HAI recently published this pie chart, which shows the breakdown of energy usage in a typical home.
Our home automation systems are able to greatly reduce usage in each area. Here's a breakdown of each system:
Heating & Cooling: By automating your thermostat, we can program your system to heat and cool the house while you are home, and go into energy saving mode while you are out or on vacation. This can easily reduce your heating and cooling energy costs by 15% or more. Your cost on the thermostats is typically recouped in under 6 months.
Lighting: We can have lights automatically turn off when you leave the home, greatly reducing your
usage. Also, by
dimming your lights to 75%, you are saving 25% in energy. This will quickly add up over time.
Appliance and Water Heater Control: Using HAI load control modules, controlled outlets, and relays we are able to automatically turn off these devices when you are away from the home.
"Go Green" custom programming: We have started offering a button on clients touch screens called "Go Green". Pressing this button will lower your thermostats 2 degrees, and dim any lights that are on 10%. This gives you an instant house-wide energy savings of about 15%. When pressed a second time, the thermostats drop another 2 degrees and the lights dim another 10%.
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