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Înfruntă vara cu VIKI: Optimizarea utilizării energiei în casa ta pe timp de varăFace the summer with VIKI: Optimizing energy use in your home during the summer

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As summer makes its presence felt, efficient energy management becomes essential to maintaining a comfortable and economical environment. VIKI, the intelligent home automation system, offers innovative solutions for the efficient use of air conditioning and shade management, keeping the home cool without excessive consumption.

Techniques for efficient use of air conditioning
1. Intelligent air conditioning programming: VIKI allows air conditioning to be programmed according to the tenants’ daily routine. In fact, it does more than that. VIKI turns on the air conditioning by itself according to the daily routine of the occupants, thanks to the artificial intelligence system that makes it unique. Thus, the system automatically turns on and off the air conditioner at the optimal times, avoiding unnecessary operation when the house is empty. This not only saves energy, but also ensures a pleasant environment when you return home.
2. Temperature monitoring and adjustment: Using temperature sensors strategically placed throughout the home, VIKI constantly monitors indoor conditions. If it detects temperature fluctuations or overheated areas, it automatically adjusts the air conditioning settings to ensure even and efficient cooling.
3. Remote control: By integrating with mobile devices, VIKI allows easy air conditioning control from wherever you are. This way, you can set the air conditioner to start before you get home, ensuring that a cool atmosphere greets you.

Shading management for energy efficiency
1. Automating the shading system: VIKI manages blinds and roller blinds depending on the position of the sun and the outside temperature. The system connects to the weather service to anticipate weather conditions and adjust the shading accordingly, protecting the home from overheating.
2. Sun position detection: Using the geodetic coordinates of the windows and information from the weather station, VIKI calculates when and how much to shade the windows. This prevents heat from building up inside, thus reducing the need to use the air conditioner at full blast.
3. Adaptive daylight management: VIKI can adjust the degree of shading of Venetian blinds to allow an optimal amount of daylight while maintaining a comfortable interior temperature. This helps to reduce the use of electricity for lighting and cooling, respectively to create a pleasant indoor environment.

During the summer, efficient energy management is crucial to maintaining comfort and saving resources. VIKI offers advanced solutions for optimal use of air conditioning and shade management, ensuring a cool and energy efficient home. The adoption of smart home technologies not only brings economic benefits, but also contributes to a sustainable and comfortable lifestyle.

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Shelly: A new technology for implementing the VIKI system in any home

“We want a smart home, but we don’t want to break walls and install cables everywhere” – this is the objection we most often encounter from customers, when we propose the VIKI system for their already finished houses. The next objection is the one related to the budget, which can be quite high, when we choose the implementation with wired technologies (KNX, DALI etc.). Continue reading “Shelly: A new technology for implementing the VIKI system in any home” »

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VIKI + HEMS = LOVE

New steps have been made in the development of the HEMS mode in the VIKI application, in the past weeks – the communication interfaces with the new energy producers and consumers have been created. We are rapidly developing the concept of HEMS – Home Energy Management System, crucial for self-sustaining homes, which we mentioned in previous articles.

HEMS – Home Energy Management System includes both the hardware (equipment) and the software that manages the flow of energy production and consumption, allowing the user to monitor consumption, but also their own energy production (where it exists), respectively to control, manually or automatically, the energy consumption of the house. In the end, we want a house capable of managing its energy as well as possible, consuming as much of its own production as possible, so that the total cost of external energy resources consumed is minimal. Continue reading “VIKI + HEMS = LOVE” »

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Restarting the VIKI home server

Restarting the VIKI server application regularly leads to a more stable working environment and a better operation of the VIKI SERVER application. Periodic restarts also protect the system from unforeseen shutdowns, and this maintenance operation can be done easily, without requiring the presence of a specialist from the VIKI support team.

The option is available in the VIKI client application – settings section. Continue reading “Restarting the VIKI home server” »

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VIKI and the urban garden. How to manage a green balcony in the city

We continue the series “VIKI in real life” and this time we present a garden in Cluj-Napoca, located on the terrace of an apartment, managed entirely by the automatic irrigation system implemented in VIKI.

We wrote a lot about what VIKI can do, about the ways it can make our lives easier, about how it protects our house, about how it ensures the desired comfort and much more. But it is important to actually see what a house equipped with the VIKI automation system looks like in everyday life, so we take another look at our customers’ homes. Continue reading “VIKI and the urban garden. How to manage a green balcony in the city” »

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What do you do when your Smart HOME warranty expires?

The strength of the VIKI system is the ability to learn the habits of the inhabitants of the house and to adapt to their preferences, without the need for outside intervention, for settings. Specifically, the VIKI AI automatically reconfigures all settings when family preferences change.

However, if customers prefer VIKI specialists to intervene physically in their locations and provide support for equipment installed in the house, we have launched post-warranty maintenance plans, designed to support customers older than 2 years.

All VIKI users are granted assistance included in the sale price for the first two years of using the product. And after this time, they can choose maintenance packages, depending on their needs and preferences. Continue reading “What do you do when your Smart HOME warranty expires?” »

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Want to know how much it costs to build your smart home? You can configure it yourself, on the VIKI website

Smart homes were once called the homes of the future, but they can no longer be considered a distant dream, because they are already present in the lives of many people – and their number is growing. And VIKI’s intelligence has constantly developed over the last 5 years, automating our customers’ homes, increasing their comfort, energy savings and the pleasure of living in a space that is constantly adapting to their needs.

One of the first questions received by our team from smart home enthusiasts is: how much does the VIKI system cost?
The answer is not so easy to give, as each house has its own features – number of rooms, halls, bathrooms, terraces etc. – and every homeowner can see their home automation differently. The price of a home automation system is influenced by several aspects, such as the number of equipment needed, what kind of technologies we choose, what we want to automate – because we can choose several facilities offered by VIKI. Continue reading “Want to know how much it costs to build your smart home? You can configure it yourself, on the VIKI website” »

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Home Energy Management Systems: The HEMS module integrated with VIKI home

Considering the increasingly harsh impact on climate of the emissions from fossil fuel energy, in the near future every home will have to integrate a smart management of its resources and energy consumption. From this premise we started with the VIKI team in the development of the module we are currently working on, respectively an algorithm for the management of energy producers and consumers, in a smart home.

The question we want to answer is: how can we manage the energy to be consumed in the smartest way, at the lowest possible cost for the user?

Continue reading “Home Energy Management Systems: The HEMS module integrated with VIKI home” »
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