Heating your home in winter, when it is cold, is essential. Unfortunately, heating also means polluting. To resolve this case of ecological conscience, the tiko connected thermostat offers a solution that is, to say the least, clever.
If electricity is not the most polluting means of heating in winter (the prize goes to gas and especially fuel oil), its ecological impact is not insignificant either. According to figures recorded by Engie, heating a 100 m² house requires nearly 11,000 kWh. And, at a rate of 147 g of CO2 equivalent per kWh, suffice to say that the results of electric heating are steep.
How, then, can we adopt more reasonable electricity consumption, which is part of an eco-responsible approach, without transforming our interior into an antechamber of the ice floe? The answer is quite simple, and can be summed up in one word: tiko. A connected thermostat that helps regulate both the temperature of your home and the energy consumption of heaters, and which also saves money. A solution almost too good to be true? No, she’s just clever.
It allows you to control the heating with your finger and eye (and much more)
Choosing a connected thermostat like tiko offers many advantages, and the first of them is undoubtedly the possibility of obtaining much more precise control over your heating system. A connected thermostat also offers the possibility of benefiting from numerous features that are impossible to obtain otherwise and which help to create a healthier environment on a daily basis.
To offer its subscribers a complete connected system, tiko relies on an installation made up of different elements. Sensors, first of all. Thanks to the combination of temperature sensors (logic) and humidity sensors, tiko is able to perfectly regulate the heating of the home to keep the temperature constant and the sensation of pleasant warmth. A control module and a communication module complete the package to ensure the correct transmission of sensor data and manage programming.
This device is completed by an application which not only allows you to control all the heaters, but also to access a host of extremely interesting features. Thanks to it, it is possible to define the desired temperature room by room to best adjust to your needs. It is also possible to program heating scenarios for each room, day by day, to the nearest quarter of an hour, in order to obtain heating that strictly corresponds to the user’s needs.
This application also allows you to closely monitor the consumption of the various connected heaters, and regularly offers advice on how to program radiators, heat your home or even save money.
And, if you are wondering what happens to the data collected by the tiko application, rest assured. The company practices a strict data security policy, stored on secure servers in Europe, particularly in Germany and Switzerland. Your data (anonymized) will never be sold to a third party, and only used for the purposes of studies and improvements in tiko’s performance.
It is part of an eco-responsible approach
The great strength of tiko, beyond transforming your old radiators into connected radiators, is to allow its users to reduce their energy consumption by consuming in a more reasoned manner. An approach which obviously has a financial interest, but which is above all beneficial for the environment. Heating less, more intelligently, means using less electricity and therefore releasing less CO2 into the atmosphere.
But this is not the only advantage of tiko in terms of ecology. The company works in close collaboration with the Electricity Transport Network (RTE) to stabilize the French electricity network. To do this, tiko practices “erasure”, a technique which aims to automatically shift the heating cycles of the connected radiators when the network is subject to high demand.
The goal ? Avoid power cuts and, above all, the use of thermal energy plants, which are real ecological disasters, to meet demand. This erasure is done completely invisible to the user thanks to tiko’s algorithms which quickly correct the situation. In this way, and even in the event of high pressure on the network, the actual temperature of a home and the temperature desired by users does not vary by more than one degree.
According to a study carried out on behalf of tiko by the Utopie firm, installing a tiko connected thermostat saves on average 474 kg of CO2 per year. For example, a home with 5 radiators equipped with tiko produces nearly 2.4 tonnes less CO2 equivalent than a traditional home.
It’s free (and you are not the product)
tiko is therefore a connected thermostat that allows you to: save money on a daily basis, control your installation simply from your smartphone and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To top it all off, it costs nothing.
Yes, opting for a tiko connected thermostat will cost you… nothing. No hidden fees. No additional subscription. No installation fees. Nothing. Nada.
In order to offer its solution without costing its users a single cent, tiko relies on two elements. On the one hand, the government’s boost bonus, which largely covers the cost of installation and equipment. The rest is taken care of by tiko, which “offers” the installation to its subscribers as part of the effort made for the environment and the stabilization of the electricity network.
So what is tiko’s interest in all this? In addition to the company’s desire to work for the environment, the principles applied by tiko in terms of energy management for its subscribers (the famous “shedding”) are also valued by the Electricity Transmission Network, which remunerates the company for that. A way to encourage as many French people as possible to get involved in erasure.
How to get a tiko connected thermostat?
To benefit from the benefits provided by using a tiko thermostat, there are some hardware prerequisites, the main one being that you absolutely must have electric radiators. For what ? Quite simply because the tiko system is not compatible with other types of heating (gas, oil, wood, etc.). If your installation meets this criterion, you are on the right track. It remains to check whether your accommodation includes:
- three electric radiators at least;
- a Linky meter;
- an internet connection with a box (ADSL or Fiber, whatever).
These are the only constraints. Whether you live in a house or an apartment, in the city center or in the middle of the countryside, whether you have three or ten radiators, it makes no difference to tiko. After booking an appointment online, a professional technician will come to your home to install the equipment, configure the application and define the heating programs. Intervention which, by the way, does not require any work.
To find out more about how the tiko installation works, its benefits, and how to benefit from it, all you have to do is take a look at the tiko website.
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