Driving your home with connected objects, for many of us, it’s a project that makes you want. But is home automation really a good investment? For you, we have gathered the best ideas to make your connect objects profitable and make maximum savings, in the short or medium term. Heating, hot water consumption, standby devices. There are many ways to optimize, program and control at a lower cost. Ready to try the home automation adventure?
Detect What Consumes The Most
To save money, is it better to lower the heating a few degrees in the bathroom all day or turn it on fully when you use it and turn it off the rest of the time? Is it better to turn on the oven to reheat the meal or use the microwave? Mute the box at night or switch off the TV standby when it is off? Difficult to know in absolute terms. But with connected objects, you can measure and compare everything.
If you have a centralized home automation installation with a box that takes all of your connected objects into account, like the Enki box, you can view in real-time or retrospectively the impact of your decisions on your invoices. But you can also decide to connect a particular device to a connected outlet to monitor its consumption.
So, you can focus your efforts on the most energy-consuming objects, either by limiting the slots of use or by replacing them for more economical versions.
Control Your Overall Heating
How to lower your bills while ensuring comfort at home? A figure can shed some light: 1 ° less at home means 7% savings on the bill! It is, therefore, worth it to optimize its heating.
With a connected heating installation, whether it is central heating or isolated radiators, you can program your heating to be hot only when necessary. Thus, it is hot when you are at home but you save when you are at work by cutting the heating. Are you stuck in traffic jams? Are you coming home earlier from the weekend? From your smartphone, you regulate the temperature in real-time. Is your teen not coming home tonight? No need to heat your room for nothing, you can turn off the radiator from the sofa of your friends where you dine.
There are many home automation boxes but not all of them are compatible with objects from other brands. The Leroy Merlin Enki box allows you to centralize the management of 120 products from more than 20 different brands! An investment of 109 € that simplifies your life.
Control Room By Room
Unlike previous regulation systems, home automation control of heating and electricity allows fine regulation, room by room and in real-time. Much better than simple programming! When you’re in the living room watching TV, there’s no need to leave the lights on in the bedrooms. Similarly, if it is pleasant to enjoy 23 ° C in the bathroom when taking a shower, a temperature of 17 ° C is quite sufficient in the room for the rest of the day.
With your box, you can program room by room of course and according to the hours of the day but you can also modify the options from your smartphone in real-time or even directly by voice. You, therefore, combine ideal programming and the inevitable unforeseen events of daily life with great flexibility. Long live home automation!
Disconnect Devices From Standby
This is a gesture that requires no sacrifice of comfort and saves money. On average, by switching your devices on standby, you will earn € 80 per year. TV, hi-fi system, speaker … To switch off standby for sure, just add a module to your connected socket so that it cuts the power automatically. You no longer have to think about it. An investment that quickly pays for itself.
Limit Hot Water Consumption
In terms of home automation, there are great classics such as heating, cameras and alarms, locks, lighting … And then there are also new ones such as the connected showerhead.
The principle is very simple: as you consume hot water, the color of the showerhead changes to finish in the red. A good way to realize in real-time what you consume and a fun way for children to limit their water consumption. For an investment of less than 90 €, you realize nearly 200 € savings per year (average calculated for a family of 4 people).
Similarly, with a connected water heater that optimizes the heating periods according to your lifestyle, you can save up to 70%! The calculation is quick, year after year, you lower your bills.
The Subscription To Control Costs
Are you convinced of the interest of connected objects but you hesitate to invest? The Zen and connected subscription are made for you. Developed by Leroy Merlin, this subscription allows you to smooth the costs of your equipment to ensure you avoid unpleasant surprises.
You define the connected objects you need and you commit to at least 1 year, from € 9.90 per month. If your needs change, you can, of course, adjust your subscription and add connected objects. In the event of a breakdown, repair or replacement of the faulty product is included in your subscription.
The equipment has become obsolete? You can migrate to more efficient home automation equipment. No bad surprise, you control your budget as you control the rest of the house.
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