Boost Mode
MClimate Enterprise offers a wide-variety of features in order for clients to have the freedom to manage their buildings as they see fit. The platform is centered around real time monitoring and management, however it does have a number of very useful features that automate certain device behavior.
Heating profiles are one such powerful tool that allows you to pre-define time periods where your heating installation is aiming at maintaining the environmental conditions within certain boundaries. Once to a device/s a heating profile takes control.
Heating profiles in essence limit tenant capabilities, preventing them from adjusting the target temperature in a space, room, etc. Instead these are enforced on a building management lever. This is great for most cases, however some proprietors might want to give control to their clients, at least to some degree. This is where Manual Boost Mode comes in.
Manual Boost
This feature applies only if you have set up a Heating profile in your building and have applied it to one or more devices. If you have not set up one, go to the Heating profile section to get started and set up Default boost time.
In order to properly utilize it, we need to give an explanation of its underlying mechanics.
When you have a heating profile it controls its assigned devices based on timeslots. You set up a temperature for a certain period of time and during this time the Heating profile instructs devices to adhere to the slot's Target temperature. Simply put for the given period of time all devices with this Heating profile will have the same Target temperature.
A Boost is what happens when the Target temperature is adjusted when a Heating profile is in effect and it is timed as it will automatically revert to the heating schedule at some point.
Use-cases
There are two example good cases that give good insights into the usefulness of the feature:
You have an installation and you want to optimize heating via Heating profiles, but you want to leave tenants a little bit of a wiggle room, to adjust settings to their own preference. You set up a default boost time aiming to strike a balance between serving them and optimizing your system performance
You lock down tenant control completely, for example using the Vicki Child lock functionality (you can enable/disable it in the ), yet you want to have the ability to adjust heating when needed (client request) remotely.
Manual Temperature changed and Default boost time
When you create a profile you are given the option to change the Default boost time. This is a parameter that determines how long the Boost will last for, given a time is not specified.
Boosting using Enterprise
Let us look at an example to better understand this functionality. The Vicki in the image below is operating under a heating profile, where it is currently in a period where the Target Tempe is 24°C .If we adjust it to 23°C via Enterprise it applies a boost for the default boost time (2 hours in this case). It shows when the boost will end and how much time is left till the end time (this value updates as time goes by so you know how much time is left).
Boosting using the Device
Let us look at another example, one that is likely to happen in a building with tenants for example. Let's assume that you have a number of Vickis that are utilizing a heating profile. The profile is set to 24°C for the time period, however a tenant decides to increase the temperature to 27°C via by rotating the Vicki crown. This will send a command via the LoRaWAN network to Enterprise and the default boost time will be applied. As a result the Target temperature will change to 27 in the platform and the proper timings will be displayed (1:59 as it starts the timer for the 2 hours immediately).
Summary
Heating profiles in combination with the Boost functionality are a powerful tool as they allow a deeper level of automation of a building.
Costs are optimized as you need not waste energy when there are no occupants. You can multiple profiles, you can set different ones for different device, there is a lot of customization that allows one to tailor the system for a specific space.
Comfort is not sacrificed as you still give a measure of control to tenants so they can adjust the environment to their liking, but you can at the same time set reasonable limits, striking a balance
Get one step further in optimizing your heating system, explore Heating profiles and Boost settings and find what best fits your use-case.
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