Imagine the perfect thermostat: one that always has the right temperature—never too hot or too cold.
With the current smart home technology, manufacturers have revolutionized the way HVAC units function and operate on a day to day basis. From home automation systems, smart thermostats, and energy efficient models, smart home technology has greatly increased the overall level of comfort homeowners can now experience.
What is Smart Home Technology?
Smart home technology is simply a home automation system that works through an interconnected network of devices, such as computers, tablets, or smartphones. Through the use of your personal devices you can control your indoor and outdoor lighting, as well as thermostat scheduling (by installing a smart thermostat), and even your home’s security system.
The Benefits of Smart Home Integration for an HVAC System
Integrating your HVAC system with smart home technology will offer homeowners benefits by the bunch. Benefits include enhanced control over your appliances and systems, allowing you to tailor them to your needs. Additionally, smart home systems focus on energy efficiency, leading to savings and an overall lower carbon footprint. Read on for a comprehensive breakdown of the many benefits smart home integration can provide!
Increased Energy Efficiency
Smart home technology greatly improves the efficiency of your HVAC system, as through its precise control, you are able to minimize unnecessary energy use. This holds especially true for a smart thermostat, which takes into account your day to day routine and alters your home’s heating and cooling around your habits. The best part: it leads to
direct savings on your energy bills, ranging from $50 to $800, depending on the model you’ve purchased.
Longer System Lifespan
When you spend a significant amount of money on a home appliance, you expect it to last a long time. Luckily, HVAC systems that are integrated with smart homes tend to last longer, as the smart technology can prevent overuse, and help pinpoint maintenance and service needs long before they become a problem.
Home Automation
Implementing home appliances like a smart thermostat allows for greater temperature control and scheduling, through home automation, which ensures maximum comfort and energy efficiency. The best part about it all, smart appliances such as a smart thermostat are always evolving and updating themselves automatically based on you and your family’s preferences and habits. So as you change, your smart thermostat will automatically change with you.
Unprecedented Control of Your HVAC System
Through smart home integration, controlling your HVAC system has never been as easy and precise. With custom-made apps created by manufacturers, homeowners are now able to access their HVAC system from anywhere, at any time. Smart home integration also allows homeowners to control the temperature of different parts of their home, allowing them to tailor their HVAC system to their specific needs.
Increased Comfort for the Family
Because smart home integration provides you with unparalleled control, that also means unprecedented comfort for you and your family. Say you’re out for dinner, you can pull out your phone and preheat or cool your home before you even arrive. And what’s more comfy than not having to get out of bed? With a smart home system, you never have to get out of bed to change the temperature. You’re too cold and too tired? Just use your phone to turn the heat up. With your smart home system, you can maintain the perfect temperature all year-around, and not just some ballpark estimate.
Cost Factor for Smart Home HVAC Integration
There is no set price for smart home integration for HVAC systems as prices can greatly differ depending on several different factors, such as system complexity, location, size of your home, your desired features, and installation fees. Read on to learn more about the cost factors associated with smart home systems.
Home Size
A larger home usually means a more complex HVAC system, which can greatly increase the cost of labor for installing a smart home system.
Installation
You could go ahead and DIY your smart home system, but we typically recommend you don’t, especially because sometimes these types of systems require a lot of wiring modifications.
Features
A system with more advanced features such as automated scheduling, remote control, and energy monitoring can greatly increase the price of your smart home system.
System Type
Something a little smaller like a smart thermostat will be significantly less expensive than a fully smart HVAC system that comes with multiple sensors, cooling zones, and more in depth control features.
Cost-Ranges
Below are some typical price ranges for smart appliances and smart home ecosystems.
- Smart Thermostat: $70 – $300
- Full Smart HVAC System (Basic): $1,000 – $2,000
- Full Smart HVAC System (Advanced): $2,000 – $4,000
Call a Professional
When it comes to your home, it’s important to hire a company you can trust, so lean on us. Here at CJS Heating and Air, we pride ourselves on providing trusted quality HVAC Services for your home—and your family. From maintenance, to repair services, all the way down to smart home integration, we treat every home we work on as if it were our own. Call us today!
