Climate control in a residential building. Peculiarities

Using climate control in a residential building, you not only improve comfort levels by heating the premises to the desired temperature, but also significantly save the thermal energy required for heating in the winter. So, climate control has become available to everyone, today on our website of the Ukrainian boiler manufacturer FOCUS TERMO we will touch on this topic again. First of all, this concerns the management of heating equipment and savings on heating.

What options are available:

• control from a smartphone or digital panel;
• control of boiler parameters from a mobile device;
• remote control;
• programming heating scenarios for certain rooms;
• connection of outdoor and indoor thermostats.

This is convenient, since the home boiler room, when accessed from a mobile device to the microcontroller, is constantly under control and does not require labor-intensive maintenance. Climate control in a residential building is becoming a source of comfort and a way to reduce costs.

 

What is the OFFGRID concept?

The OFFGRID concept literally means “life off the grid”, namely without the supply of electricity, gas, water and the consumption of other utilities from the main networks. In other words, we are talking about autonomous houses, as our ancestors lived, but with a level of comfort that the owner of the house considers acceptable for himself.

FOCUS TERMO pellet boilers were developed specifically for heat supply and independent heating without gas, combining the advantages of an inexpensive solid fuel boiler and program-controlled heating equipment. It was also taken into account that pellet heating has many advantages:

Firstly, this is heating in the context of a sustainable concept, that is, with the concept of sustainable development, implying the thoughtful use of natural resources. Pellets are made from agro-waste, shavings, and chopped branches. A special feature of such pellets is their high ash content, which requires cleaning of combustion products to avoid emissions. FOCUS pellet boilers meet these requirements.

Secondly, all OFFGRID houses have limited access to resources, so fuel conservation is necessary. For this reason, climate control in a residential building optimally combines economy and comfort. Pellet boilers can be finely adjusted, which allows you to adjust the heating to the required scenarios.

 

How to install climate control in a residential building

The approach to deploying such a system will depend on its scale. The most basic solution would be to buy a boiler with climate control. In this case, the heating device will have two temperature sensors: an analog sensor for measuring the temperature in the heating circuit and a room temperature sensor. 

The boiler will regulate the temperature in the circuit in accordance with the room temperature, turn the boiler on and off according to heating scenarios. In such systems, it is allowed to install digital thermostats on batteries, which control the volume of coolant passing through and the temperature in the room, regardless of the boiler’s automation. But the boiler automation will respond to the temperature in the room where the boiler is installed, that is, indirectly depend on the operation of the batteries through the data of temperature sensors. But these systems will not be physically united.

Despite the fairly developed functionality, such a system still cannot be called climate control in a residential building; it is more likely to control the temperature of the coolant and the operation of the boiler. We invite you to familiarize yourself with climate control in accordance with the HVAC concept; it is shown in a graphical interpretation in the diagram below. You can make just such a system using based on the FOCUS monoblock pellet boiler for residential buildings.

Climate control is implemented using more complex microcontroller systems, which controls the temperature in all rooms.