October is Energy Awareness Month! Join Sensi in celebrating with some simple ways to save energy around your home.  

It’s that time of year…leaves start to change, football season officially kicks off and kids head back to school. Inevitably our schedules become busier, and more time is spent away from home. We’re here with some simple tips to help you effortlessly manage your heating and cooling a little smarter to save you time and energy too!  

Summer is officially here. With temps on the rise, your air conditioner may be working overtime. Sensi has a few tips to ensure your HVAC unit is operating efficiently.  

Sensi Touch is now available in silver. It’s the same, award-winning smart thermostat you know, now in a sleek and striking silver color.  

Sensi smart thermostats have improved our scheduling feature with a more modern user interface—making it easier to schedule temperatures on your thermostat than ever before.

Sensi smart thermostats have received the 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy for the second consecutive year. Sensi was the first smart thermostat to receive the honor in 2020.  

If you’re not prepared in advance, extreme weather events can lead to unexpectedly high bills. Find ways to save energy with your Sensi smart thermostat.

One of the many benefits of having a Sensi smart thermostat is creating a more energy efficient home leading to greater environmental sustainability and cost savings.

It’s easier than ever to control the comfort of your home and keep your heating and cooling equipment functioning at peak performance. Sensi smart thermostat in-app tools and alerts deliver the information you need to maintain your HVAC equipment and spot any potential disruptions in service before they escalate into bigger, more costly issues. 

The readers of PC Magazine have named Sensi the Best Smart Thermostat of 2020. This recognition speaks volumes for Sensi and our commitment to continuously striving for innovation and customer satisfaction.  

You asked and we heard you! Now you have the ability to set your preferences on the brightness of your Sensi touch screen. 

With Sleep Mode, you are in control of the brightness of the screen and how long it takes before going “to sleep”. You also can pick what is displayed on the screen in Sleep Mode. 

We’ve partnered with our friends at Filtrete™ Brand on some tips for proper filter maintenance that can help you optimize HVAC performance while improving air quality. From 3M, Filtrete Brand has been manufacturing air filters for almost 25 years and is the most trusted filter brand in America**.  

Sensi was featured in a new episode of Lifetime TV's Designing Spaces. The theme of the show was highlighting how homeowners could make smart and energy-saving upgrades to their home.

During a time when staying and working from home has become the new normal, we are getting the opportunity to try out our smart home gadgets and handheld devices more than ever before. Families are now using iPads not only for entertainment but for their jobs and schoolwork too.  

There’s a good chance that your local utility is running a demand response program and you may be eligible to participate. With increasing sales of smart thermostats, DR programs are also rising in popularity. But what are these programs exactly?  

Sensi is the first smart thermostat brand to be named ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. This award is the highest level of recognition by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and honors organizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency achievements.

Josh Massey, HVAC Manager for the University of Dayton, manages the day-to-day HVAC operations and service requests for the Catholic research university in Ohio. “I'm the first one who sees it when a call for service comes in. I report my findings and then assign the technician that's going to go out and service the equipment.” Comprised of ten dormitories and four hundred homes, Josh’s territory involves answering a wide range of service calls and distributing a force of over a dozen technicians to handle those issues. 

A five-day weekend is any student’s dream, but that dream can turn into a nightmare for school facilities administrators. “Our teachers went home one Thanksgiving break, and the majority of our thermostats were on hold at a temperature much warmer than they needed to be with no one in the building.That’s when I decided that we needed to go to a system where I could control it from one vantage point.”

Sensi Multiple Thermostat Manager is excited to announce the release of our newest feature; Partial Keypad Lockout. Now available for owners of Sensi Smart Thermostat, Partial Keypad Lockout enables managers to lock user-access of Sensi at the thermostat to a subset of features. 

Hosting the perfect holiday gathering takes a lot of planning and preparation. Even the most experienced party planner may overlook one vital consideration: the temperature. Comfort plays a critical role in sustaining a successful holiday get-together.

Our latest survey shows temperature plays a critical role in maintaining high spirits during holiday gatherings. From prepping the perfect playlist to cooking a delicious meal, a lot of preparation and detail goes into planning a holiday get-together and making sure your guests have a good time. Unfortunately, all that hard work can be undone by something as simple as the temperature in your home.

Combining the power and functionality of your Sensi thermostat with your smart home platform of choice—whether it’s Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit™, Samsung SmartThings or Wink—creates a seamless, simplified smart home experience. And now you can use your Sensi app to detect and select smart integrations compatible with your Sensi thermostat. You can even use the app to begin connecting and syncing to your smart home system of choice.

Continuing our commitment to providing our customers a wide range of smart home integration options, we’ve added Samsung SmartThings home automation platform to our growing list of technology partners—including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit™ and Wink.

The air flowing inside your home can be up to five times as polluted as the air outside. Household standards like paint, furniture, carpet, air fresheners, toys, pets and more can degrade the air quality significantly. Poor air quality increases the effects of allergies and asthma, leads to poor sleep and reduces overall health.

HVAC management before Sensi Multiple Thermostat Manager was costly and ineffective for school facility manager Randy Reeves of Washington County School District in Utah. Randy’s HVAC units hummed along all day, keeping empty classrooms warm long after students and faculty had left.

Sensi is committed to continuously evolving and upgrading your Sensi app, adding features designed to improve and streamline your app experience.

Technology is changing everything. The ways in which we interact, spend free time, reveal the gender of our babies, and do business have all shifted in this new age of technology at our fingertips. But not everything has evolved at the same rate.

Combining the power and functionality of your Sensi thermostat with your smart home platform of choice—whether it’s Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit™ or Wink—creates a seamless, simplified smart home experience. And now you can use your Sensi app to detect and select smart integrations compatible with your Sensi thermostat.

Packaged Terminal Air Conditioning units and Mini Splits have come a long way over the years, becoming more efficient on both the heating and the cooling side. One of the biggest evolutions in PTAC technology, specifically, is the dawn of inverter units. Inverter-type PTAC units offer variable modes so that, rather than running on just one setting, the units can run at one-half or one-quarter capacity to both save energy and maintain room comfort.

As the seasons change so do habits around maintaining your home’s comfort. And in the busyness of life, it’s easy to be surprised by a sudden fluctuation in utility bills, or wonder how hard your HVAC system is working to heat or cool your home.

Emerson earns distinguished ENERGY STAR® certification for Sensi Thermostats and continues to make a long-term commitment to helping save HVAC energy cost for millions of Americans.

On this blog, we’ve introduced you to Julie and Christian, members of our Customer Support Team so you could get to know the people you’ll be speaking with should you ever need support with your Sensi™ Smart Thermostats. In this series, you’ll meet the Sensi Creative Marketing Team and get to know the visionaries behind the messaging, imagery, colors, and personality that help to define the Sensi thermostat brand.

When it comes to improving the comfort and air quality of your home, circulation is key. Air movement allows you to regulate temperature, so you can maintain comfort and reduce energy costs. It also helps to prevent the buildup of dust particles, mold and other debris that can contribute to a stuffy environment. Does someone in your home suffer from allergies? Air circulation can reduce irritation and help everyone breathe easier.

Don't let the cooler weather heat up your utility bills. Winter is coming. The time of year that even the most ardent cold weather fan starts to dread because watching the numbers on the daily weather temperature forecast go down often results in the numbers on your utility bill going up. But, there are steps you can take now that can help to reduce your energy usage while still keeping your family warm and cozy during the cold winter months ahead.

Situated on a sprawling campus of over fifty acres and nestled in between a quiet golf course and a residential community, Lutheran North High School has been a mainstay in suburban St. Louis, MO for over sixty years. For twenty of those years, Tim Brackman has spent time as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, and now, principal. 

Prior to joining the Sensi Support Team as a Customer Experience Analyst, Julie studied Computer Management and Japanese and is known to periodically chatter with fellow agents in Japanese. When she’s not helping customers to set up their Sensi thermostat or troubleshooting complicated heating and cooling systems, Julie enjoys writing fiction novels, playing video games and spending time with her husband and four cats.  

We’re proud to be one of the first Alexa thermostats to work directly with Amazon to give our customers an additional layer of ease to control their home comfort. Learn how your Sensi™ Smart Thermostat works with Amazon Alexa and its mobile app. 

Find the right temperature for sleep and get back on a healthy track

Having problems falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night, and experiencing difficulty getting back to sleep? You’re not alone. While most people are able to adjust their sleep patterns within a few days of the time change, others struggle to get even a few hours of quality sleep.

Christian has his Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and is also completely self-taught in Japanese. In his free time, he likes to watch movies and television shows, build PCs, play video games, watch anime, and read science fiction and fantasy books. 

Are new connected home automation products worth the cost and effort?

New consumer research* reports that three in 10 Internet users now own at least one connected home device. Of those, nine in 10 would recommend the technology and 87% said these types of products made their lives easier. 44% of non-adopters listed price as their biggest impediment to purchasing connected home products.

Use this Wi-Fi thermostat checklist to find your perfect match. You’ve read all the news stories about smart home products. You learned about the benefits of home automation. And you see many of your friends bragging about their connected gadgets. So you’ve finally decided to take the plunge into a connected home.

Automation tips with Wink Robots for even more control of your home comfort. In 2015, we announced that Sensi™ Smart Thermostats now work with Wink smart home platform so you can control your favorite thermostat along with your lights, locks, garage door, and other Wink-compatible smart home products right from your Wink app.

Smart home gifts to grow dad’s connected castle
Do you know a dad that is interested in starting or growing his connected castle? The connected home category is expanding rapidly which makes it easy to find a thoughtful smart home gift for every type of dad. Explore the variety of home automation products that speak directly to some of the challenging roles and personas that many dads have to assume.

Sensi thermostat settings and features can save energy and protect HVAC equipment. The Sensi mobile app has several features and advanced thermostat settings. These features allow you to customize your schedules to maximize your home comfort, become more energy efficient and protect HVAC equipment.

Remote thermostat access from across the room or across the country gives you unprecedented control of your home comfort. It also helps you control home energy use to reduce energy waste and save big on heating and cooling bills.

Access Sensi and all your smart home features in one place with HomeKit. Both the Sensi™ Touch Smart Thermostat and the Sensi™ Smart Thermostat were designed for seamless Apple HomeKit™ thermostat integration. With HomeKit you can do things like tell Siri to “set the temperature to 72 degrees”, shut your garage door or turn off the lights—all through the Home app on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.

When it comes to making your home comfortable, style is major a factor. It’s not only about how you and your loved ones feel, but also about the way your environment looks. Even the tiniest visual details affect the ambiance of a room. 

School is still out for winter break. Did you prepare accordingly? You can start by adjusting your Sensi™ Smart Thermostats’ schedule or temperature set points to make sure you’re not freezing everyone out of the house now that the family is home during the day. (If you’re lucky enough to be heading to warmer climates, be sure to set a vacation schedule and use these other tips to save money at home while you’re gone.)

Tips for optimizing indoor home humidity levels. Indoor home humidity levels are usually more of a concern to homeowners in the summer when the high level of moisture in the air can make it feel clingy and sticky. But the low humidity that occurs in winter with the lower temperatures is of equal concern. The lack of moisture in the winter air is what makes it feel crisp and clean, but also dry.

Expanding on existing integrations with connected platforms, Sensi thermostats now work with the Google assistant so you can easily control your home comfort using simple voice commands. Ask any device with the Google Assistant built-in – like Google Home or Google Home Mini – what your Sensi thermostat is set to, increase the temperature, switch heating or cooling modes and more.