3 Hidden Benefits of Smart Home Technology
Outside of greater comfort and convenience at home, have you considered what else smart technology has to offer?
Smart home technology offers a whole new way for you to interact with your Salt Lake City, UT, home. If you have friends and family with smart homes, you may have already seen how smart devices and home automation can simplify daily tasks and routines, making your home a more comfortable and safer place. But if you’re considering smart technology for yourself, we encourage you to think outside the box at some of the lesser-known benefits that can add value to your life. Keep reading to learn how smart tech advantages contribute to three significant areas of your life: your wallet, your well-being, and your well-earned free time!
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1. Energy Efficiency
Smart lighting, climate control systems, and window treatments can all work individually or together to help you regulate energy usage in your home. A smart thermostat adapts to your routines and automatically adjusts the indoor temperature based on the time of day, the weather outside, and whether you’re at work or home. When you integrate your climate control system with motorized window blinds, your thermostat can trigger the shades to raise or lower based on the temperature in the house. With your smart technology playing a more active role in regulating the indoor climate, your HVAC system won’t have to work as hard.
Smart lighting is an underrated and overlooked way to save more energy at home. With dimmable LED bulbs, you can adjust your lighting to a comfortable level without wasting excess energy, and dimming features extend the lifetime of your bulbs. Schedules and remote access help ensure that you’re only using your lights when you need to be. Set a schedule that automatically turns off any lights after leaving the house for the day. And you can use your smartphone app to access the home lighting system at any time and turn off stray lights remotely. There’s nothing worse than coming home from a week-long vacation and realizing the front hall light has been eating up energy the entire time. With lighting control, you will never have to worry about that again.
2. Health and Wellness
While we’re on the subject of lighting, did you know the right lighting in your home can drastically affect your mood, energy levels, and sleep cycle? Dynamic tunable lighting is one of the hottest trends in health and wellness. A tunable lighting system allows you to change the color temperature of your indoor lighting throughout the day. Adjust your home office lights to a cool white tone to stimulate focus, energy, and concentration while you’re working. In the evening, set the living room lights to give off a warm amber glow to help you wind down, relax, and prepare for sleep.
While you can adjust tunable lighting manually to match your mood or set a certain ambiance, you can reap greater health benefits from automating your lights. In an automated system, tunable lighting mimics the tone and intensity of sunlight during the day. Since our bodies’ internal clocks move in harmony with natural lighting, tunable lighting helps keep our circadian rhythms in balance.
3. More Time in the Day
There just aren’t enough hours in the day. At one point or another, we’ve all uttered that phrase during a busy week. But smart technology can help you reclaim the time you lose performing mundane daily tasks and routines.
For example, how much time do you spend getting your day started? What if you could create a single command that automates music playing in the bedroom, the window blinds in the living room rolling up, and the smart coffeemaker powering on as soon as your alarm goes off. Dance your way into the shower and have hot coffee waiting when you get out. When you leave for work, don’t rush around closing all the window shades and flipping off lights — use a few taps on your smartphone app to turn off the lights, close the window blinds, arm the security system, and adjust the thermostat within seconds. Now you can spend a few extra minutes listening to your favorite podcast on the drive into work.
Argenta is your local Salt Lake City, UT, expert for smart home technology solutions. If you’re ready to discuss a new home technology project, call us at 801-996-3146 or fill out a contact form online. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
