Smart Energy Management

Monitoring

Energy meters in the distribution board measure the whole home's consumption or individual circuits. The app shows daily, weekly and monthly graphs. Tracking how much goes on the air conditioning, the electric water heater or the oven is the quickest way to see which habits push the bill up.

Automatic cut-off

Sockets feeding devices that draw power on standby can be switched off when you leave or overnight. TV cabinets, games consoles and office equipment are typical examples. Things that must stay on, like the fridge and the router, are left out of the scene.

Scheduling

Loads such as the water heater, washing machine, dishwasher or EV charging can be shifted to certain hours. Turkey offers a multi-rate tariff with day, peak and night periods. If you are on it, moving heavy loads to the night period makes a difference on the bill.

Load management

Run the oven, air conditioning, washing machine and car charger at the same time and you may trip a breaker. Load management throttles or delays non-essential loads, such as EV charging, when total demand approaches a set limit.

On its own, energy management is a measuring tool. The savings mostly come from how it works with other systems:

• Heating that stops when a window opens and empty rooms dropping to eco mode are handled by smart climate control.
• Lights left on switching themselves off, and motion-sensing lighting, are the job of lighting control.
• Blinds lowering against the summer sun take load off the air conditioning.

So it makes more sense to treat energy management as a layer of your home automation than as a separate gadget. In a KNX home, energy meters can sit directly on the same bus.

In a new build, all it takes is leaving space in the distribution board and adding the meters to the board design. In an existing home you can start with compact meters retrofitted into the board, smart plugs and wireless relays. We check whether there is space in the board and how it is laid out during the survey.