Tips From The Top

An integrated home system can benefit your bottom line and the environment.

For the past weeks we’ve been looking at ways an integrated home can reduce your energy use – reducing your overall energy spending and your home’s carbon footprint.

Let’s look specifically at how two of the product lines we use at Jackson Hole AV, Savant and Lutron, decrease the energy use of your home while maintaining your home’s overall comfort.

Savant – the elite system in home automation – offers you an elegant, integrated platform for total home management that you control from a single, intuitive app. Savant unifies and simplifies your home and your life. With varying levels of systems to fit any home, Savant offers the industry’s only Apple®-based control and automation solution to unify your entire home’s audio visual, lighting, climate, security, and communications systems.

Savant’s energy monitoring tools help reduce your home energy use in several key ways. These features – both automated and controllable – help you track your home’s overall energy use and make adjustments as necessary.

Lighting: Savant’s lighting system allows you to schedule scenes to dim lights, and turn them on and off. The integrated, intelligent lights are based on both motion and occupation sensors, and can sense sunlight as well, adjusting the lights to various factors. Need to change your lights (from anywhere within your home or outside)? Simply use the Savant app on your portable device.

Climate: Savant’s smart thermostat adjusts indoor climate and temperature automatically, and can regulate the thermostat according to outside temperatures. Need to keep your home cool and block that mid-afternoon sun? Savant’s window shades can automatically lower according to outdoor light. 

Home owners can also set points for room temperature based time of day, day of the week, or time of year, programming climate across the seasons.

The Savant app also allows home owners to monitor and adjust their home’s energy use from anywhere in the world, making changes as needed.

Another one of our top product lines, Lutron, has a long history offering energy-saving lighting solutions. Lutron’s dimming options reduce energy consumption while maintaining your home’s style and comfort.

Lutron’s elegantly-designed dimmers, shades, occupancy sensors, and entire home light control systems reduce energy use while enriching your home’s environment and overall comfort. Lutron’s eco-dim solutions automatically decrease energy use by 15% or more. Window shading helps control and take advantage of daylight to keep climate costs low.

Installing a Lutron home lighting system may qualify for federal and state rebates and other incentives from your utility company. 

To learn more about how smart home technology like Savant and Lutron can help you reduce your energy costs and your carbon footprint, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to show you what your home can do.