Savant is now expanding control into home appliances as the company has just recently announced a new partnership with Monogram luxury smart appliances. The news comes off the heels of CEDIA Expo 2024, where the company recently announced a new lighting and shading line from its GE Lighting brand, dubbed Proseo.
The partnership goes beyond being just a set of integrations, however, according to Savant, the two companies have collaborated on creating their own bespoke smart appliance: the Savant Smart Hearth Oven. Additionally, Savant is expanding the capabilities of its smart home automation platform to offer specialized automation services for water heaters connected to the system.
The 30-inch Savant Smart Hearth Oven is a ventless, all-electric oven that fits flush in a standard opening, and, according to Savant, can deliver “brick-over performance” while featuring a variety of cooking modes for different meals.
The oven is handcrafted utilizing premium materials such as a brushed stainless-steel exterior and features intuitive touch controls in addition have full integration into the Savant smart home ecosystem, which also lets users control it natively from within the Savant app.
Users can manage temperature settings, reminders, cooking modes, and power OFF, all remotely.
The design requires no additional ductwork thanks to an integrated ventilation system with active smoke filtering and therefore should provide considerably less hassle when installed into an existing home.
Savant and the team from Monogram Appliances have also designed a luxury appliance referral program, allowing dealers to get their hands on additional smart appliances for their showrooms that they can then demo to clients.
In addition to the Savant Smart Hearth Oven, integrators can also offer clients the Monogram Forge, a unique ice press, the first of its kind available in the USA. The Monogram Forge shapes ice into perfectly round ice spheres, ideally suited to chill the world’s finest spirits without diluting flavor.
Both the Savant Smart Oven and Monogram Forge is now available for Savant Integrators to purchase from the Savant Store.
In addition, Savant is announcing a new Savant water heater service that will make it so users can manage water heater energy consumption through the Savant app. As part of the service, heaters will store thermal energy in the tank when electricity costs are low and consume it when costs are high. Additionally, the service will include a vacation mode, notifications, and temperature management features.
A big reason behind the current focus on smart appliances, Savant notes is that as electrification of the home progresses, control and automation of key energy spenders is going to become that much more valuable as time goes on.
Increasing utility prices as well as an increasing power draw from homes, means that some of the bigger energy consumers, such as water heaters, ovens, and refrigerators, are going to start to get looked at through a more critical lens.
Additionally, as the technology continues to evolve, smart appliances, once looked at as more of a novelty, are going to start to play a key role in the overall smart home, with consumers looking to set different parts of their routine to automation to help save time and energy on certain household activities.
