Thermostats, they're not just for simply controlling your cooling and heating anymore. From creating different schedules for every day of the week and monitoring from anywhere with your smartphone to controlling your home's comfort with just the sound of your voice, today's thermostats aren't like those you grew up with. They are Wi-Fi enabled thermostats.
Keep reading to check out the top 5 reasons you should replace your home's thermostat with a new smart thermostat.
1. Reduce Your Home's Energy Usage
If you're looking for a way to save money on your home's cooling and heating costs, then you must have a Wi-Fi thermostat. Products like the Honeywell Lyric T5 Wi-Fi Thermostat help lower your energy bills with features like:
- Geofencing: Using your phone's location, the thermostat can increase your home's temperature, so you aren't needlessly cooling while the house is empty before turning the air back on so it's comfortable when you return.
- Adaptive Operation: Over time, the thermostat will learn your heating and cooling preferences and will begin to automatically provide you the right temperature all the time.
- Vacation Mode: When you're going to be away from home for an extended time, simply let the thermostat know so that it can enter its energy-saving mode, and you won't be cooling or heating while you're on the beach somewhere.
2. Control It With The Sound of Your Voice
Sure, operating your thermostat via your smartphone or tablet is great, but what if you could make it even easier? Well if you have a home assistant like Amazon Alexa you could be operating it just by speaking.
With products like the Aprilaire Universal Color Touch Screen Wi-Fi Thermostat you can use the sound of your voice to adjust your home's temperature, set a schedule, change between cooling and heating, and much more.
3. Easier to Install Than You Think
I know, you hear Wi-Fi thermostat and see all they can do, installing one must be complicated right? Good news, they're not.
If you're even minimally home maintenance inclined, installing a smart thermostat like the Nest Learning Thermostat can be done in as little as 30 minutes. With all the parts required for installation included with the unit, there's no going back and forth to the hardware store. If you need additional assistance, Nest's support network is available to help walk you through the process.
4. Operates More Than Just Heating and Cooling
Cooling and heating your home is great but that's not all you can do with a smart thermostat. With the Aprilaire 8620W Wi-Fi Thermostat you can control all of your home's comfort solutions in one central location.
This professionally installed thermostat is able to stay in contact with and control and monitor your home's Aprilaire whole-house air purifier plus on of either your Aprilaire whole-house dehumidifier, Aprilaire humidifier, or Aprilaire ventilation system.
5. Real-Time Notifications
We've already touched a little on how you can control a smart thermostat with your phone or even sometimes your voice. That's not where the functionality ends though. One of the commonly overlooked but impressive features is the ability to receive real-time notifications about the status of your home's heating and cooling system.
A thermostat, like the Lyric Round 2nd Generation Wi-Fi Thermostat, will send push notifications directly to your phone for issues such as when your home's humidity changes, if the temperature is too hot or too cold, when it's time to replace your filters and more.
Want to Learn More?
If this post has gotten you thinking about adding a smart thermostat to your home and you want more information, we've got you covered. Head on over to our Thermostat Knowledge Center and check out some great resources like our Thermostat Buying Guide, How Thermostats Work, and much more.
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