While you’re planning your home remodel, it’s a good time to consider adding some smart home features to increase your quality-of-life as well as energy efficiency in your newly upgraded home.
4 smart home features to consider in your home remodel
Smart Thermostat
The latest smart thermostats have become incredibly handy. They often are equipped with wi-fi, sensors, and machine learning technology. As such, they come with the ability to become remotely controlled from your phone so you can make changes on the go or set up schedules for the temperature changes.
However, the energy saving tips and features are usually what people care about most. Smart thermostats often come with movement sensors to detect when people are up and active in the house, built-in learning functions to make or suggest changes to temperature control schedules, weather tracking, and more.
Many of the manufacturers make bold claims about the amount of energy savings you can receive. How much you’ll save depends greatly on your current management of your thermostat and where you live. However, according to Consumer Reports, the average savings is about 8% annually. Coupled with the convenience, though, it makes it worthy of consideration for inclusion in your home remodel.
Smart lighting systems
Installing smart lighting during your home remodel allows you to personalize the lighting in your home to fit mood or activities, set schedules that fit your daily routines, and save on energy costs.
Smart lighting features include occupancy sensors that can turn lights on when you enter and turn off when you leave. There’s also the “all off” feature that you can utilize when leaving the house so you don’t have to check all the rooms to make sure a light wasn’t left on. Smart lighting are also usually able to integrate with other smart home features.
Again, the amount of energy savings reported varies but you can predict somewhere between 15-35% savings on your overall lighting costs.
Smart home security system
Smart home security systems allow you to check in and be in control of your system from anywhere using your smartphone, tablet, or laptop.
You’re able to get real-time alerts, see a live view from your cameras, save video recordings, and customize your security based on your specific wants and needs.
As a bonus, you can usually receive a savings on your insurance rate by 5% or more making this another worthwhile addition to your home remodel.
Smart home controller
If you plan on having several smart home features added during your home remodel, it likely makes sense to purchase a smart home controller of sorts that allows you to control all your smart home devices from one hub.
There are many manufacturers to consider and each have their own pros and cons. However, most of them allow you to control your thermostat, security system, lights, smart door locks, and entertainment devices. You can also create automated schedules for certain smart devices. Some of them can even listen for smoke alarms and glass breaking!
Why Daher Construction is a great choice for your smart home remodel
Daher Construction is Springfield, MO’s trusted contractor for home remodels because we partner with the best sub-contractors for all of areas of your home including smart home additions.
And once we start a job, we stay on that job site until it’s done. We don’t disappear for weeks at a time. While there can be unforeseen delays due to things like supply chain issues, we do our best to avoid them and advocate on your behalf to keep things moving. There’s a reason we are one of the most highly-rated general contractors in the area.
