Prepare Your Smart Home For Wildfire Season

We’re officially in the dog days of summer – successive days of high temperatures, increased power consumption to battle the heat, and maxed out power grids. Unfortunately, that also means we're getting closer to wildfire season here in Southern California. It's the new normal for outages to occur, whether they are planned or unexpected.

Incorporating an energy storage system into your California smart home is beneficial for your entire family to mitigate the inconvenience and safety issues associated with power failures.

Read below to learn how incorporating this smart home solution can help you remain safe and comfortable year-round.

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The Benefits

Whether you have decided to integrate solar power into your California home or not, incorporating a home energy storage system can lower your electricity bills, reduce your energy footprint and keep you safe during blackouts and brownouts.

While your electricity is on, an energy storage system converts excess AC electricity to DC electricity for storage. In situations where the power grid is down, that DC electricity is converted back to AC electricity for your use.

The Sonnen eco and ecoLinx provide California homeowners with independence and flexibility. In less than 100 milliseconds, outages are detected, and battery power is switched on – that’s less time than it takes to blink! In addition to responding to outages, the eco and ecoLinx let homeowners select where to direct power. This is essential for long term outages because chilling your wine collection may be a more significant priority to you than powering your home theater, or perhaps you want to manually operate your shades instead of sending power to your motorized window treatments during extensive outages. It’s your call.

Fighting Unreliable Power

From 2006 to 2016, La Cañada Flintridge experienced 2,371 power outages, according to a Southern California Edison report. The La Cañada Valley Sun reported that while improvements had been made on power grids in recent years, outages still occurred with a combined 2.7 million minutes of planned and unplanned outages in 2019. Power outages are inevitable in this area, so why not prepare your smart home for the expected?

How Personal Technology Can Help You Stay Safe and Comfortable

Since 2004, we have made strides to provide our clients with the best in customer service and intuitive smart home solutions. Contact us today to explore the possibilities of energy storage systems and prepare yourself, and your home, for the future.