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Extreme heat waves: how to improve summer comfort with a connected home?
7 July 2026
When temperatures rise, keeping a home cool becomes a priority. Closing shutters at the right time, controlling air conditioning remotely, scheduling fans, or creating scenarios suited to the hottest moments of the day: with Nice's connected solutions, improving everyday summer comfort becomes easier, even remotely.
How to keep a home cooler in summer?
During heatwaves, the right habits remain essential: closing roller shutters before the heat sets in, avoiding unnecessary appliance use, ventilating during the coolest hours.
A connected home goes further, automating some of these actions while keeping control from a mobile app. The goal isn't to multiply devices, but to make everyday use smoother: the home adapts more closely to daily habits, occupancy schedules and indoor conditions.
Keeping heat out before it enters the home
During heatwaves, roller shutters, indoor blinds, outdoor awnings and Venetian blinds play a central role. Used well, they reduce heat gain in the most exposed rooms and help maintain a more pleasant indoor atmosphere.
With the BiDi-MiniShutter micromodule, wired roller shutters and blinds can be integrated into the Nice ecosystem. Users can control them from the Yubii Home app, schedule opening and closing, or include them in personalized scenarios.
Paired with Motion-Control, a wireless sensor that can detect temperature and light levels among other things, the system can help automate solar shading management. For example, depending on a room's brightness, shutters can open or close automatically to maintain a comfortable temperature throughout the day while limiting direct sun exposure.
Controlling air conditioning remotely and avoiding unnecessary use
Air conditioning is one of the most used devices in summer. But its use benefits from better management: adjusting schedules, avoiding forgetting to turn it off, cooling a room before arrival, or stopping it when it's not needed.
Clima-Control allows remote control of split air conditioners equipped with an infrared remote. From the Yubii Home ecosystem, it becomes possible to schedule time slots, create scenarios and control air conditioning from the mobile app.
This approach balances comfort with sensible use: air conditioning can be activated at the right time, based on the household's actual needs, rather than running unnecessarily for long periods.
Controlling fans and improving the feeling of coolness
Summer comfort doesn't rely on air conditioning alone. In many homes, portable or ceiling fans are used to improve the feeling of coolness, especially in the evening or in living spaces.
With Plug-Control, a remotely controllable smart plug with energy consumption monitoring, a portable fan can be controlled from the Yubii Home app. It can be activated remotely, scheduled for specific time slots, or included in a home automation scenario.
For ceiling fans or wired devices, BiDi-Switch allows the equipment to be controlled within the Nice ecosystem. Users can schedule a fan to turn on in the evening, set an automatic shutoff, or launch a scenario from their smartphone.
Creating comfort scenarios with Yubii Home
At the heart of the Nice Smart Home ecosystem, Yubii Home allows users to control home devices from a single app. Z-Wave compatible, the hub is open to integration with over 3,000 devices from other brands and works with major voice assistants, including Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri.
In summer, this centralization takes on its full meaning. Indeed, the strength of a connected home lies not only in remote control, but in the ability to coordinate multiple devices. A few examples of possible uses:
- automatically closing the shutters of a heavily exposed room when brightness becomes too intense;
- scheduling ventilation at the end of the day to improve comfort in bedrooms;
- preparing the home before occupants return by adjusting devices remotely;
- creating a “summer” scenario combining shutters, ventilation and air conditioning based on the household's needs.
These scenarios can be adapted according to the equipment already present in the home, occupants' habits and the installer's recommendations.
Why work with an installer?
Every home is different: room exposure, type of roller shutters, presence or absence of split air conditioning, portable or wired fans, expectations around comfort or remote control. A Nice partner installer can recommend the most suitable solutions, check equipment compatibility and set up scenarios consistent with the household's usage.
It's also an opportunity to gradually upgrade a home: starting by automating roller shutters, then adding air conditioning control, and later integrating ventilation or other connected devices into the same ecosystem.
A more comfortable home, even remotely
Holidays, long weekends, workdays, late returns: summer changes daily routines. With Nice's connected solutions, it becomes possible to stay in control of a home, adjust a schedule, launch a scenario or prepare for a return from the Yubii Home app.
By combining connected solar shading, air conditioning control, ventilation management and personalized scenarios, Nice supports you through heatwaves with solutions that are simple to use every day.
