Smart working and home consumption

How to reconcile things

The word “smart working” has gone crazy in all the newspapers and media. With the emergency situation that has devastated the entire globe, smart working has allowed many people to continue working from home, without losing the pace and especially (in serious cases) the job. After explaining in detail how to make your home suitable for smart working, let’s go one step further. How can smart working not alter home consumption ?

Since our life has been concentrated mainly in the home, it is natural that consumption has increased. But today, at Realigro, we want to explain how smart working can prevent you from exceeding your household consumption. A guide that can really be useful for many, even after the end of this critical period. So, if you are ready, we can start !

The area : very bright !

As we have already anticipated in previous guides, in order to save on the bill, the first step is to choose an extremely bright environment. With the arrival of the beautiful days in fact, it would be just a useless waste of energy to give up natural light. And … have you ever thought about the balcony ? For the lucky ones, who have a balcony or a terrace where you can work (compatibly with their tasks) it will be really a pleasant saving!

Smart working and home consumption

Let’s go into detail now. What are the consumption that can be avoided ? In order to optimise your expenses and activate a best price policy, we recommend that you switch to LED bulbs. They will light up your home at a ridiculously low cost compared to the usual bulbs. Remember that, in principle, there are times when it is more convenient to use electricity. So make the most of even the cheapest hours. The bills will be lighter.

But that’s not all! Among the fundamental criteria, and which are often not taken into consideration, we remember the famous ”stand-by”. Especially for those who work in smart working, often use technologies such as computers that could waste energy unnecessarily. A good habit, therefore, is to switch off any modems and put their computers on stand-by. Or, if you are particularly careless, set the automatic shutdown.

Home automation and smart working

And if we talk about automatic… we can’t not talk about home automation!
Always an element of fundamental importance in new homes, even in this case, home automation can be useful. So let’s get to the heart of the union between real estate and smart working. Why home automation can really make a difference in a time when staying at home, even to work has become a must? Because, basically, staying at home implies a higher consumption of energy. This is why, in order to avoid that even indoor work can become expensive, every automation system must be exploited to the maximum.
Therefore, set up daily :

  • Heating with a maximum temperature level, after which the automatic switch-off takes place.
  • The boiler : like the condensing ones, if set correctly they will avoid an excessive waste and a reduction in the bill.
  • Household appliances: staying indoors also means realizing which appliances you use the most. So if you don’t need them, you can unplug some of them.

We also remind you that, in general, domotizing your home, or in any case monitor it, will allow you to fully understand both your needs, but also the consumption that can be avoided.

So, smart working it is! But without spending too much!


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