ThermoStat!

The idea

In 2011 I moved into a house with wall-heaters and analog controllers. The problem was, I was used to the flexibility of controlling the temperature from my Central AC in other homes. My first quest was to find a heating control unit that was digital, instead of analog. To my shock, there is maybe 1 or 2 on the entire market for what are considered 'dipole' or 'monopole' line voltage heating units.

These units sit in between the heater and the electrical system of the home. When the thermostat rises to the set temperature range (a 10-15 degree swing), the current to the heating unit is cut, and the heater is disabled.

What we aim to do

What this project aims to do, is to replace the analog control units with a Windows IOT application running on a Raspberry Pi.

The device will be self contained and run a LCD screen with analog control buttons for monitoring status, etc. Each Raspberry pi will run a Windows IoT app which will report to command and control instruction sets. At any given time you can view the temperature in a room, set heating schedules, remotely enable or disable control of the heaters, and run reports of temperature over time in each room.

The end goal

The end goal of this product is to provide 'nest' like automation functionality to people who have in-wall cadet style heaters and no 21st century options for managing them in a competent manner.