Essential Install | HVAC
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A Warm Welcome
Sensible Heat has
begun offering
voice activated
HVAC solutions
via the Amazon
Alexa platform
Daniel J Sait examines some of the solutions and
companies helping installers make the most of HVAC
integration and installation opportunities.
A key part of this sector of course has been getting
the HVAC systems to talk to the building’s automation
systems, possibly one of the more tricky bits of
integration presented by many a project. Thankfully
the sector has a range of companies who can come
to the rescue here. Sensible Heat continues to supply
HVAC controls for integration with a range of systems,
including Control 4, Savant, Crestron and RTI, using its
range of pre-written drivers which are available free-ofcharge to the company’s installation partners.
Dave Robinson, company MD, explains: “We’ve
seen a steady increase in the demand for these types of
integrated systems and as a complement to these, the
features of the EvoTouch system from HVAC mainstay
Honeywell continue to be expanded.”
Dave adds: “The App which is supplied free-of-charge
with the Honeywell EvoTouch controller, has now been
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1 system. This
extended to work1with
a ‘sister’ intruder
alarm
system, which is particularly useful for smaller properties,
allows alarms and pictures from the combined PIR/camera
sensors to be viewed on the App.
“Also, we’ve made the EvoTouch work with the new
Amazon Echo range, which allows voice activation of
the heating. We did this initially with a unit imported
from the USA; you can see the results on our website.
There’s a short video taken at the Essential Install Live!
show, demonstrating how effective voice control can
be and how easy to use. Now available here in the
UK, one of our partially-sighted customers, inspired
by our video, recentl