HVAC Systems determine the highest possible comfort for your home. They also have the greatest impact on a home’s energy needs and maintenance costs. That’s why their integrated control is the standard for smart buildings.
Today’s homes have modern heating systems, increasingly recuperated ventilation and air conditioning. All of these systems can be controlled, and in fact, they need to be controlled, otherwise, we will only use part of their capabilities. In addition, controlling them also means controlling your energy bills. You can also install MVHR at your home.
Controlling your heating with Smart Houston HVAC Systems allows you to achieve the following:
- The climate in the home or any selected room will exactly match the owner’s sense of comfort, according to the heating appliance program they choose;
- Automated control of the heating system will be able to significantly reduce energy consumption;
- The intellectual control of home subsystems will allow one to control them remotely and not to worry about possible failures (the computer will respond to malfunction).
- The disadvantage of such technologies is the availability due to the rather high cost of equipment and system installation.
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What is smart ventilation?
The automation of the ventilation system implies a smart fan. As in all smart systems, it assumes the presence of detectors, sensors, and a control device. “Smart” fan usually has several speed modes, which regulate the amount of incoming airflow into the room. The device is equipped with a tube in which there is a coolant that can heat the fresh air supplied. The servo installed in the intelligent ventilation system will allow you to control the amount of heat supplied by the heat exchanger. If there is no heat exchanger, you can adjust the amount of heat delivered to the room by adjusting the speed of the fan.
Smart ventilation is a special supply and exhaust unit that promotes the automatic purification of air masses according to the set quality indicators. Essentially, this unit allows you to extract the air and keep it fresh at all times of the year. The advantage is that the smart ventilation can be connected to the system “Smart House” to control and monitor the indicators with a special dashboard or remotely through a smartphone.
This system can be installed both at the stage of construction of the house as well as during its re-equipment. The unit is mounted on the wall in any position, and from it comes the distribution of ventilation pipes connected throughout the house. One outlet connects to an outdoor vent pipe, and the other six indoor ones are located throughout the house.
Special sensors will inform about the humidity and temperature in the room, sending these data to the general computer, which will give the necessary commands to the actuators in different areas of the house. All the fans and sensors are remotely controlled through a cell phone or remote control.
Unified heating system
For a smart house, you can install heating boilers single-circuit (only heating) and double-circuit (heating, water heating) and connect to the system. Boilers can be gas, electric, or solid fuel. There are models with automation and electronics, including a Wi-Fi module for connection to the home router and remote control via smartphone.
- A heated, well-insulated home has a ventilation unit with distributed ventilation ducts.
- Wall inlets are used to introduce clean air during the winter.
- When CO2 is abundant, the gas is exhausted from the room through the ductwork until it stabilizes at an acceptable value.
- When stabilized, the valve is closed to the minimum, keeping the heat in the room.
The heating system will be physically separate from the ventilation system. It is realistic to combine them on a single control unit or in a single smartphone. The interaction will be created only through the air.
Smart buildings make HVAC systems more efficient
People’s high sensitivity to temperature levels and air velocity complicates the design of HVAC systems. Typically, such systems use a single temperature sensor that signals a heater or air conditioner to turn on. “Such a system is very simple, but not very flexible or efficient.” His research is related to the development of intelligent systems that provide higher quality regulation of microclimate parameters.
The main purpose of such systems is to improve building safety and reduce energy and other costs, but beyond that, they provide the potential for more precise control of indoor climate parameters. “We are looking for technical solutions that will create a comfortable climate for everyone.”
Benefits of Smart HVAC Systems
By integrating and fully automating the control of the three units we are interested in, we can expect:
- Increased comfort;
- Significant savings and reduced bills;
- Gain better control over media consumption and operation in general.
A more efficient solution is to create a room heating system under the control of a single control unit, which can be set to a common mode of operation (taking into account the specifics of operation for each group of heaters separately).
Both for a simple and a combined heating system, a successful solution would be to define temperature zones by setting separate heating parameters for each of them. A smart house with heating set up in this way will heat the living rooms more, with less activity to give heat to the outbuildings.
