Hi all
My first post here, so forgive my ignorance.
I run a business where we rent apartments to tourists. Trouble is the tourists love to leave the heating on and turn it up to make it tropical in the apartments. So I was wondering if some smart-home gadgets might be possible to modify for my use.
Most of the apartments we manage are heated either by a building gas system, city gas supplying hot water to the radiators or a gas boiler in the flat. My idea is to use remotely controlled thermostat/regulators on the radiators. Ideally these could not be controlled manually but I guess that isn't a requirement.
I have seen something like this exists, but I might be wrong. If it does exist I'd like to hook the controller up to a card entry system, so when someone comes into the apartment they put the entry card in a slot and the controller knows someone is home. It would then turn the heating up a bit to make it an ambient temperature. When they go out it would drop the temperature down to a maintenance level.
My plan is also to cut off all electrical power except for essential items when the customer is out.
So then, does anyone know how I might do this, and if I have more than one apartment in the building might it be better to get some central control unit for all the apartments?
My first post here, so forgive my ignorance.
I run a business where we rent apartments to tourists. Trouble is the tourists love to leave the heating on and turn it up to make it tropical in the apartments. So I was wondering if some smart-home gadgets might be possible to modify for my use.
Most of the apartments we manage are heated either by a building gas system, city gas supplying hot water to the radiators or a gas boiler in the flat. My idea is to use remotely controlled thermostat/regulators on the radiators. Ideally these could not be controlled manually but I guess that isn't a requirement.
I have seen something like this exists, but I might be wrong. If it does exist I'd like to hook the controller up to a card entry system, so when someone comes into the apartment they put the entry card in a slot and the controller knows someone is home. It would then turn the heating up a bit to make it an ambient temperature. When they go out it would drop the temperature down to a maintenance level.
My plan is also to cut off all electrical power except for essential items when the customer is out.
So then, does anyone know how I might do this, and if I have more than one apartment in the building might it be better to get some central control unit for all the apartments?
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