Ecobee Launches New Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced [Video]

Ecobee has announced a new Smart Thermostat Enhanced and Smart Thermostat Premium with Apple HomeKit support and built-in Siri.

Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced combine quality materials and advanced engineering for the company’s most sophisticated smart thermostats yet. The new smart thermostats are built with radar – ecobee’s most advanced sensor technology to date – for improved occupancy and motion detection, while a refreshed user experience and larger display make them easier to use than ever before. ecobee’s new flagship Smart Thermostat Premium offers all this plus so much more. With a harmonious combination of design and function, Smart Thermostat Premium is the only smart thermostat with both an indoor air quality monitor and an embedded smart speaker with a choice of Siri or Alexa built-in, encased in a stunning zinc body.

“At ecobee, we believe the future smart home will be more resilient and efficient, and we remain committed to achieving these goals by offering advanced technologies designed to improve everyday life and create a more sustainable world,” said ecobee Founder and CEO, Stuart Lombard. “Our all-new smart thermostat lineup is our smartest yet, with industry leading technology including radar and a new intuitive user experience, and is designed to bring families more comfort, energy savings, and peace of mind, while improving home health and looking great on your wall.”

Redesigned Inside and Out

The Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced feature a glass face and smooth waterfall edges. New radar technology detects motion and occupancy from further away and around corners. Unlike an infrared sensors, it's hidden inside the thermostat without a visible lens in the corner. This allows for a sleeker and smoother design while improving energy saving capabilities.

A more responsive display is 50% larger than previous models and boasts more colorful and vibrant resolution, while the refreshed user interface embraces ecobee’s signature squircle shape and improves ease of navigation. Larger temperature sliders make changing the temperature a breeze, and an easy-to-find menu helps users discover and engage with new features.

Built-in Air Quality Monitor

The flagship ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium revolutionizes the thermostat as a tool for overall home health with an air quality monitor built right into the device, delivering true comfort that residents can breathe in. The thermostat displays important data about indoor air quality, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), estimated carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, and relative humidity. ecobee will alert customers through the app when indoor air quality is poor and provide tips on how to improve it.

Smart Security

ecobee’s latest smart thermostats are designed to easily turn into a home security system to keep homes safe, while helping families live more comfortably and save energy. ecobee smart thermostats understand when families are home, away, awake, or asleep to optimize their comfort and savings. With SmartSensor for doors and windows and a Smart Security plan, ecobee works even better by understanding even more about what is happening in the home to protect against break-ins, fires, and frozen pipes, and to automatically pause heating or cooling when a door or window is left open. Smart Thermostat Premium also comes with ecobee’s signature SmartSensor in the box, which can be placed anywhere throughout the home to detect motion and provide a more accurate reading of the home’s occupancy and temperature to help manage hot or cold spots.

By signing up for Smart Security Complete with professional monitoring ($10 USD/month), currently available in the United States, customers may save up to an additional 10% on their monthly home insurance. When added to the thermostat’s up to 26% savings on annual heating and cooling bills, average annual savings total up to $360 USD, making it the only smart security system that pays for itself.

Sustainability

From energy conservation to recyclable packaging, the new ecobee smart thermostats were designed with sustainability in mind. Every home consumes energy differently, which is why ecobee created eco+, a suite of smart features that helps customers save on energy by improving the home's energy efficiency, while maintaining comfort. With eco+, ENERGY STAR certified ecobee smart thermostats automatically help customers save up to 26% on annual heating and cooling costs by learning and adapting to people's routines while at home and reducing energy use while away. In fact, eco+ is one of the reasons why ecobee has been named ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for the second year in a row.

ecobee smart thermostats are made with quality materials and built to last. ecobee has also scrutinized every piece of packaging to create less waste and use fewer resources. Each package size has been reduced 30%, allowing more product to fit into each shipment, to lower the carbon footprint of shipping the thermostats. Inside the box, recycled paper packaging has been replaced with tapioca starch trays, which use less water and energy, are fully compostable, and are sourced near the assembly facilities to reduce shipping emissions. Smart Thermostat Premium and Smart Thermostat Enhanced are ecobee's first products to be paper manual-free with a mobile-only approach to installation.

Pricing, Availability and Compatibility

Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium is available to purchase now for $249.99 on ecobee.com and Amazon.com.

Ecobee Smart Thermostat Enhanced is available to purchase now for $189.99 on ecobee.com and Amazon.com.

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