Heating systems · Boilers, tanks and zones
A fire that went out, a boiler that locked out or a pump that quit shows up as a cold house hours later. Know when it happens, from wherever you are.
What it is
A wall-mounted panel with sensors on your boiler, tanks and piping, and a dashboard on your phone that alerts you when a reading is wrong.
It works with outdoor and indoor wood boilers, solar thermal, oil and gas boilers and storage tanks, in any mix. Sensors strap onto pipes or use existing wells, so nothing in the heating system has to be cut into.
Interested? Request a callbackBoiler, storage tank top and bottom, supply and return, and each zone, on one drawing of your own system.
A falling supply temperature tells you the wood fire needs loading or the burner did not light.
A room or a pipe heading toward freezing raises an alert while there is still time to act.
With a flow sensor the panel works out the heat going into storage and out to the building.
Standard system
If you want the panel to run pumps, valves, draft fans and the backup burner as well, the control package is built per system and quoted separately.
Alerts
| Alert | What sets it off |
|---|---|
| Fire out or supply cold | Supply temperature below your limit for longer than the delay you set. |
| Storage tank low | Tank temperature drops below the floor you set. |
| Freeze risk | A room, pipe or outdoor loop is close to freezing. |
| Boiler or tank too hot | A temperature goes above its high limit. |
| Burner lockout | The backup burner was called and did not light. |
| Pump stopped or no flow | A pump that should be running is not, or the flow has stopped. |
| Power failure | Utility power lost, and again when it returns. |
| Panel offline | The panel itself stops reporting. |
Limits and delays are set for your system and can be changed at any time.
Our own system
We built the first one for ourselves in Bradford, Vermont. It manages an outdoor wood boiler, an indoor wood boiler, a solar array and a gas backup burner feeding three storage tanks and the heating zones.
Our dashboard, live. The outdoor sensors are still being installed, which is why some readings are blank.
Common questions
Outdoor and indoor wood boilers, pellet boilers, solar thermal, oil and gas boilers, storage tanks and hydronic zones, in any mix.
No. Temperature sensors strap onto pipes or use existing wells. A flow sensor is the one part that goes in a pipe, and it is optional.
Yes. Ours runs the pumps, the valve, the draft fans and the backup burner and lets us change setpoints from a phone. Control is built per system and quoted separately.
No. High limits, low water cut-offs and the other safety devices stay hardwired and work without the panel.
No. The panel carries its own cellular connection.
A one-time price for the panel and sensors, then a monthly monitoring fee. Both depend on how many points you want watched, so call for a quote.
Where we work
Get in touch
Tell us what heats the building and what has gone wrong before. We will come back with a sensor list and a price.
What else we offer
Bulk tank temperature and cooling time, wash water, hot water, vacuum, plate cooler and power.
Explore→Vacuum at the pump and in the woods, sap tank levels, pump house temperature and power at remote sites.
Explore→Sensors dropped into your coolers, freezers and cases. We watch temperatures and touch nothing else.
Explore→Tell us what the equipment has to do. We write and test the program and send it to you to load.
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