Controlling the Heating of Rooms

摘要

In a building, electric storage heaters (204) receive off peak electricity, generate thermal energy and store this thermal energy for later release. Each storage heater has a local control device (201) for controlling thermal energy generated during the reception of the off peak electricity. Each local control device receives a generation schedule from a building control device (207). Each building control device controls many local control devices and transmits information to a central control device (208). The central control device transmits generation schedules to many building control devices. Each schedule is constructed in response to room related data supplied by the local control devices, building related data supplied by the building control devices and regional data supplied to the central control device.

主权项

1. Apparatus for heating a plurality of rooms in a plurality of buildings, comprising:
a plurality of electric storage heaters configured to receive off-peak electricity, generate thermal energy and store said thermal energy for later release; wherein each said electric storage heater has a local control device configured to control thermal energy generation during the reception of said off-peak electricity, and to receive a generation schedule from a building control device; wherein said building control devices are configured to control a plurality of local control devices and to transmit information to a central control device; said central control device is configured to transmit generation schedules to a plurality of building control devices, in which each said schedule is constructed in response to room-related data supplied to said local control devices, building related data supplied to said building control devices, and regional data supplied to said central control device.