Smart home technologies a hot topic at IFA 2022 keynote

New smart home technologies will be front and centre at IFA 2022, when Schneider Electric Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer Gwenaelle Avice-Huet talks about saving energy in her keynote address.

In her keynote talk, ’Smart Home is a Smart Option for a Sustainable Future’ Avice-Huet, who in 2018 was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and awarded Knight of the French Order of Merit in 2019, will discuss the impact of consumer behaviour on global climate change. and how society can benefit from smart home energy technologies.

Avice-Huet will discuss and explain how smart home technologies and energy savings can help to reduce CO2 emissions and be part of a wider climate control proposition. According to a study by the UN, today homes represent 20 percent of global CO2 emissions.

According to a 2021 survey commissioned by Schneider Electric, more than half of consumers want to reduce their household CO2 emissions to zero. For many people around the world, energy and cost efficiency in the home is a top priority, says Avice-Huet.

“That is the Home of the Future we are innovating for, with smart home energy management at the heart. We want to give everybody access to a sustainable future and continue to decarbonise our planet.“

Gwenaelle Avice-Huet from Schneider Electric will hold her keynote speech on September 3, at 5 pm on the IFA convention stage in hall 23.