Security: -

Intruders take advantage of an empty home, turning fewer lights ON would create false thinking that the house is occupied. You can set the lights to turn ON/OFF off at certain times of the day or night.  

Let’s say you leave on vacation and don't want to give the space to intruders. You can set a few lights to switch ON at night so that it feels like the home is occupied with someone. Schedule the lights or manually turn them ON/OFF while on the travel/beach.

Select Light to reduce Eyestrain and Fatigue: -

You can reduce eyestrain and headaches by installing these lights in the kitchen, bedroom, office or anywhere around. Traditional fluorescent bulbs flicker a lot which creates severe effects on eyes and causes a mild headache. 

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A smart home is more than just a place to live. It’s a place you experience comfort, safety, and simplified living. With our range of smart home products, you can control your home with just a touch from anywhere at any time. Want to know more about smart homes?