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Apple enables smart home apps to cut your electricity bills
A new Apple framework makes it easy for developers of smart home apps to help cut your electricity bills. While...
Some smart home devices can already help you reduce power usage and costs, like the Ecobee and Nest thermostats, but EnergyKit takes this much further … Third, you can use smart devices which are able to detect when your electricity supplier is offering cheaper rates, and shift usage to the cheapest times. Similarly, a smart app controlling your AC system could dial back the cooling a little when electricity costs are high, and boost it when rates fall.
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