DOMESTIC AIR CONDITIONING
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Air conditioning is getting smarter with companies like LG combining technologies.
ith the increasing popularity of air conditioning in both residential and commercial properties, it’s not surprising that the options available are becoming more sophisticated and homeowners are becoming more demanding. It was only a matter of time before technology that it had built into the home appliances we see advertised on TV, would make its way into its heating and air conditioning equipment. Discovering the convenience of a truly connected life is the way people want to be living – ensuring homes are always cool enough or warm enough when they walk through the door at the end of the day or when arriving back from holidays. This innovative smart home technology is changing the way people run their homes, while taking the effi ciency and convenience of their appliances to new heights.
The next step from LG, for example, is the introduction of ‘deep learning’ into its consumer technology and this has now been introduced into LG’s air conditioning wall mount units. Deep learning allows the air conditioner unit to analyse daily behaviour patterns of its homeowners, including parts of the home most occupied at certain times throughout the day. With this information, the air conditioning is able to assess how to provide the most comfortable temperatures quickly and effi ciently, providing fast cooling to specifi c areas. During the weekend the living room may be the place
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to be, requiring the most cooling, but on the weekdays the kitchen may be the centre of activity. Changing the way our homes are run is becoming a reality. In just a few years we may be seeing this approach as the norm rather than something on a wish list. With the introduction of smart meters, people want to control their homes from afar, with smart heating controls, smart lighting and even smart washing machines and fridges.
So it’s hardly surprising that controlling and monitoring your heating and cooling away from your home by smart phone is growing in popularity. But exactly why are these new units proving so popular and what gives us reason to assume air conditioning has a higher demand? A recent report from BRE suggests that cooling in air conditioning systems may account for as much as a tenth of total electricity consumption across the UK. And our climate is changing whatever the doubters may say. Heat waves are becoming more frequent in this country – particularly in the south east – the number of heatwave days per year increased from fi ve in 1961 to 17 in 2003 and the number is reported to have increased again since then. A number of installers across the UK are installing air conditioning systems as the primary provider of heating, which makes a lot of sense. The same units will provide heating for most of the year and air conditioning when the more frequent, hotter weather strikes.
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