Smart Home pellet heating for a house with a greenhouse from FOCUS

Smart Home pellet heating can be an excellent choice for a home with a greenhouse, providing a comfortable environment for residents and optimal conditions for plants. Moreover, the entire heating system can operate from one powerful boiler, which is any model of such equipment, providing temperature regulation according to the zonal principle.

Given the importance of maintaining optimal conditions for plants in the greenhouse, ensure there is a backup power source so that the heating and ventilation system can operate even in the event of a power outage. An automated pellet boiler house also requires a constant power supply.

A few aspects to consider when implementing such a system:

Temperature control

A smart heating system based on pellets can ensure stable maintenance of a comfortable temperature inside the house and greenhouse. Including following regulation algorithms, using sensor data and scenarios specified by users. In other words, in a greenhouse, the climate system can operate according to built-in algorithms, providing the necessary conditions for plants; in a house, the temperature can decrease in the absence of residents or be maintained based on the scenarios of the people living in it.

Using temperature sensors, motion sensors and smart thermostats, you can schedule your heating system to maintain optimal conditions for plant growth and occupant comfort at different times of day and in different seasons, as well as provide heat on demand 360/24 /7.

Smart Home pellet heating differs from other systems in that the boiler initially has a built-in microcontroller with weather controller functions. For this reason, it is an ideal solution for a house with a greenhouse that requires a lot of heat and “fine” climate control settings. 

Humidity and ventilation

In a greenhouse, it is important to maintain not only the temperature, but also the humidity level and provide good ventilation for the health of the plants. Smart Home pellet heating integrates easily with these solutions.

A smart HVAC system (from the English Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) can include humidity sensors, CO2 and ventilation systems that adjust automatically depending on the conditions in the greenhouse and inside the house. This is beneficial for residents and plants, and is especially convenient since everything is adjusted automatically.

A distinctive feature of PLUM's smart HVAC heating system is the ability to deploy a network of sensors and climate control devices using expansion modules for a greenhouse home.

Using different types of sensors

Temperature and humidity sensors in the greenhouse so that the system can respond to changing conditions in real time and automatically adjust heating and ventilation operating parameters. Zonal placement of heating circuits (in the case of pellet boiler houses using water coolant, these are heated floors, air heaters and heating radiators) helps to automatically regulate the temperature in the heating zones depending on the needs of the plants using growth algorithms.

A smart home can also include a lighting control system in the greenhouse, allowing conditions to be adjusted according to sensor data. This allows you to create optimal conditions for plants by adjusting the light intensity and duration of lighting depending on the needs of the crops.

Energy efficiency

Many modern pellet heating systems are highly energy efficient and can be integrated with other devices in a smart home to optimize energy use.

This may include the use of heat pumps, solar systems and other, in specific cases, more optimal heat sources (for example, for underfloor heating systems operating in the off-season when the sun is still active) to increase heating efficiency, integration with lighting control systems and other devices for reducing energy consumption. 

Smart Home pellet heating allows you to control the intensity of the pellet burner, which will ultimately provide 2 kW of power when residents use hot water in the summer, and 25 kW in the winter, when all heating devices are working. You can expand and scale the heating system in terms of power by connecting pellet boilers using the cascade principle.

Remote control and monitoring

Using a mobile application, room touch panels or devices with this function, as well as on a computer via a cloud website, home owners can remotely monitor and control the heating system and conditions in the greenhouse, even while away from home.

Microcontrollers PLUM Ecomax models EcoMAX 360 and EcoMAX860 (EcoMAX260 for boilers with manual fuel loading) support wired and wireless connection of devices via Wi-Fi, depending on the desires and needs of users.

This allows you to quickly respond to changes in conditions based on messages received from the system and make adjustments to the operation of the system in real time.

Modern smart home and pellet heating technologies can create optimal conditions for both home occupants and greenhouse plants, providing comfort, energy efficiency and healthy plant growth. Smart Home pellet heating for a house with a greenhouse allows you to create optimal conditions and optimize financial heating costs thanks to the control function.