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The Top 5 Energy Saving Technologies for under Β£500

Did you know, the average house spends Β£1,264 a year on their gas and electric bills?*

According to an Ofgem study in 2013, energy bills are rising at a faster rate than household income!

Here are new innovative ways, from five different companies, to reduce your bills and save you pounds – without the hassle of switching suppliers or looking for better deals.

*(Source: BBC)

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Energy saving technologies

The bright and beautiful English summer has just sprung upon us and everyone is keen to get outside, light the barbeque and crack open a couple of beers.

Then before you know it festive money-sucking Christmas lights will decorate your home, the central heating will be on the rise and so will your bills.

So it’s time to introduce the top five energy saving products, all for under Β£500, so you can stress less about your bills and more about what to buy your loved ones at Christmas.

You can start by simply changing the lamps in your home from incandescent to LED light bulbs and you will easily save incredible amounts of energy and money.

β€˜Megaman UK,’ have extended their LED series to include a new range called β€˜IncandaLED,’ a new and innovative range, which comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, features a direct replacement for incandescent lights.

They have all the aesthetics of a traditional bright and luminescent lamp but cut maintenance cost, power consumption and reduce heat emissions.

The bulbs last 50,000 hours and save you up to 80% on your energy bills!

So now you can look towards a brighter future with www.megamanuk.com

Being able to monitor your energy usage is definitely effective in helping to save you money.

β€˜Efergy Energy’ has a wide range of energy saving products, so you can manage your usage and reduce unnecessary costs.

Their wireless electricity monitors help you to understand, presently and historically, exactly how much energy you are using and the price you will pay.

By purchasing the engage kit for just under Β£60, you can view your home energy consumption anytime, anywhere!

Efergy also sell energy monitoring plug sockets which are managed by a remote control – perfect for hard to reach plugs such as microwaves, TVs and computers – saving you time, effort, electricity and money.

For more information about Efergy’s effective and cheap product range, please visit www.efergy.com.

If you’re really passionate about energy saving, or you’d just like to see those pounds pile up in your bank account, rather than on your bills, you shouldn’t hesitate to check out www.sust-it.net.

They provide a huge variety of energy efficient products; from kitchen appliances, entertainment technology to energy saving lighting and even cars! So you can live cost effectively all year round.

Their website enables you to view and compare the prices of products and find out how much each one will save you.

You could save Β£100’s per year, resulting in you reducing 1000’s kg of CO2! Sust-it is simply efficient shopping.

There are washing machines to suit every mother’s needs and TV’s to keep your children occupied – so you can keep the family home going for hours – without the extra cost.

When it comes to our energy bills, 25% of the cost is easily leaked through the roofs and walls in our homes, simply by heat escaping.

But I bet you didn’t know sheep are useful for preventing that from happening.

Now I don’t mean that you should go out and kidnap a bunch of sheep from local farms, to insulate your home!

I’m talking about β€˜Chimney Sheep,’ a low tech and quirky way of insulating your chimney, to keep the heat inside – perfect for big old Victorian houses that get cold very easily.

The product, made from 100% Herdwick wool, from sheep who have thick coats, works by being a little bit bigger than the flue, so it can grip onto the sides and hold itself in place.

Visit www.chimneysheep.co.uk to stop your money from escaping through your chimney.

Keeping the heat in is one thing but constantly heating your whole house is a waste, especially if some rooms aren’t used as much as others.

With the Heat Genius system you can monitor your heat through the app on your smartphone (or any web device) and effectively save Β£250 per year!

The product works by replacing your existing thermostat with the supplied Heat Genius boiler controller to manage your heating.

β€˜Footprint Mode’ schedules your heating automatically and the digital thermostat learns when you normally use a particular room in the house to ensure the radiator is turned off for the rest of the time.

It even knows how long the room takes to warm up so it can start to preheat ready for your arrival.

Now that’s what I call a warm welcome!

Check out www.heatgenius.co.uk for more intelligent information.

There are no more excuses as to why you can’t enjoy all four seasons with these products.

Think about it, by purchasing any of the above products now you can save extra money to put towards the bank-rinsing Christmas period or that wonderful holiday you’ve been dreaming of.

Don’t be an energy saving sceptic – put your house on the energy efficient diet now and watch your bills shrink!

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Comparison: Heat Genius vs. iQE Halo

What’s good about iQE Halo?
iQE Halo is a simple way to control your heating and hot water, either from your smartphone or a portable control panel that you can move around your home. It comes with several parts: the iQE Gateway 370b, iQE Temperature Sensor ES301, the iQE Relay Switch SR302 and iQE Halo Display Unit 310.

What’s better about Heat Genius?
iQE Halo is quite similar to our base system (the Genius Hub), which lets you control your boiler from any web device such as a tablet or smartphone.

The big advantage with Heat Genius is that you don’t have to settle with just switching your boiler off when you’re out – with our system you can add wireless radiator valves to control individual rooms and save even more energy. Even more funky: add wireless motion sensors and the system will learn when you use each room of your house and schedule the radiator automatically!

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Heat Genius vs. Nest

What’s good about Nest?

Nest lets you control your boiler from your smartphone, and it also learns when you’re normally home so it’s nice and warm when you get home. Plus it’s also really shiny!

What’s better about Heat Genius?

The big advantage of Heat Genius is that you can add wireless radiator valves to control individual radiators. So you can save even more energy by only heating the rooms you’re actually using.

Heat Genius can learn too: not just when you’re at home like Nest can, but also when you normally use each room of your house. All you need to do is add wireless motion sensors and the system can then schedule each radiator completely automatically.

We realise how important it is to keep your personal data private, and we go to great lengths to keep it that way. All your data is stored locally or encrypted, so even we can’t access it – if you’d like our support team to take a look at something, you’ll need to give them a password.

So to put it simply: Heat Genius might not be quite as shiny, but it does so much more.

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Heat Genius vs. Hive

What’s good about British Gas’ Hive?
Hive Active Heating lets you remote control your heating via the web and they’ve got a funky smartphone app too. It’s from a big company (British Gas), it’s received pretty good reviews and it’s a few quid cheaper than Heat Genius. We’re sure it would save you some money off your heating bills, because it makes it easy to turn your heating off when you go out.

What’s better about Heat Genius?
Our Genius Hub offers very similar functionality to Hive; it lets you turn your boiler on and off from your smartphone or any web device. The major advantage of Heat Genius is that you can add wireless radiator valves to control individual radiators. So you can save even more energy by only heating the rooms you’re actually using.

Even better than that, you can add wireless motion sensors to enable “Footprint mode”: the system will learn when you normally use each room and schedule the radiator to come on, completely automatically!

So to put it simply: spend a few extra quid on the Genius Hub and then you’ll always have the option to upgrade your system, save more energy and have the most advanced home heating control system available.

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Heat Genius vs. Honeywell Evohome

What’s good about the Honeywell Evohome?
International thermostat giant Honeywell have recently launched a zoned heating controller, which lets you control each radiator in your home. Honeywell claim impressive savings of up to 40% off your heating bill.

What’s better about Heat Genius?
To be honest, they’ve both got pretty similar functionality and will both save you significant amounts of energy. Heat Genius offers one big advantage, though: fully automatic operation! By adding a motion sensor in each room, the system can learn when you normally use that room and schedule the radiator to come on so that the room’s warm when you arrive.

The base system is exactly the same price as the evohome, but you’ll always have the option to add additional sensors and valves to enable the fully automatic “Footprint” mode. Sure, it’s fun to program your radiators from your phone; but if you have better things to do, Heat Genius is the system for you!

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A customer reviews our system on Recombu [VIDEO]

One of our customers, Adam Burgess, spoke to Recombu about how he’s using Heat Genius to bring his heating under control:

Adam says that Heat Genius has made it a lot easier to control his heating and reduce his bills:

β€œI’ve now managed to get all of my rooms under full control so the temperature is now comfortable everywhere, and when I need to adjust it temporarily I can do enough to tweak the temperature up or down if there’s something different going on in the house.

β€œI’ve been using it to finally gain control without just running the boiler permanently on, which is what I used to do. It hasn’t necessarily reduced my cost but I’ve got all the rooms now at the right temperature without having to run around adjusting everything massively.”

Read the full review on Recombu for all the details.

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The Warm & Healthy Homes Show

Would you like to see the future of energy saving homes?

Heat Genius will be featured at the centre of the “Heat Your Home” Zone of the Warm & Healthy Homes Show.

The show will give you a chance to get hands on with the Heat Genius system, alongside products from Vaillant, Panasonic, Nest and Ariston.

There’s plenty to see and do, and 4 other Zones covering everything you need for a warm and healthy home:

  • Insulate Your Home: doors, windows and insulation
  • Power Your Home: electricity and micro generation
  • Light Your Home: lighting and controls
  • Home Improvement Clinic: professional services including design and finance

Entry is completely FREE, with free parking and is near Longton train station.

See you there!

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If Siri could see, would she care for me?

Apple recently revealed their interest in using motion sensors to observe users’ normal patterns of behaviour and provide better care for the elderly. Their proposed system takes account of the context, such as time, as well as behaviour – so it can do things like reminding somebody to take medication half an hour after eating breakfast.

It’s an excellent niche market, because it’s easy to imagine how such a system could be useful enough to justify the cost of the hardware. But in the future, most households will adopt motion sensors for the same reason they’re currently beginning to embrace smart home technology in general: to save energy.

Energy saving is the ‘killer app’ of home automation, because as well as the geeky pleasure of being able to remote control your house from the pub, it offers significant financial savings that easily justify the investment. Systems like British Gas’ Hive are already gaining popularity, but it’s more advanced systems such as Heat Genius that are leading the way by incorporating ‘zoning’ and motion detection.

How does it work? Put simply, Heat Genius learns when you use each room of your house and automatically control each radiators so that the room’s only heated when you’re going to use it. Of course there’s always the option to manually override the system from any web device, this unique fully automatic mode means turns it into a ‘fit and forget’ option. Ideal for the elderly, or indeed anybody with better things to do than reprogramming heating schedules.

Heat Genius will offer an open API, so others are sure to build on the system to offer additional functionality without the expense of new hardware. Obvious additional services include intrusion detection and security monitoring, or care monitoring services for the elderly and vulnerable. By the time Apple gets around to designing their new granny-friendly iHome, they might well have some upstart competitors who got there first.

Heat Genius team