Temperature control with wireless, self powered sensors

 Great energy savings can be harnessed by distributing the temperature sensing into the space. 

Echoflex' wireless, self powered temperature sensors provide a peel and stick way to provide conditioning information to intelligent controllers. Spaces within a house or a commercial office do not need to be the same temperature. Theses spaces, as their uses vary, can have different temperature settings. For example, the hallway or corridor of a building can be a significantly lower temperature than the office space it leads to.

Thermostat - ERtSTAT

This Echoflex thermostat comes with a variety of firmware and control options. Temperature sensors, switches, key card switches, occupancy sensors, front door and patio door switches can all be linked to the device to provide energy control through set backs when unoccupied to shut downs when windows are open and conditioned air is simply spilling into the outdoor.

Firmware that addresses a variety of solutions reside in the controllers;

Residential - as simple as switch control - leaving the house turn the switch off to set back the temperature arrive home turn it on. More than one entrance - then make it a three or more way switch.

Hotel or Dormitory- link a key card switch to it or the more passive front door/occupancy interlock (see occupancy solutions) to determine occupancy. Have a balcony with a sliding door? Just add a patio door switch and decide how agressive you want the controller to be - door open = shut down, door open = set back, you choose.

 Base Board Control

The most basic heating is inexpensive to put in but costs the most to run. Most do not have any control and certainly do not perform any of the more suffisticated scheduling functions. 

The Echoflex base board controllers allows you to control the temperature and provide some unique set back functions as well as setting the temperature limits of the system, for instance control to temperatures of 18C only and hard coding this limit into the device. This controller will learn temperature sensors to perform averaging, last one touched, or most or least demand options but will also learn the spaces master switch so that when you leave the space and turn the switch off to turn off lights, it will also set back the temperature.

Scheduling and Programmability

Scheduling baseboards and furnaces can now be done using any a programmable thermostat. Wirelessly enabling this thermostat to propogate on and off signals to control equipment, with a small radio modification, brings time of day savings to the application as well.

Furnace control module - 4 channel controller

In 2007, Echoflex' products won the Solar Decathlon for "Conditioning and Comfort" with the University of Illinois. Utilizing wireless and self powered temperature and humidity sensors along with this controller allowed for a very comfortable home, with controls that we moved from space to space in the house depending on its occupancy. This device is excellent when upgrading furnace and heat pump equipment and running extra control lines to a central stat is not possible.