Fancy saving up to 30% on your energy bill without much effort at all? By integrating Smappee and Home Connect, you can use off-peak energy or solar energy in a much smarter way – and these two systems can do the hard work for you. Here’s how it all works.

What is Home Connect?

Home Connect is an app that lets you easily control a wide range of connected appliances in your home, including products from Bosch, Siemens and Gaggenau. These smart home appliances include fridges, freezers, coffee machines, hobs, dishwashers, washers, dryers and more.

What is Smappee?

Smappee offers smart energy monitoring and management solutions. In this case we’re talking about Smappee Infinity, which can be used for easy smart energy control and dynamic load balancing in your home.

How do Home Connect and Smappee integrate?

This is somewhat up to you and what you have connected in your home, but integration can be set up for connected washers, dryers, washer-dryer combos and dishwashers. Once you have your Smappee app and Home Connect app connected, you’ll be able to create settings that drive your appliances in a more energy-efficient way. Here are some examples.

Example one: Sweet breakfast savings

You could choose to schedule your smart dishwasher to run between 10pm and 6am to optimise for off-peak energy. The integrated system will run the dishwasher in this timeframe with the lowest available energy tariff, so you’ll wake up to sparkling coffee mugs and lower energy costs.

Example two: Sun-powered clean clothes

You could also choose to schedule your smart washer-dryer to run between, say, 9am and 3pm while you’re at work. The integrated system can trigger the washer-dryer when maximum solar use is available to minimise energy usage and costs, and you can arrive home to clean, dry clothes.

Because Smappee Infinity provides transparent energy data on an appliance level, you can see exactly how much you’re saving in real time via the Smappee app. Not only is it satisfying to see how much energy and money you’re saving over each billing period, but nasty surprises can also become a thing of the past when it comes to energy bills. More appliances are expected to be added to the Home Connect network as time goes on, so the potential for energy and cost savings is set to grow even further.

What else can be done with Smappee Infinity?

Smappee Infinity is exciting because you can build on it in a way that suits your lifestyle and home. You could add electric vehicle (EV) charging to power your car via maximum solar energy and minimum energy tariffs. You could install a home battery, and program its use in the Smappee app to further minimise your household energy bills. You could potentially even be paid for the use of your battery during peak demand periods via a virtual power plant (VPP) program. There are some really exciting possibilities with Smappee, and these are only set to grow because the system is designed to be modular and future-proof.

How do you get Smappee Infinity installed?

We’d love to help you create a connected home system that suits the way you live, minimises your energy costs and unlocks these exciting technologies. Contact us to get started, wherever you live in Australia.