I’m looking for some advice please from the assembled brains at Automated Home…
AlertMe.com just launched its peace-of-mind service in the UK, and I’m one of the founders of the company. I’m considering whether we should add to the AlertMe system the ability to control domestic heating (i.e. central heating and hot water). All of our accessories contain high-quality temperature sensors, so your AlertMe system already has a good idea of the temperatures around your home, and AlertMe knows when you’re at home too. This is all highly relevant to controlling heating better, so if we introduced a replacement heating programmer I’m sure we could optimize when the boiler runs, to save you money and save the planet too. After all, apparently 60-80% of the typical UK household’s energy consumption is spent on space-heating and water-heating. According to the useful chart here, “most” UK programmers fit on a standard Landis & Gyr RWB2 wall base. I recently changed mine, and it took me just a few minutes to swap them over, very straightforward.
So on to my question…
Imagine we introduced an AlertMe replacement heating programmer which fitted onto this “standard” base, and provided a single changeover heating output, and a single changeover hot-water output. In what percentage of UK homes would this be a drop-in replacement?
Thanks,
-Pilgrim Beart
By the way, if you haven’t already, please do take part in our survey which closes at the end of Feb and mentions this idea amongst others – I’d love to hear your views.
AlertMe.com just launched its peace-of-mind service in the UK, and I’m one of the founders of the company. I’m considering whether we should add to the AlertMe system the ability to control domestic heating (i.e. central heating and hot water). All of our accessories contain high-quality temperature sensors, so your AlertMe system already has a good idea of the temperatures around your home, and AlertMe knows when you’re at home too. This is all highly relevant to controlling heating better, so if we introduced a replacement heating programmer I’m sure we could optimize when the boiler runs, to save you money and save the planet too. After all, apparently 60-80% of the typical UK household’s energy consumption is spent on space-heating and water-heating. According to the useful chart here, “most” UK programmers fit on a standard Landis & Gyr RWB2 wall base. I recently changed mine, and it took me just a few minutes to swap them over, very straightforward.
So on to my question…
Imagine we introduced an AlertMe replacement heating programmer which fitted onto this “standard” base, and provided a single changeover heating output, and a single changeover hot-water output. In what percentage of UK homes would this be a drop-in replacement?
Thanks,
-Pilgrim Beart
By the way, if you haven’t already, please do take part in our survey which closes at the end of Feb and mentions this idea amongst others – I’d love to hear your views.
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