Smart homes effect on your carbon footprint by Noah Wasserman
Electric lighting consumes 19% of total global electricity production. Smart lighting saves up to 50% of energy consumption. Many smart lights detect the motion in the room. The great thing about these lights are that they can be controlled completely by your cell phone. If you are a forgetful person and remember that you did not turn off the lights before you left the house, they don’t have to be left on until your arrival, but instead can be turned off with just a tap of your finger. (Philips Hue lights cost $200)
In the average American home, heating and cooling accounts for half of your energy consumption. Smart thermostats are a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. The smart thermostats purpose is to detect the home's overall temperature and adjust accordingly. This makes sure there is no energy being wasted. Motion sensors work alongside the thermostat, providing information about which areas in the household are being occupied and adjusts whether or not that specific area needs to be heated or cooled.
Smart power strips are a great way to decrease our energy usage. Unlike typical power strips, they detect if a device is no longer in use such as a television. Many people leave their phones to charge overnight. Even though the phone could be fully charged within an hour after plugging it in, it will still receive power for another eight hours or so. Other devices that use power, even if they are in standby mode, include video game consoles and computers.
Lastly, smart windows decrease our carbon footprint as well. The glass within these windows use electrochromic technology to change color when an electric current is applied, giving it the ability to control the amount of light and heat that can pass through into a room. This technology is quite new and is not being used in most homes being built today.
Overall, smart homes are a great advantage not just to the environment, but to us as well. They allow you to get tasks done quicker and worry-free. This technology decreases your energy bill along with your carbon footprint.
Why are smart light bulbs so expensive?
How many of us charge our phones overnight?
Does anyone have any smart technology in their house?
http://www.greenhome.com/blog/how-smart-home-technology-can-reduce-your-carbon-footprint
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I charge my phone every night because I want to use it for the next day. I'd rather have a full charge than have it die throughout my day. ~Gray Daitch
ReplyDeleteI think this will be worth the investment because it reduces your carbon footprint tremendously.
ReplyDelete-Ashley Herman
I charge my phone every night but I have a portable charger that I use which can sense when my phone is done charging.
ReplyDelete- Noah Brockmann
I feel as if this is worth the cost especially with some of the features they come with. Even better as it reduces carbon footprint -caroline
ReplyDeleteI charge my phone overnight just so I'll have it for the next day.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty hard to break away from the habit of charging my phone overnight that uses up a lot of energy - but I might willing to break the habit to save some energy
ReplyDelete-Ashlyn Sisterman
The best thing to do is to use our phones a little less often than we usually do so we can help use less electricity. -Jeffrey
ReplyDeleteI charge my phone at night because i ride the bus in the morning and want my phone fully charged for the morning Brandon Mckinley
ReplyDeleteWe need to make sure that when we charge our devices that we aren't polluting the air
ReplyDeleteThat is very true. We need to be very cautious of what we are exactly doing with our energy consumption. Also, we need to wok on new ways we can improve it.
Delete- Noah Wasserman
I sometimes charge my phone at night if i don't i bring my charger and charge it at school. -kennedy
ReplyDeleteI think smart light bulbs are expensive because they have a different process to create them.
ReplyDeleteThey have a different system that requires from more circuits. - BERTO
I don't have any smart technology but it would be helpful because sometimes I forget to turn off my light or other lights - Jason
ReplyDeletesmart homes can help us not waste energy by simply leaving lights on by accident or leaving your phone charging over night by double checking making sure you arent wasting energy
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