Smart thermostats are fairly ubiquitous these days, but depending on which one you’re using, you could be getting a lot more from your home heating and cooling — with relatively simple DIY upgrades.

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

In 1970s Iran, entrepreneur Hamid Farzaneh started a company that installed heating and cooling systems into the homes of wealthy Iranians. But he noticed a problem: The HVAC systems only gave people ...

On February 20, 2015, the 20th episode of the sixth season of "Shark Tank" premiered on ABC. The third of four companies pitched to the Sharks that week was Keen Home, an internet-connected vent to ...

Smart thermostats are great, but they often do not regulate the temperature of individual rooms. That’s where Keen Home’s Smart Vents come into play. The company first announced their product at ...

Many homeowners have experienced the frustration and expense of repairing a faulty HVAC system. Today, SmartAC.com launched the first smart home gadget for monitoring the health of your HVAC system.

Thermostats have gotten seriously smart in the last decade. In addition to their traditional role of sensing temperature and powering the HVAC system on or off, units from Nest, ecobee, Honeywell, and ...