Intelligent heating regulation

Abstract

Heating through own boiler is very widespread and popular. However, most of heating systems do not solve or solve inefficiently the heating regulation. Mostly, a residential unit contains one central thermostat controlling the boiler but cannot set different temperatures in individual rooms. Possible solution is to measure the temperature in every room and control valves on individual radiators. These solutions use proprietary communication protocols and they are unreasonably expensive. Controlling algorithm is fixed without a possibility of an adjustment. By the design and realization of own regulation we gain not only financial savings, but we mainly improve client’s convenience. This article represents possibilities of smart heating solution using Arduino platform that provides enough performance and also supports effective programming and open source solution utilization.