Quick wins for improving efficiency with heating controls

Smart heating controls, like thermostats, are beneficial in managing and controlling your home's energy usage. However, smart heating controls go further than a traditional thermostat, as they incorporate both internal and external temperatures via weather and load compensation to give you a more accurate temperature reading.

The efficiency of heating controls

Many people are looking to make more environmentally friendly choices whilst also keeping their costs to a minimum. Upgrading your heating system by implementing a smart control is a great way for homeowners to combat the energy usage surge and take control of their heating, tailoring it to meet their specific needs.

Why choose smart controls?

Installing a Glow-worm smart controls in your home alongside your Glow-worm boiler will allow the two to communicate via our eBUS protocol, ensuring that your system works efficiently to maintain your desired temperature.

Smart controls allow you to set your ideal room temperature through load and weather compensation. Weather compensation systems use internal and external temperature, like the air surrounding your home, whereas load compensation focuses entirely on monitoring internal temperature to ensure your heating doesn’t work harder than it needs to and reducing energy needed.

Additionally, some smart controls enable you to program your heating schedule through the Glow-worm MiGo link app, so you can set when you want your heating to be switched on and off, based on your lifestyle and energy needs. Public Health England suggests that home temperature should be around 18°C

What makes the MiSet stand out?

When paired with a Glow-worm boiler, the MiSet smart control makes sure you can always get peak performance out of your system while meeting your own heating requirements. The MiSet’s technology allows you to:

• Control your heating via a semi-touch interface
• Set times for when you want the heating to turn on or change through our time programming assistant
• Achieve optimum efficiency through the modulation of your boiler

The MiSet is available as either a wireless or wired model to give you greater flexibility.

What is the MiGo Link app?

There are various benefits to using the Glow-worm MiGo Link app that will help make your home more efficient. These include:

• All in one place: The MiGo Link app, compatible with both Android and iOS, allows for quick and easy temperature adjustments via your smartphone.
• Take complete control: The app helps you learn your home’s unique energy needs by allowing you to set specific temperatures for different zones within your home, as well as providing a function to add more homes.
• Precise planning: The weekly planner feature lets you add and edit specific time periods for when you want your heating on and the temperature you want each zone adjusted to. These settings can then be set and copied across different days.
• Universal compatibility: Works seamlessly with all Glow-worm boilers.

By using the MiGo Link app, installers can position themselves as trusted advisors, and our support team can help with any queries via the ‘send feedback’ function so homeowners can achieve optimal comfort while saving on energy bills.