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Cutaway illustration of a hot garage where a wall sensor and home-automation controller send infrared commands to a portable air conditioner, cooling an aquarium, a closed battery case, a laptop, and a small computer
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The Air Conditioner Needed a Thermostat It Could Hear

A garage AC used 601 kWh in 29 days, but shutting it off would endanger what it was cooling. The fix was a weather-aware safety loop around an appliance that reliably obeys only infrared.

#household-systems#home-automation#energy5 min