Smart Home

What is geofencing, and how does it work with Sensi thermostats?

Geofencing is a way to automatically control your Sensi thermostat based on your location. When you travel 3 miles away from your home the Sensi app will signal for your thermostat to change set points and save energy. Your thermostat will lower the temperature 3 degrees when you are in heat mode or raise 3 degrees in cool mode. When you travel back to within 3 miles from your home, your thermostat will be set back to the temperature you had selected before you left.

If you’re a busy person with no set schedule, the geofencing feature allows you to be more efficient with your heating and cooling energy usage without needing to remember to adjust your thermostat.

If you tend to have a predictable schedule from day-to-day or week-to-week, the scheduling feature may fit your lifestyle better.

If you’d like to turn on Geofencing, open the Sensi app.

• Tap on your thermostat name.
• Tap Scheduling.
• Tap Schedule type.
• Tap Geofencing.

If you want to recognize more than one device in this mode, have each device log into the Sensi app, and follow the instructions above.

For example: Joe and his daughter, Jane, live in a condo. Joe turns on geofencing in the Sensi app on his phone. Now regardless of whether Jane is home or not, when Joe leaves, the thermostat sets back 3 degrees. If Jane logs in and turns on geofencing with her phone, now the set back will not occur until both Joe and Jane leave the home.