Improve Your Indoor Air Quality

2 Ways a Smart Thermostat Can Improve your Indoor Air Quality

There are two aspects to improving your indoor air quality. The first is keeping humidity at acceptable levels. The second is reducing the concentration of indoor air pollutants. The primary way you can achieve this is with a modern HVAC system with a  smart thermostat . An efficient HVAC system with a smart thermostat can go a long way in helping you to improve your indoor air quality.

What is a smart thermostat?

A  smart thermostat  is a more advanced option to the programmable thermostat. It allows you to set and change the temperature and ventilation speeds remotely. You can also program your preferred temperatures for different times of the day, and it offers even more functionality.

Because of these additional functionalities, investing in a smart thermostat makes sense when you consider how it can help to improve your indoor air quality.

How a smart thermostat improves your indoor air quality

The main way that a  smart thermostat  improves indoor air quality is through its ability to make auto environmental adjustments. This means regulating your indoor humidity and pollutant levels.

1. Regulates indoor air humidity to prevent mold and make it more comfortable for you
Air humidity is one of the factors that affect your indoor air quality. If your humidity is too high, you can cause mold to start growing in your building. With a smart thermostat, you can program a comfortable humidity rate when you’re at home, and set it to go even lower when you’re not. The requirements for winter and summer will be different, but you can quickly adjust with a smart thermostat, even if you’re not home.

But, in addition to setting it yourself, your smart thermostat can detect these changes. When it does that, it can then automatically adjust to improve the humidity levels. With a smart thermostat, regulating your indoor humidity becomes much easier.

2. Boosts your ventilation rate to remove indoor pollutants
With a smart thermostat, you can remotely set and change your ventilation speed whether you’re in a business or residential building. You can set it to increase the ventilation rate when the concentration of toxins and indoor air pollutants gets too high. The ventilation system through the thermostat can then adjust downwards once you’ve recycled in enough cleaner air.

These auto-environmental adjustments, plus the energy efficiency of most smart thermostats make it easy for one to start protecting their health indoors. You can see how important a smart thermostat is for an efficient HVAC system and why you should  invest in one  sooner rather than later.

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