Radiator Valve Optimization

Try it below: switch Radiator Valve Optimization on and see what happens to the room temperature and the heating over one week.

1. Select the Link. In Workflows, choose Radiator Valve Optimization. Select which Link you want to deploy the algorithm to. You then end up in the schedule configuration, in two parts: Building & Baseline and Rooms & Schedules.

   Configure Radiator Valve Optimization

   Change Workflow

   Select Link

   Choose a link…

   Radiator Valve Optimization

   1

   Building & Baseline

   Thermal profile & default schedule

   Good (60m) • 16°C

   2

   Rooms & Schedules

   Select rooms & customize schedules

   0 rooms active

2. Set the building insulation and pre-heating. The digital twin needs data in order to create a thermal model of each room. At the start, the pre-heating is set to 60 min during weekdays, with 120 min pre-heating on Mondays. You can modify this with the bar, or change it directly via the advanced tab.

   Building Insulation & Pre-heating

   Insulation Level

   Good: 60 min ramp-up (120 min Mon)

   PoorModerateGoodExcellent

   Well-insulated modern construction with low heat loss.

   Standard Ramp-up Period

   Pre-heating duration before scheduled time

   60min

   Weekend Transition Ramp-up

   Longer pre-heating on Monday after cold weekend

   120min

   Enable Predictive Preheating

   Automatically adjusts pre-heating ramp-up based on weather conditions and insulation level

   You can also enable Predictive Preheating, where a small deviation to the pre-heating will be applied based on predicted weather conditions.

3. Set the comfort profile. The baseline setpoint will be applied to any time outside of the set schedules. For the schedules, you can select which days and what time for the comfort setpoint.

   Baseline Building Schedule

   Baseline Fallback Setpoint

   Default setpoint maintained outside of scheduled comfort hours

   16°C

   Baseline scheduled time slots

   Add Time Slot

   MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

   08:00to18:00Setpoint:21°C

   If you put conflicting schedules, a warning will pop up.

   Baseline scheduled time slots

   Time slots 1 and 2 overlap on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri (08:00 – 18:00). Please adjust schedules so times do not overlap.

   MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

   08:00to18:00Setpoint:21°C

   Overlaps with slot 2 on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri (08:00 – 18:00)

   MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

   08:00to18:00Setpoint:21°C

   Overlaps with slot 1 on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri (08:00 – 18:00)

4. Continue to rooms. Once the comfort schedule is set up, click Next: Continue to Rooms. Here you determine to which rooms this schedule will be applied. If you click Select All Rooms, all rooms receive this schedule. If you disable the toggle of a room, the schedule is removed from that room.

   Building & Baseline

   Thermal profile & default schedule

   Done

   2

   Rooms & Schedules

   Select rooms & customize schedules

   4 rooms active

   Room Selection & Schedules

   Select All RoomsDeselect All

   Meeting room 1

   LoRaWAN · 1 valve

   Office 2

   LoRaWAN · 1 valve

   Canteen

   LoRaWAN · 1 valve

   Office 3

   LoRaWAN · 1 valve

   Back to Building & BaselineSave and Sync to Link

   The rooms shown here are based on the rooms created during the on-site onboarding. If there is more than one radiator valve in a given room, the schedule gets applied to all valves.

5. Edit the schedule of a specific room. If you click on the calendar icon of a room, you can edit the schedule of that specific room, so you can set a different schedule from the main one you defined.

   Meeting room 1

   LoRaWAN · 1 valve

   Fallback Setpoint:16°CPre-heating: 60 min earlier (120 min on Mon) Copy from Reset

   Scheduled Time Slots

   Add slot

   MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

   08:00to18:00Setpoint:21°C

6. Save and Sync to Link. Click Save and Sync to Link to deploy to the Link, and the algorithm is deployed!

After the deployment

As the radiator valves gather data, the model of the room can be created. This process is done automatically behind the scenes. You will receive a notification when it is possible to deploy the digital twin.

You can see the results via the Insights page on the side menu.