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A Primer on Smart Appliances

1. Lower Home Energy Bills

2. Cost-Efficient Trips to the Store or Online Shopping

3. Lower Your Food Bills and Shop Efficiently

4. Get Appliance Maintenance Reminders and Failure Alerts

5. Monitor Energy Use

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Discover the Top 5 Ways to Save with Smart Appliances

5 min readUpdated Aug. 23, 2024Terry MehilosKitchen Appliances
Discover the Top 5 Ways to Save with Smart Appliances

Welcome to Sears Home Services. Our mission is to guide you in exploring the top 5 ways to save money with smart appliances. In this article, we dive into how these electricity-saving devices can help you cut costs and enhance energy efficiency. We're going to discuss everything from the energy-saving features of smart appliances to tips on cost-effective maintenance and home management. Discover how you can lower your utility bills while enjoying the convenience and cutting-edge technology that smart appliances offer. Let's unveil the top 5 ways to save money with smart appliances.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Smart appliances continue to evolve and provide you with new and better ways to efficiently manage your home and save money.
  • Learn about ways you can save money by using features built into your smart appliance to help with energy savings and efficient shopping.
  • Find new smart appliances to help make your home more efficient on our Sears.com Upgrade page.

A Primer on Smart Appliances

Smart appliances are revolutionizing our homes by making them more efficient, comfortable, and interconnected. These appliances are outfitted with advanced technology and internet connectivity, allowing them to interact with other devices in your home, offering immense benefits to homeowners.

You can find smart technology in all sorts of home appliances, including refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, washers and dryers that come with Wi-Fi capabilities.

Smart appliances make it easier to manage your household chores from anywhere. Simply download the app to your smartphone, and you can control your smart devices remotely, put them on a schedule, connect them to a smart speaker (hello, Alexa!), or even set them up to perform actions on their own.

Smart appliances simplify daily tasks. Imagine preheating your oven while commuting back from work, or triggering a laundry cycle with a simple voice command.

By monitoring usage and giving you more control over your energy use, smart home devices can be your secret weapon for saving.

Here are the top 5 ways smart home appliances can save you money.

1. Lower Home Energy Bills

Smart home appliances are packed with numerous features designed to save energy and lower your utility bills. These clever electronics conserve water and electricity — while also washing and drying clothes and dishes faster and better.

Whether you’re using your smart thermostat to optimize your home’s temperature, or put the water heater on vacation setting while you’re away, all that saved energy translates to lower utility bills.

Take a smart HVAC thermostat, for example, which can reduce heating and cooling costs from 10 to 25 percent simply by providing you with more control over your home’s temperature. Not only can you avoid blasting the AC or heat all day when nobody’s home, the smart system will turn the unit back on before you get home, so the house is perfectly cooled (or warmed) upon your arrival.

You can also save money on your power bill by scheduling your smart appliances to run when you want — and avoid peak pricing hours for electricity.

2. Cost-Efficient Trips to the Store or Online Shopping

Having a smart appliance saves you trips to the store or online shopping websites to replace frequently used household items like filters, detergent and dryer sheets. Working with Amazon Dash Replenishment, your connected dishwasher, washer or dryer monitors product levels in your connected devices and automatically reorders more before you even know that you need them. It’s practically magic.

To set up Dash Replenishment (which works with Alexa), activate the service through the appliance’s Smart App using your Amazon account. Then just select the laundry detergent, dishwasher pods, rinse aid or dryer sheets you want to automatically reorder — and never run out of these essentials again.

3. Lower Your Food Bills and Shop Efficiently

Some smart refrigerators now use an AI system that automatically recognizes and manages items inside the fridge to help you with and cooking. You can view inside your smart fridge to inventory items on your smart phone or tablet remotely. Order needed items easily online or pick them up from the store on the way home. You’ll save both time and money when managing shopping with your smart fridge.

A smart refrigerator also lowers your grocery bills by keeping food fresher longer and reducing food waste. With digital temperature controls that can be adjusted from anywhere, along with alerts that let you know when the door has been accidentally left open, smart refrigerators help extend the shelf life of fruits, veggies and beyond, saving you money while helping you conserve energy.

4. Get Appliance Maintenance Reminders and Failure Alerts

Many smart appliances diagnose themselves when there’s an issue, which helps prevent unnecessary service and simplifies maintenance. It’s not uncommon for things to break, but unlike a conventional appliance, which only gives you notice that something is wrong once the problem has advanced (like when you’ve got a wet load of clean laundry and the dryer won’t start), smart appliances are designed to alert you when something is not functioning as it should.

An alert sent to your phone gives you the advantage of getting ahead of the problem, and fixing a small issue tends to be a lot less expensive than fixing a big one. You can take action immediately to resolve the problem or schedule service to repair your appliance quickly if necessary.

Reminders for routine maintenance like changing filters also keep your appliances performing at their best. You can also get reminders to schedule yearly professional maintenance to keep all of your home appliances in top shape and lasting longer.

5. Monitor Energy Use

Have you ever had a high power bill catch you completely off guard? Maybe you left your air conditioner running on full blast all day and night, or accidentally left the refrigerator door open.

It can be frustrating when there’s no good way to monitor energy usage in real-time. That’s where having smart appliances comes in handy. Not only can you track energy usage — whether you’re home or away — but your smart app will also be able to tell which appliances are on and when. You can cut out energy waste by remotely monitoring appliance energy use.

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Glossary Terms

Wattage is the measure of electrical power expressed in watts (W), indicating the rate at which a device consumes energy.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel used primarily for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. It's a hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting mainly of methane, but it also contains smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and sometimes sulfur compounds.

A washer screw is a fastening device that combines a screw and a washer, designed to distribute the load of a screwed fastening more evenly and to prevent the screw from loosening under vibration.

A voltage meter, commonly referred to as a voltmeter, is an instrument used for measuring the electrical potential difference, or voltage, between two points in an electrical or electronic circuit.

Common Appliance Symptoms

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer won't stop filling are a clogged water valve, a bad water-level pressure switch, or a malfunctioning electronic control board.

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer won't spin or drain are a seized gearcase, a broken motor, or a failed door switch.

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer won't turn off are a malfunctioning electronic control board, broken motor or a jammed door lock assembly.

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer won't start cycle are a malfunctioning electronic control board, jammed door lock assembly or a faulty user interface.

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer vibrates are a damaged suspension rod, malfunctioning electronic control board or a dead fan.

The most common reasons your Whirlpool washer is experiencing the rinse cycle not working are a broken lid switch, a bad water-level pressure switch, or a malfunctioning electronic control board.