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An ecosmart home (which may also be called a green smart home) employs products to help decrease the use of energy around the home and in turn makes life easier by automating tasks that one would otherwise do manually. Products might include: programmable thermostats, motions detectors that sense people and turn off lights and other items when one leaves the room, lighting and power timers, power strips that sense when items that draw energy are turned off and automatically shut off power altogether reducing standby loads, solar powered products that use clean energy (instead of coal or nuclear power), energy consumption monitors, etc. An ecosmart home also considers responsible use of the earth’s resources by recycling, reducing the need and usage of disposable products and those made from non-renewable resources, and reusing products that are generally meant to be disposable but actually can have useful second lives.
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