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Connected objects to reduce the energy bill at home

2022-06-27T15:56:54.788Z


The smart home is making a strong comeback at a time when you have to control your consumption. Connected home, Smart Home... under these umbrella words hides a rich offer of products, many of which have the same purpose: to reduce energy expenditure by controlling expenditure. The first stone of the edifice - apart from building insulation - involves controlling consumption. An essential point to respond to the call for control of energy expenditure launched by EDF, TotalEnergies and Engie.


Connected home, Smart Home... under these umbrella words hides a rich offer of products, many of which have the same purpose: to reduce energy expenditure by controlling expenditure.

The first stone of the edifice - apart from building insulation - involves controlling consumption.

An essential point to respond to the call for control of energy expenditure launched by EDF, TotalEnergies and Engie.

Read alsoTotalEnergies, EDF and Engie call on the French to consume less energy

In summer, rather than using an air conditioner that consumes a lot of electricity, why not try ventilating your house to cool it down?

The Velux roof window manufacturer thus offers a range of electric motors that allow you to program automatic opening during the coolest hours of the night and close them when it is warmer.

All with a solution to close the blinds automatically.

This solution is installed on an existing device.

Somfy even offers a bay window motor to automate opening and closing.

The French manufacturer is the only one to have it in its catalog.

But this time, it must be installed as soon as the windows are installed.

Automating the closing of awnings and rolling shutters is also a way of reducing the exposure of rooms to the sun, depending on the brightness.

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But if the air conditioner really seems essential to you, the connected models at least have the advantage of offering refined control, with an optimized setting of the desired temperature inside and the times during which the device must operate.

Smart heaters

The heating, although little used in this season, is also in the line of sight.

The use of a connected thermostat can reduce the heating bill by 15 to 20% according to Ademe.

With these devices, it is above all a question of avoiding unnecessary heating periods by adjusting them in relation to the presence of occupants in the dwelling, but also, on their lifestyle.

Engie even goes so far as to offer the installation of connected thermostats with its Mon Pilotage Elec offer, accessible to all consumers regardless of their supplier.

With this solution, Engie is primarily targeting owners of “toasters”, the old models of electric heaters that consume the most energy and whose yields are quite low.

Utilities have in-house solutions, but there are also independent brands.

Netatmo, or Somfy also offer connected valves for electric radiators, intended to control each of its devices.

Other solutions exist, both at Engie and at EDF, suitable for all types of heating.

It is also possible to install or equip your own boiler with a connected thermostat.

Several brands offer this type of product, Netatmo or Delta Dore, for example.

Before starting, it is better to check that it is possible to connect your boiler to such a thermostat.

Heat pumps are also connected and the objective is always the same: to optimize use.

For renovation or new construction projects, it is better to opt for connected devices from the outset: boilers, radiators, hot water tanks... all these devices can be controlled remotely.

The main advantage of these solutions is their ease of use.

It is much easier to program the heating time of your electric radiators room by room from the smartphone application than from the radiators themselves.

Almost all manufacturers offer this type of solution.

And the French are not to be outdone in the field, with in particular Muller, Thermor, or even Acova.

Bulbs and more broadly, connected lighting are part of the smart home arsenal.

Whether or not they are accompanied by a motion detector, the main advantage of connected lighting is that it can be controlled remotely.

This allows, for example, to turn off from your smartphone the lamps that you would have left on inadvertently...

Source: lefigaro

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