Benefits of Honeycomb Smart Shades

For anyone who builds or renovates a house, energy efficiency is a key factor. From insulation to location, the way you build a house can have a direct impact on the amount of energy used. While a passive house, which can stay comfortable in all seasons without the use of active heating or cooling systems, can be an ambitious goal for many people, there is something relatively simple that you can add to your home to help you. to passively control your honeycomb blinds

1. Convenience:

Honeycomb blinds can be opened and closed simply by touching a button, remote control or application on a Smart Shade. Window coverings are a proven way to reduce solar gain and prevent heat loss. If they are so easy to open and close, you will probably remember those best for you and your environment. In addition, the ability to set schedules to open and close them at specific times means you never have to worry about them.

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2. Energy saving:

Connecting the honeycomb blinds to a smart residential center can help reduce the amount of energy used by your HVAC system by allowing them to respond independently to the readings of the temperature and sunlight sensors also connected to the smart center. Therefore, the blinds will know when to close during the hottest part of the day to reduce the use of the heating, ventilation or air conditioning system or if they should be opened during a sunny day in winter to allow the sun to warm a room naturally.

3. Integration of smart homes:

Intelligent thermostats have a large amount of data to determine whether opening or closing smart blinds will help reduce energy consumption, such as time of day, weather and temperature. At home. By using all these data points, the thermostat can detect a room that gets too hot and closes the blinds instead of turning on the air conditioning or do the opposite when you know that a room is colder than it is. Should be

4. Intelligent lighting:

Combined with intelligent lighting, honeycomb blinds can help maximize the amount of daylight in your home to reduce electricity consumption. For example, opening the blinds can activate the deactivation of intelligent lighting and vice versa.

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5. Add the R-value:

Even without intelligence, honeycomb blinds can add significant insulating value to your windows. Traditional roller and honeycomb blinds have an R-value of 4.3. (A typical double-glazed window has an R-value of 2.0). You can also get motorized curtains that will add an insulating layer to your windows.

6. Safety:

As all parents know, the lack of cables with honeycomb blinds is an important asset for safety. You will not have to worry about keeping them out of reach of your children. However, in a smart home, the blinds can also offer additional security benefits. Lutron blinds will connect to the Nest Protect smoke detector so they open automatically when a fire is detected inside, allowing emergency services to see the house.

7. Security:

By remotely controlling or setting a schedule that makes someone feel at home, smart blinds can help deceive would-be thieves to believe a house is occupied. Similarly, when connected to an intelligent home system, the blinds can be closed when the occupants leave and open when they return, thanks to geographic protection and a Smart Shade.

Compared to many energy-saving solutions for renovation or recent construction, installation of honeycomb blinds are a relatively inexpensive way to control solar gain and heat loss in a home. This makes it something that any green builder or any potential green the owner should seriously consider. In addition, the integration of intelligent technology increases the capacity of honeycomb blinds to reduce energy consumption and is an excellent example of how a smart home can be used to protect our planet.