The Simple thermostat learns from its surroundings to create optimal heating and cooling performance, tailored to your household. 

This process starts with the Simple thermostat taking in several data streams that form the baseline of its learning. Once Simple has learned enough from this data (usually a few weeks), it can begin to make micro-adjustments to your thermostat performance, imperceptible to the average person, but helping keep you comfortable and save you money.

How does the Simple learn?

1. The Simple thermostat knows the local weather of the home that it is in, down to the nearest zip code. Is it a hot and humid day? Or perhaps an unexpectedly cool morning? Simple can see that and adjust accordingly.
2. The Simple thermostat learns about the building thermodynamics of your home. Many homes heat and cool differently based on their age, construction, exposure to sunlight, and other factors. Simple learns the amount of time and energy required to heat or cool your home, and uses this information to ensure that your home is always comfortable.
3. Most importantly, Simple learns from you. Efficiency and comfort optimization is entirely dependent upon the heating and cooling preferences of the people living in the home. That’s why Simple learns from your interactions with the thermostat and app to build a mapping of your temperature preferences throughout the week. Did you recently have a baby? Perhaps your mother-in-law moved in. Simple will adapt its learning to your changing life by observing the changes to your temperature preferences

The Simple thermostat is easy to control from the device or the app.

We get it, you’re busy, and the last thing you want is a “smart” device that requires an engineering degree to manage. That’s why we’ve tried to make the Simple as easy as possible to control. 

On the device itself, we’ve made an easy 5-button design. Change temperatures using up or down buttons. Set away mode with a single button press. The device shows you indoor, outdoor and set-to temperature at all times. 

The Simple app aims to be, well, simple. On the left side of the screen, you see indoor and outdoor temperatures. On the right side of the screen, you see your target or set-to temperature, and until when that temperature is scheduled. Drag the target temperature to change it. 

When Simple’s learning algorithms have made a temperature change, you’ll see the leaf image on the thermostat and the word “Eco” at the bottom of the target temperature circle. 

If you left and didn’t set the away mode, it is only one button click away. And the Simple always shows you the impact of your actions in our savings reports.