Stand alone temperature and energy control with thermostats and load shedding contactors

Value proposition

• Make saving controlling HVAC consumption in the most simple way!

• Optimum and efficient, this solution combines a load shedding strategy with simple devices.

• Thermostats optimize energy consumption.
  
• A simple contactor sheds load at peak demand charges.
  
• In addition this solution may prevent unexpected tripping of loads and the associated negative consequences on comfort and productivity.

• With set of hierarchic priorities, the user can specify the shedding of some circuitry and therefore limit energy consumption. As a consequence, this also lowers the amount on the customer invoice in two ways: less electrical consumption + lower level of subscribed power.
• Can be applied in a various range of application and markets:
  - in residential domain for managing different heating systems and electrical appliances
  - in commercial domain for managing lighting, heating small industrial processes  in small buildings for managing a reversible system of cooling and lighting.
• Temperature regulation with different application modes - such as night drop, confort, low, unfreeze - ensures the user can optimise energy consumption.

Solution architecture

Main Energy Efficiency characteristics

• The thermostat is an user home interface which is linked with a boiler controller and some sensors or the electrical heating system such as floor or electrical fire.

• The load shedder contactor can shed those loads which do not have the highest priority, either cyclicly or hierarchically, and therefore provide peak demand reduction.
  
  As examples, these solutions can be applied in the residential domain for managing different heating systems and electrical appliances; in the commercial domain for managing lighting, heating and other small industrial processes; and in small buildings for managing a reversible system of cooling and lighting.