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"Smart Living System™" Monitors Home and Saves Money, Too

One of our goals at IDT Energy is to keep you in the know about the latest developments in alternatives in energy usage, savings and other innovations to make the earth cleaner and living easier with improved quality.

One of the latest developments is an increased interest in modular home construction with green, energy saving features.

The “Smart Living System ™” is a whole house, high-tech energy management system which also monitors your home. This innovative system will save money on utility bills while simultaneously keeping homeowners comfortable.

Among its features is the ability to detect pipe leaks and even automatically connect to the appropriate number to repair the leak. This saves money and time, not to mention saving the water. A truly useful technology.

Green and Modular, New Home Construction Goes on Tour

In its exploration of what is new in the world of energy savings and green, efficient energy supply, IDT Energy wants you to know about modular green homes.

The Living Zero Home was constructed for the Department of Energy to be a showcase for the country to introduce people to the concept of building modular homes.
Making 17 stops around the United States, including at NASCAR races, the “Living Zero Home Tour” will be travelling from now until late fall, 2009. On this tour you will see incorporated into the structure of the home:

• Icynene (R) foam insulation designed to reduce cooling and heating bills up to 50%.
• Solar panels to produce electricity.
• Low flow plumbing fixtures which reduce the use of water and also saves energy needed to heat the water- if there’s less water to heat, you need less heat and therefore less energy to produce the heat.
• Compact fluorescent or LED lights with the ENERGY STAR.
• ENERGY STAR-rated appliances.
• Water heaters that do not use tanks.
• Bamboo flooring.
• Day lighting systems of zero energy use.
• Fiber cement siding.

Included in this modular model house will be the “Smart Living System™.”  More about what that is in a future post.

Modular Homes Save Time and Money

At IDT Energy we want you to know what is new in the world of innovation, energy savings, alternative energy sources and great new ways to save money.

Traditionally homes are built on-site, bringing materials and manpower to the construction site. For several reasons this style of building can be wasteful, not only of time but of resources for the following reasons:

• Bad weather can slow down or even stop on site construction projects, wasting human resources.
• Cutting parts onsite creates wasted wood, drywall, roofing and packaging materials which end up in landfills, wasting natural and man-made resources.
Modular building indoors has the following benefits:
• Controlled climate in a factory means no bad weather days, work continues uninterrupted with no human resource waste.
• Factory homes can be built with higher quality, for example, studs and joints can be cut more accurately and connected with better tools not always available onsite.
• Modular homes are built to withstand transport from factory to construction site, making them even stronger than homes built onsite.

Not only are modular homes gaining in popularity just for these reasons,  the efficiency of building modular homes is combining with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to create an almost irresistible alternative to the traditional onsite home construction with traditional infrastructure.

IDT Energy is hopeful that a greener, more efficient future of home construction is at our doorstep.