Here’s How a Smart Air Conditioner Can Benefit Your Home

Whether you’re shopping for a new air conditioner or thinking of upgrading an older unit, switching to a Smart Air Conditioner can lower your energy bills and enhance your home environment. Read on to learn more about the benefits of switching over to a Smart AC.

Smart AC Advantages

Wi-Fi connectivity and better energy efficiency are two big reasons to switch to Smart AC. The features available in a smart unit can lower your cooling bill by keeping your home at the optimal temperature, day and night. Manual button-pushing becomes a thing of the past, as your Smart Air Conditioner can be programmed and monitored on your smartphone. It can also be fully integrated into a modern Smart Home network.

More Convenience

Home automation makes managing your cooling device as easy as reaching for your Android or iOS smartphone. By installing a simple app you can directly control the settings on your Smart AC unit whether you’re at home, at work or even while on vacation. It will also respond to voice commands through a Smart Home Hub.

Increased Comfort

Never too warm or too cool, your Smart AC unit can be programmed to monitor your indoor climate and automatically adapt to changes in temperature. The range of operating modes enables smart features to maintain a comfortable environment for any level of activity or while you’re sleeping.

Energy Saving

This is the big one; everyone wants to lower their cooling bill and Smart technology helps by reducing inefficiency. Smart AC offers precise control of your power usage, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from wherever you happen to be. Savings can vary depending on your local weather, tiered energy pricing, and how much time you spend at home.

Easy Maintenance

Your Smart App can give you status reports on the state of your unit, so you know when it’s time to clean or replace the filter or fine tune your settings for optimal performance. Depending on the app, you might see a control panel with usage details presented in charts and graphs.

Environment Friendly

You can’t always dictate the energy source (gas, oil, hydro-electric, renewables, etc.) entering your home, but Smart technology allows you to limit excess emissions resulting from waste and inefficiency. Smart Home devices in effect serve a broader conservation mission while legacy fuels are being replaced or phased out.

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Smart Air Conditioner Features

Smart AC features vary based on size, price range, manufacturer and other factors. Look for the features that best suit your needs and budget.

Scheduling

You can use your Smartphone App to program your Smart Air Conditioner days in advance, and modify it at your own discretion any time. For example, you can create a schedule based on your work/home hours, or coordinate it with the time-of-day pricing structure of your energy provider to help economize on consumption.

Geolocation

The app on your phone can track your location and tell your Smart AC when you’ve left the premises or are about to return. Your Smart AC will adjust accordingly to either raise or lower the temperature to optimize energy usage and your comfort level.

Smart Modes

Real savings can result through your Smart AC’s smart mode settings. Beyond the manual AC settings, Smart modes bring automation into play to help conserve energy. For example, once you’ve set your optimal room temperature, the Smart mode takes over and adjusts automatically for subtle variances due to changing outdoor conditions such as peak sunlight and nightfall.

DC Inverter Technology

A DC Inverter is at the heart of any Smart AC unit, differentiating it from the past generation. It makes the unit more cost-effective because of its low voltage start-up and higher efficiency. It also controls the speed of the compressor motor to continually regulate the temperature.

Smart Home Integration

Most Smart AC Apps are compatible with home networking hubs such as Amazon Echo (Alexa), Google Nest (Google), Apple HomeKit, or HomePod Mini (Siri). If you’ve already committed to one of these platforms as an Android or iOS user simply download the version of the app you need to run your Smart AC.

A Smart Air Conditioner offers more than just a better, more economical way to cool your home. It also marks your transition from the wired analog home to a Smart Home. If you haven’t started your Smart Home conversion yet, a Smart AC unit is a great entry point.