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Nokia and Danfoss reveal future plans to control heating from a mobile phone (17/4/2009)

Nokia participated as a guest of Danfoss at the ISH seminar in Frankfurt. Together they outlined a new concept of controlling radiators from a Nokia mobile phone. A solution that enables controlling the temperature of individual rooms from your mobile phone.

The main audience of the seminar, HVAC installers received the concept with high interest. Clear feedback, however, was that such a system with new technology must be extremely easy to install. Hence, Nokia and Danfoss are working hard together to make sure that the solution is not only easy to install but also especially simple and practical to use.

Another message raised from the conversations with the industry leaders and analysts was that heating systems are going through major changes. Global warming and many different regulations derived from it put pressure to the future of heating systems. They must be more efficient. One part of the equation is to increase the involvement and understanding of homeowners regarding their own heating system. After all, a major part of total consumption of energy goes to either heating or cooling.

The first step is to present consumers with information about which rooms are heated and give him/her a chance to easily adjust temperatures from one point remotely or locally. Later, they would be shown how it is possible to connect the heating system with external information such as weather forecasts, outside temperature or electricity consumption data. Motivation, for example, to lower temperature by 1 degree (as many experts suggest) grows if you can verify the results by yourself in your own real time energy consumption.

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