The first step in good energy management is to be well informed about the amount of electricity you use and/or produce. Niko Home Control gives you detailed insights on your energy resources and what it is used for. Then, it uses this data to optimise your energy efficiency.
Measure your energy consumption and production
With the user-friendly Niko Home app it is easy to interpret detailed data, whether it is consumption or production of energy. You can choose to view real-time insights or have an overview of the past days, weeks or months.
As such, you can easily identify the appliances that consume a lot of energy and replace them with more energy-efficient ones.
You can pinpoint potential problems if there is excessive or unusual usage, for example, when the door of your freezer has been left open.
This will help you avoid nasty surprises on your energy bill.
Install measurement modules
You can get an overview of your home energy consumption by installing energy measurement modules, wire clamps and pulse counters.
These will give you insights into every energy flow and historical data in the Niko Home app, like your solar production, heat pump consumption, EV-charger and many more.
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
By monitoring your main consumption and the yield of your solar panel production, you’ll be able to see how much of your own generated solar energy is injected back into the grid.
You’ll be able to see what your total solar panel production has been and compare how much energy you have used yourself on the one hand, and how much has been injected back into the grid, on the other.
Niko Home Control offers the possibility to connect to many Solar Panel systems. Discover them in our Niko Home Control ecosystem.
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 at home, you can arrange for Niko Home Control to charge your EV or boost your heating/cooling system and other appliances 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 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.
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