How Smart is Your HVAC System?

How Smart is Your HVAC System?

Data Gathering Technologies

Ken, the eComfort Product Expert
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Between learning thermostats, supplemental sensors, and advanced integrated controls, heating and cooling equipment is getting smarter. With these developments, maintaining a comfortable, efficient home is easier than ever.

These technologies gather historical and real-time data about your home, the environment, and how you use your equipment. With this data, your system can identify and eliminate inefficiencies and improve your comfort automatically.

Outdoor Reset Control

Outdoor ResetAn outdoor temperature reset device saves energy and money by continuously adjusting supply water temperatures to compensate for outdoor temperatures, providing more heat when it's colder and less heat when it's warmer.

Outdoor reset control is hardly a new technology, but thanks to direct integration in many modern boilers, controls, and thermostats, it's more powerful than ever. Pre-programmed reset curves allow you to save money right out of the box, but you can create custom parameters for your application. Either method will provide your system with the means to scale your home's temperature with the temperature outside.

Smart Thermostats

Ecobee Smart ThermostatLive data is an invaluable tool when it comes to improving efficiency, but it is only half of the puzzle. Historical data about your temperature preferences and your home's rate of temperature change is essential if you want to get the most out of your intelligent HVAC system.

It used to be that a complicated building management system was your best bet for gathering and accessing long-term heating and cooling statistics, but internet-connected learning thermostats are changing that. Nest and ecobee both produce thermostats that use proprietary algorithms for examining energy usage trends and making personalized, efficiency-increasing adjustments.

New heating and cooling equipment is hardly the only way to improve the energy efficiency of your home. Adding data gathering capabilities to your existing system is an excellent way to reduce costs without sacrificing comfort. With the techniques described above, it's easy to have a system that is actively engaged in saving you money. Give our friendly team a call today to find the perfect products for your home!

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