The first step to good energy management is to be well informed as to how much electricity you use and/or produce. Niko Home Control gives you detailed insights into where your energy comes from and what it is used for, and then uses this data to optimise your energy efficiency.
Measure your energy consumption
Niko Home Control informs you of your electricity, gas and water consumption. You can choose to view real-time insights or have an overview of the past days, weeks or months. You can even monitor the energy consumption of specific devices in your home to identify less energy-efficient devices or trace potential problems. With the user-friendly Niko Home app it is easy to interpret the detailed data.
You don’t have a digital energy meter? Install measurement modules for bus wiring
If you don’t have a digital meter, you can still get an overview of your energy consumption by installing energy measurement modules, wire clamps and pulse counters. These will give you the same overview in the Niko Home app.
This is only available for bus wiring.
Monitor the consumption of specific devices
To really discover where you can save, you need to know the precise energy consumption of different devices. Niko Home Control’s connected sockets and smart plugs will give you this information.
In this way, you can easily identify the appliances that consume a lot of energy and replace them with more energy-efficient ones. And pinpoint potential problems if there is excessive or unusual usage, like when the door of the freezer has been left open. This will help you avoid nasty surprises on your energy bill.
Measure your energy production
While knowing - and managing - your energy consumption is important, it’s equally vital to have a good understanding of how much electricity your solar panels produce, if you have them.
An overview of your solar energy
Thanks to the connection with the digital meter, you’ll be able to see how much of your own generated solar energy is injected back into the grid. And if you connect your installation to your SMA Sunny Boy or Sunny Tripower converter (from after 2015), you’ll have even more information. You can also use a measuring module for bus wiring to measure the yield of your solar panels.
You’ll be able to see what your total solar panel production has been, how much energy you have used yourself and how much has been injected back into the grid.
Optimise the use of your solar energy
Once you know what happens with your free solar energy, you’ll be able to manage where and when this energy should be used.
You can choose to receive smart energy alerts in the Niko Home app when there is overproduction. If you are at home, you can manually start appliances such as the washing machine, dryer or dishwasher, but if you are not, you can arrange for Niko Home Control to do this for you via the solar mode.
Smart energy notifications
Having insights into your energy consumption and production is important, but what if you don’t want to consult these insights all the time? With Niko Home Control you don’t have to, as it monitors your energy flows for you.
Smart energy alerts for abnormal consumption
Thanks to Niko Home Control's smart alerts, you have 24/7 monitoring of your home and appliances. For example, you will receive notifications via the Niko Home app when abnormal electricity or gas consumption occurs. This helps prevent unpleasant surprises on your energy bill.
You trace snooze consumption or broken devices, for instance when you notice that your freezer is using no energy at all. Or avoid extra costs, as you’ll be notified when you might cause a peak.
Keep an eye on your solar panels
You can also choose to be notified when your solar panels produce more energy than you are using at any one time. When that happens, you can choose to activate appliances like your dish washer or start charging your electric bike.
And when your solar panels are not producing energy, you can choose to receive an alert, because that might mean that something is wrong with them.
If you are at home, you can manually start appliances such as the washing machine, dryer or dishwasher, but if you are not, you can arrange for Niko Home Control to do this for you. The solar mode routine of Niko Home Control ensures connected devices are automatically activated when there is overproduction of solar energy. This increases self-consumption and reduces your distribution costs.
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