The Problem
When it comes to the heating and cooling of your buildings, space temperatures are difficult to control. Consider your building’s heating challenges.
Negative Pressure
When air is heated it rises upward inside the building through ducts, pipe shafts, elevator shafts and stairwells. As the heat rises it creates a
negative pressure that sucks in even more outdoor air, especially at the lower levels of the building.
Occupants Tendencies
Many occupants adjust their thermostats up or down to suit how they feel, with some preferring high thermostat settings.
ON / OFF Tendencies
Electric baseboard heaters are normally fully ON or fully OFF and their output does not match their heat loss.
Overcapacity
The electric baseboard heaters in many of these buildings are usually oversized for the required heating load, since they have fixed increments
of capacity and must have equal or greater capacity than the required heat loss. This overcapacity problem becomes even worse when the outdoor temperature is NOT subfreezing, which is most of the heating season.
Open Windows
When an apartment is too warm the tenant’s usual reaction is to open a window. Cool air enters if the window is facing the wind, but air may only exit on the other exposures.
Overheating Surrounding Areas
Many of these same reasons apply to gas heating as well, even where each unit has its own furnace, an adjacent overheated space also overheats the surrounding spaces.
Insulation
Many interior walls and floors of apartment units are not insulated, so that Open windows on all but the lowest floors encourage even more heated air to rise in the building, drawing in even more outdoor air at the lower levels.
The Solution
Stack’s Intelligent Energy System!
The smartest thing you can do for you heating & cooling budget.
The only Energy Control System on the planet that delivers a 20 percent decrease on your heating and cooling costs each and every month. Saving you thousands of dollars in the process! Here's how it works...
Lower Impact
on the environment
Control Energy Use
STACK’S Intelligent System is designed to control energy use for heating and cooling multi-unit residential buildings.
Full Control and Monitoring
The system enables remote monitoring and control of temperature as well as reduction of peak demand through a temperature-based duty-cycling algorithm developed specifically for the application.
Control
temperature in each residential unit according to profile
Central Digital Control
The heart of our TECHNOLOGY is a central digital control system providing temperature control and monitoring. The system is fully configurable and allows the management to set the desired temperature range in each apartment unit and control the amount of heat allocated to each unit individually. The management can also configure different night temperature if the city or local municipality bylaw allows night setback.
Reduce Irresponsible Heating
STACK’S Intelligent Energy System greatly reduces the irresponsible heat usage, when in-unit thermostats are often set to the highest temperature settings and open windows control perceived overheating. The system is Guaranteed to reduce your heating and cooling costs by 20 % in buildings with either electric or gas heating and air conditioning.
Optimize & Reduce
cost of Time-Of-Use pricing periods
Changing Tenant Perceptions
Our Intelligent Technology does NOT solely rely on thermostats located in apartment units. This simply means that if the tenants choose to keep windows or balcony doors open they will have to accept a lower space temperature no matter how they set their thermostats. If they want to stay comfortable, they have to be concerned about reducing the loss of heat through open balcony doors or windows. Adjacent units will still be maintained at more comfortable temperatures.
TOU Pricing
Additional reduction of expenses by optimizing heating for Time-of-Use (TOU) pricing.
Manage
day and night temperature variations
Programmable Logic
Our System is based on an industrial grade programmable logic controller (computer). The controller governs a series of solid-state relays capable of millions of cycles of operation. Those relays control apartment electric baseboard heaters or boilers duty cycle,pumps output, and flow control valves in case of gas heating.
Heating by Algorithms
A proprietary algorithm controls heat allocation using data gained by an outdoor temperature sensor, wind speed and direction sensor, humidity sensor and multiple interior temperature sensors. The chill factor is measured via the ultrasonic wind speed and direction sensor for controlling the heat distribution in the building.
STACK’S Intelligent Energy System has a special algorithm for high-rise buildings with heat inertia. The optimization incorporates the thermal properties of building walls and floors to preserve heat after outdoor temperature drops as well as the opposite effect when it takes longer to warm up the building although the outdoor temperature rises.
Balance
heat distribution due to wind and sun affects
Location is Key
Windward facing apartments receive more heat to maintain comfortable temperature level. Downwind facing apartments can maintain a comfortable temperature level with less heat due to the heat transfer through the building. The humidity sensor provides additional control of the heat allocation.
Regulate
temperature fluctuation
More Sensors
Additional temperature sensors inside a building allow the system to automatically make necessary adjustments to the heat level as needed.
Secure Controls
The system is configurable by the management and access to the Control Panel is password protected.
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STACK Energy Corp.
627 Lyons Lane Unit 201 Oakville ON L6J 5Z7
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