Energy efficiency remains a critical factor when designing and building new homes. However, since the advent of the ‘smart home revolution’, controllability is now a key issue for consideration.
Today, homeowners are not only keen to wirelessly control key aspects of their home, they want to be able to mirror their lifestyles too.
Technological Advancement of Electric Radiators
Electric radiators have come leaps and bounds adapting quickly in their ability to offer the flexibility of smart controlling affording users several benefits including a greater energy efficiency. Once viewed solely within the realms of function as mere appliances to be used to heat parts of properties typically taking the chill off draughty spaces.
Today they provide an additional aesthetic property – thanks to a variety of designs, sizes, and colours. More importantly, they are able to provide greater freedom and flexibility in the realms of managing your energy and overall carbon footprint.
Smart Electric Radiators
Utilising a smart controlled heating system is not only financially essential in the modern day but affords homeowners the power to control their home’s temperature with ease and without wasting heat.
Radiators that can be individually thermostatically controlled and left to run independently, or a whole system linked to a central controller and programmed to meet heating needs, are a real attraction.
Other energy management features include; in-built energy monitors that provide home-owners with data on energy usage, virtual open window sensors (turning heat off when open windows are detected), temperature control with day and/or week timers, presence detection, adaptive start control, and distance control functions, to name but a few.
It’s the true smart control systems that now steal the show. With a central touchscreen and a link to WiFi, electric radiators can be controlled by the homeowner via a smartphone/tablet App and from anywhere in the world. It can also be integrated with your home’s intelligent personal assistance, Alexa or Nest, which allow you to enable voice interaction and connectivity with other devices.
Heating can be adjusted and managed by asking Alexa to turn a radiator on/off or to change the temperature. Other smart features include; an adaptive Start function that familiarises the heaters with knowing the best time to auto activate and to the usual temperature.
It can even go one step further by automatically signalling other remotely sited radiators within the area through its built RF chip with a signal can that can ‘hop’ four times. Now that’s smart!
The Future of Home Heating
Estimates suggest that in just two years’ time there will be over 7.7 million UK ‘smart’ homes. Electric radiators have certainly adapted quickly to match this growing trend, so now’s a great time to find out more. Don’t get left out in the cold!
The Electric Radiator Shop offers a remarkable and varied range of cost-effective electric radiators and panel heaters perfect for any budgets and personal styles. These electric radiators even conform to the Lot 20 standards initiated by manufacturers such as Electrorad.