Showing posts with label smart home appliances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart home appliances. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Energy Efficient Lighting Approach to get a Smart Home
We currently are in a place and time where everyone is important for the amount of energy they consume. Sustainability has hence become a global concern, and a major attention has shifted towards energy efficient solutions. This is not just good for humanity as a whole, but you would also directly enjoy a reduction in your energy bills.
LED Bulbs
LED bulbs operate at an efficiency rate of up to 90 %. Many other bulbs offer efficiency of just 20 % and waste the rest of the 80 % of energy by converting it into heat. LED's can be found in many forms including G9 light bulbs and hence can be used in a number of different situations.
Halogen Bulbs
Halogen bulbs are quite well known to be energy saving light bulbs. There is a separate category of these bulbs known as energy saving halogen bulbs, which are fine-tuned to cut down your energy expenses.
Daylight Bulbs
Many other bulbs offer efficiency of just 20 % and waste the rest of the 80 % of energy by converting it into heat. Halogen bulbs are quite well known to be energy saving light bulbs. There is a separate category of these bulbs known as energy saving halogen bulbs, which are fine-tuned to cut down your energy expenses. By switching over to energy saving halogen bulbs you could enjoy a staggering 40 % of savings on your energy bills. These bulbs produce a "whiter" light when compared to the yellow hues given off by incandescent bulbs.
To compensate for this lack of light, you could use daylight G9 light bulbs. These bulbs produce a "whiter" light when compared to the yellow hues given off by incandescent bulbs. Those work spaces of visual artists have a great need for daylight bulbs as it would enable the artists to view all colors as they would under normal light.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Smart Home Appliances
There are appliances that will network directly with your home wireless network without the need for fancy technologies or "bridges" like the Z-Wave bridges, or special gateways for communication. Using one app like Revolv and another like the LG ThinQ will let you keep track of your whole home system pretty easily and monitor energy usage, system settings and home security without compromising cost or convenience. The last thing anyone wants to do is have an extreme number of apps, logins buttons to find to control their Smart Home.
The important thing to remember with these major brand appliances is that they work via your WiFi connection in the house and NOT through the z-wave technology your outlets, lights, sinks, doors and security might communicate via. This just makes networking them into one larger smart home a little bit more difficult, but in no way impossible to do.
Using one app like Revolv and another like the LG ThinQ will let you keep track of your whole home system pretty easily and monitor energy usage, system settings and home security without compromising cost or convenience. The last thing anyone wants to do is have an extreme number of apps, logins buttons to find to control their Smart Home.
There are appliances that will network directly with your home wireless network without the need for fancy technologies or "bridges" like the Z-Wave bridges, or special gateways for communication. Smart TVs have been around for a while, using either a wi-fi or hardwired connection to communicate with Apps such as Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Hulu etc. Same thing for game consoles, the PS3 and PS4, XBox and Wii all will connect to the internet and stream movies, music and TV shows for you.
Fridges can now keep track of their temperatures, the items in them, their power and door alarms, and if necessary they can send you an email alert or "nudge" to remind you that they need attention. GE has an oven that will network and allow you to preheat it, change temperature and set cook times through an app should the need arise while Whirlpool has a washer and dryer set that can be monitored, started or stopped remotely. LG Even has a fridge that keeps track of expiration dates, helps write a grocery list and can network with it's same brand oven to get it cooking or preheated temperatures right for that brand new recipe you always wanted to try.
Samsung, Whirlpool and several competitors have recently released "Smart Appliances." These appliances monitor their own power usage, cycles and temperatures while sending your phone or tablet updates and information about what they are doing or the attention they need.
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