Tag: HVAC

HVAC: the importance of humidity to KNX installers

By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. I’m not one for sun worshipping nor am I usually in need of some winter sun. However, this year we’re heading to see friends and family in New Orleans and thought we might stop off for a week in Barbados. Well, it’s been a long year and we can […]

Eelectron Announces New KNX Heating Actuators

Eelectron is delighted to announce the extension of its catalogue with a new range of KNX heating actuators: Main features: – Control of 24 VAC or 230 VAC valves with no relay sound – Inputs (from 1 to 4) can be used as digital or analog – up to 8 thermostats – Freely configurable logics […]

Elsner Elektronik offers Suntracer KNX pro – the Weather Station for KNX professionals

Wind direction detection for optimum protection of buildings and technology The weather station for the KNX building bus system records all relevant weather data for building control, including temperature, brightness, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, humidity and pressure. Temperature (risk of frost), precipitation (moisture) and wind in particular are elementary for the protection of shades […]

KNX Thermostats: intelligence in heating control

By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. It’s getting cold out, well in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, so it must be time for an article about heating control. The decentralised nature of KNX makes it ideal for heating control, particularly in systems with many zones and device types. Integrating UFH with radiators for boost, along with air-conditioning […]

Ingenium Launches KNX Gateway for DAIKIN GW630100 Air Conditioning System

Ingenium has launched a BES KNX gateway between the KNX protocol and the DAIKIN air conditioning system, GW630100. This new product supports one indoor SKY DAIKIN climate unit and the management of its five operating modes (auto, heat, cool, fan or dry) and three ventilation speeds (low, medium or high). It is also possible to […]

The Climate Challenge: the advantages of programmable logic control

By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Well it’s been another extraordinary summer of weather. One stage of the Tour De France had to be cut short due to a snow blizzard in July, that closed a mountain pass. To be more accurate, it was the landslide as a result of the water that caused the […]

Heating: Future Technologies and KNX

By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Whether as individuals, or on a corporate level, we all need to take climate change seriously. For my part, it’s time to change the company van, so naturally I’ve been toying with the idea of getting an electric car. There are a few available now, but they seem to […]

Case Study: KNX Promotes Recovery and Energy Saving in the Defence National Rehabilitation Centre, Loughborough, UK

By Ben Patterson and Paul Murphy, Intecho. The Defence National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) is a newly-constructed GBP300 million world-class medical facility that is located centrally on the Stanford Hall Estate, close to Loughborough, UK. Operated by the Ministry of Defence, the facility provides cutting-edge treatments to injured members of the armed forces for complex injuries, […]

WAGO Announces flexROOM Room Automation with KNX and SMI Interfaces

WAGO‘s flexROOM® Application was specifically designed for user-friendly room automation, allowing a building’s lighting, shading and temperature to be quickly and easily controlled. In addition to WAGO‘s standard I/O modules and building-specific DALI and EnOcean systems, both the SMI and KNX interfaces are integrated into flexROOM®, enabling a large number of room control units to […]