Smart thermostats allow you to control your heating on the go from your phone, tablet or other device. We can supply and fit all types of smart controllers including Nest, Hive, and Honeywell.
Under the new Boiler Plus requirements, a new combi boiler must be fitted with an advanced temperature control that uses:
Weather compensation controls
Weather compensation controls estimate how much heat the boiler needs to produce based on the difference between the external temperature and the desired internal room temperature. Weather compensation controls can work with compatible ‘modulating’ boilers. A modulating boiler operates between a range of outputs, for example between 5kW and 18kW. The thermostat adjusts the boiler’s output up or down as weather conditions change. This ‘advance warning’ allows the boiler to make small adjustments to its output in order to meet the heat demand as efficiently as possible.
The outside temperature is either obtained via an externally fitted probe or via the local weather station. Temperature data from a weather station will be less accurate than a probe fitted to the outside of the house. For this reason weather station compensation thermostats tend to work in conjunction with load compensation technology.
Load compensation controls
Load compensation works in the same way as weather compensation, but instead uses the difference between the internal room temperature and the desired room temperature to control the boiler’s output to close the gap. Load compensation can work with compatible modulating boilers.
For compensation controls to work the heating control and boiler must be able to communicate in a common language – see our Ensuring Compatibility section below.
Smart controls featuring automation and optimisation functions
Weather and load compensation vary the boiler’s output to use as little gas as is absolutely necessary to meet the desired room temperature. Smart controls, for the purposes of Boiler Plus, use AI to automate the time and temperature settings based on occupancy detection, geofencing and/or stored data from user patterns over time. Smart controls work on a learned schedule of use and how quickly your home loses or gains heat. Over time the control will know how early the boiler will need to come on to meet the set temperature operating in its most efficient condensing mode.
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