Many homeowners are guilty of using more energy than is actually necessary to keep their homes warm and in the past, the way in 
which a heating system is controlled has been overlooked.
This is now changing and more attention is being paid to the part sensible and designed control can play in maximising a system’s efficiency. Increasingly, homeowners are looking for a simpler way to manage their heating system to ensure it is working as efficiently as possible.
Controlling a heating system remotely is now an option for many, offering great flexibility as well as reduced running costs. Remote access to a property’s heating controls ensures that rooms are heated only when needed. For example; if the homeowner is going to return home later than expected, they can change the time the heating is due to switch on, saving energy and ultimately cutting their heating costs.
Smart Controls are increasingly popular and work particularly well with an underfloor heating system where they can be installed in each room. They allow individual room temperatures to be independently controlled from one single console – or even a smartphone app. The ability to control room temperatures separately enables ‘fine tuning’, giving the homeowner perfect comfort with improved system controllability.
A recent article by BBC Business touched on ‘how smartphones can cut heating bills by a quarter’ with one user already experiencing savings of 20%-30% thanks to managing their heating system remotely.
Nu-Heat’s Netmonitor+ and free Smartphone App allow an underfloor heating system to be controlled remotely through a PC or via Smartphone.
Netmonitor+ features include:
• Flexible programming modes – create a heating schedule to best fit your lifestyle
• Exact temperature settings for each room
• Up to 4 time and temperature changes allow flexible control
• Optimum start calculates the amount of heat up time required to ensure warmth when needed and automatically adjusts throughout the year
• Free app which gives a real-time temperature display
To find out more about Nu-Heat’s smart controls, visit: www.nu-heat.co.uk/tsl or call 0800 731 1976.
Read the full BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25779937
