Celebrate Earth Day with Smart Home Upgrades
Earth Day is on April 22, and we want to celebrate our environment. We’ve put together a list of the most energy-efficient smart home upgrades to help you reduce wasteful energy expenditures in your home, and simultaneously reduce your energy costs.
Best Energy-Efficient Smart Home Upgrades for 2026
The best energy-efficient smart home upgrades this year focus on high-consumption devices. While reducing wasteful energy use is helpful, it’s most productive to target higher-energy-consuming appliances and products in the home. Below is a list of the most impactful smart home upgrades.
- Smart Thermostats – By not heating or cooling your home when you’re gone, you can easily save hundreds of dollars a year. Smart thermostats let you set temperatures when you’re away from home, and they even learn your routines to help avoid heating or cooling your home when it’s empty.
- Smart Plugs and Smart Power Strips – Even when devices, such as TVs and computers, appear off, but remain plugged in, they can quickly become costly energy vampires. Smart plugs and power strips let you quickly cut power to devices when they are not in use, helping avoid this costly energy drain.
- Smart Lighting and Smart Sensors – Replace lightbulbs with LED smart bulbs to quickly schedule lights to turn on and off, dim and even activate when sensors sense motion. Smart lighting and smart sensors are also excellent options when you’re traveling, out of town or don’t want to come home to a dark house. You can often control all of these settings via an app, whether you’re at home or away.
- Smart Blinds and Shades – If you live in an area that gets robust sunshine, you’re lucky! However, sometimes all that warm sunlight can quickly heat up homes, costing you a small fortune in AC. Smart blinds can easily help regulate indoor temperatures year-round and also greatly reduce the taxing load on HVAC systems.
- Heat Pump Water Heaters – A heat pump water heater is far more efficient than a gas or electric resistance hot water heater, using about 70% less energy and can save hundreds of dollars in annual energy costs. Before implementing this smart home upgrade, check federal and South Carolina state rebates for installing these energy-efficient water heaters in your home.
Enhance Your Smart Home Upgrades with HomeSmart
Home Telecom can help boost your energy-efficient smart home upgrades with HomeSmart. HomeSmart lets you easily control your home security, video monitoring, locks, lights, water protection notifications and HVAC/heating systems through our convenient app. To learn more about HomeSmart from Home Telecom, visit us at https://www.homesc.com/homesmart.
