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As word starts to get around about Heat-Timer® Genesis, we’re getting many questions about this revolutionary new technology for saving money on fuel in small buildings. Here’s answers to a few of the most common questions. For more detailed information, please feel free to call our team at (973) 575-4004

How many space sensors does Genesis come with? The Genesis Control comes with three space sensors but can support up to 5.

How much can I expect to save in fuel consumption? You can expect to save up to 30% on fuel usage.

How do I access the building my control is in? The Genesis is fully mobile and internet enabled. You can access the control from any computer, tablet, or smartphone using our web portal or free mobile app.

Is the web and mobile experience the same as the one used for Heat-Timer® Platinum Controls? Yes, the portal, the mobile app, and the alarms, emails, and text alerts and ability to monitor and control your boiler are the same.

How long will the sensor batteries last? Battery life is over 10 years, thanks to use of the latest low power electronics.

Can the Genesis operate with Steam based Heating? The Heat-Timer Genesis® Can operate perfectly on either steam or hot water, single boiler systems.

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For larger apartment and co-op buildings, Heat-Timer’s Platinum Series Boiler Controls have been the industry leading solution to saving energy for a long time.  Among HVAC professionals the phrase “Why don’t you install a Heat-Timer®” is both a general statement and a brand endorsement in discussions of energy efficiency and boiler room upgrades. 

Smaller apartment buildings of 20 units or less with forward thinking managers have also taken advantage of the Platinum series control.  For some, the cost of the world’s most effective heating control especially in colder climates, was justifiable when considering the money saved on utility bills every month, and the ease of remote monitoring and management that a fully internet enabled platinum control brings.

Right Sizing the Platinum Control for Small Buildings

It turns out that a lightweight version of our Platinum Internet Control is a huge win for small building owners.  With smaller up-front costs, return on investment (ROI) is greatly accelerated for small buildings of 20 units or less.

The Heat-Timer Genesis™ has several parts that make this investment a no-brainer for small building owners and managers:

Remote Alarms sent via text message and/or email. Set up thresholds for multiple alarm conditions and get notified before problems happen. 

Internet Management Portal – Use any browser to go to our management website to view your entire portfolio of buildings. Drill down to see control settings, alarms, and heating graphs or reports of activity and cycling from the comfort of your couch.

Heat-Timer® Mobile App – On the road? Did you get an alarm from a      Heat-Timer® control in one of your buildings? Checking things out is a      piece of cake by just firing up our app on your phone and drilling into      building data. Most parameters impacting boiler operation are modifiable   right from our phone app.  Works on iPhone and Android devices, a      free download from the app store.

 Call a Heat-Timer® Rep Today to Talk about the Genesis of Heating Technology

Heat-Timer Genesis™ is shipping today. It’s not too late to get one installed for the upcoming heating season, after all, it’s easy.

* Actual Savings may vary. Monthly savings is dependent on actual number of heating degree days.  https://www.heat-timer.com/

Content- At a high level, there are really two key area’s where Heat-Timer Genesis™ pushes the envelope of capability for a modern heating control. One area is certainly its ability to save small building owners on fuel costs while maintaining even better resident comfort. But the other area is certainly its ability to improve the quality of life, and ease of use for building managers, owners, supers and HVAC technicians alike, owing to its completely internet and mobile enabled interactions.

Heating Control Remote Alarms

One key area is that of remote alarms. Genesis Heat-Timer ™ can send real-time alarms to designated users via either email or text, or within the free Heat-Timer® Mobile App. Furthermore, alarm thresholds can be set based on user preference. There are also more types of alarms available than ever before, and these alarms provide instant and clear indication as to what they are and where the problem is located. In many cases an alarm condition can be managed remotely, or a technician can be called, without ever needing to visit the boiler room.

Heat-Timer® Mobile App

From a quality-of-life standpoint, the visibility the free mobile app provides, means that you don’t really have to get off the couch to work a problem. The Mobile App is designed to show building managers a bird’s eye view of their building portfolio and allow them to drill into any property instantly. Small buildings using Heat-Timer Genesis™ can be viewed alongside larger buildings using our Heat-Timer® Platinum Series controls that are BuildingNet enabled.

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One of the key features that sets Genesis Heat-Timer™ apart from other heating controls is the inclusion of pre-programmed wireless space sensors.  The base product includes three space sensors but can connect to up to 5 for appropriate coverage of a typical small building of 20 units or less.

Installing the space sensors couldn’t be easier, simply mount them on the wall with the provided hardware in an apartment.  The wireless sensors with their extended range, will report space temperatures directly to Genesis without need of repeaters or additional network hubs.

The space sensors perform a key role in the control of the heating system.  By utilizing building temperature readings from all areas of the building along with the outside temperature, algorithms actually self-learn the heating characteristics of your building.

The best part for building owners is that the Genesis Heat-Timer™, utilizing its space sensors, is able to do this using the absolute minimum amount of fuel possible without sacrificing resident comfort.  You can expect to save up to 30% on your fuel costs this winter, while maintaining a uniformity of building temperatures you never would have thought possible.

The Wireless Space Sensors last up to 10+ years before battery replacement is needed.  Battery status for each sensor is viewable remotely through the internet portal as well.

For more information about the Genesis Heat-Timer™ please view our website https://www.heat-timer.com/the-genesis/      

   The Heat-Timer® Announces the Launch of     Genesis Heat-Timer

“A New Energy Management System for Small                                          Buildings”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 1st, 2022                         

Heat-Timer® Corporation Fairfield, New Jersey 

Heat-Timer®, a leader in commercial heating controls since 1937, announces the launch of their new product, Genesis Heat-Timer™. The Genesis Heat-Timer™ heating control is an extremely cost-effective solution for both steam and hot water heating systems in single boiler applications (20 units or less). 

Genesis Heat-Timer™ features a unique self-learning algorithm that incorporates outdoor air temperature along with in-unit ambient feedback to anticipate and compensate for the unique heat loss characteristics of your building.  With this self-learning feature in place, Genesis Heat-Timer™ can regulate your building and provide up to 30% savings on monthly energy bills while improving resident comfort.  You pick the temperature you want your building to maintain, and the Genesis Heat-Timer™ does the rest.  

Jeff Clerico, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, describes the Genesis Heat-Timer™ online portal as a time-saver for building owners/managers. “Our user-friendly online portal and Mobile App allow complete and seamless visibility into all of your buildings remotely, to eliminate those unexpected and inconvenient trips to the boiler room.  You can modify all key heating parameters, receive important alerts via text/email, and check live apartment temperatures on the fly.”

The Genesis Heat-Timer™ is a true out of the box Energy Management System. In addition to getting your heat under control, the Genesis Heat-Timer™ acts as the eyes and ears within your boiler room, alerting you in real-time when problems arise before residents are impacted.  From leak/flood detection and boiler health, to domestic hot water temperature and beyond, the Genesis Heat-Timer™ has you covered.  

The Genesis Heat-Timer™ is now available for ordering. For more information on how Genesis Heat-Timer™ can help your building please click the link below or call us directly at (973) 575-4004. https://www.heat-timer.com/ht_products/genesis/      

The Heat-Timer® Announces the Launch of  Genesis Heat-Timer™ “A New Energy Management System for Small Buildings”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 1st, 2022                         

Heat-Timer® Corporation Fairfield, New Jersey 

Heat-Timer®, a leader in commercial heating controls since 1937, announces the launch of their new product, Genesis Heat-Timer™. The Genesis Heat-Timer™ heating control is an extremely cost-effective solution for both steam and hot water heating systems in single boiler applications (20 units or less). 

Genesis Heat-Timer™ features a unique self-learning algorithm that incorporates outdoor air temperature along with in-unit ambient feedback to anticipate and compensate for the unique heat loss characteristics of your building.  With this self-learning feature in place, Genesis Heat-Timer™ can regulate your building and provide up to 30% savings on monthly energy bills while improving resident comfort.  You pick the temperature you want your building to maintain, and the Genesis Heat-Timer™ does the rest.  

Jeff Clerico, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, describes the Genesis Heat-Timer™ online portal as a time-saver for building owners/managers. “Our user-friendly online portal and Mobile App allow complete and seamless visibility into all of your buildings remotely, to eliminate those unexpected and inconvenient trips to the boiler room.  You can modify all key heating parameters, receive important alerts via text/email, and check live apartment temperatures on the fly.”

The Genesis Heat-Timer™ is a true out of the box Energy Management System. In addition to getting your heat under control, the Genesis Heat-Timer™ acts as the eyes and ears within your boiler room, alerting you in real-time when problems arise before residents are impacted.  From leak/flood detection and boiler health, to domestic hot water temperature and beyond, the Genesis Heat-Timer™ has you covered.  

The Genesis Heat-Timer™ is now available for ordering. For more information on how Genesis Heat-Timer™ can help your building please click the link below or call us directly at (973) 575-4004. https://www.heat-timer.com/ht_products/genesis/      

For smaller apartment and office buildings having less than 20 units, justifying the expense of installing the industry leading boiler heating control system has sometimes been tough. 

Don’t get us wrong, small building managers and owners want to save money on fuel costs every bit as much as the big guys, especially in the northern regions of the country. And given that modern heating controls like the Heat-Timer® Platinum series have been shown to save anywhere from 15% to 50% on monthly heating costs, you would think that installing the industry leading heating control in a small apartment building would be a no-brainer.

If only life were so simple. It turns out that for savvy small building managers, the problem is math. In general, building managers are looking for heating upgrades to pay for themselves in fuel savings within 2-3 years. If the cost of the upgrade is largely fixed, then the more money you save, the quicker the payback.

So let’s do the math. Let’s assume some heating upgrade we are considering that includes a new heating control system will cost 20K installed and we conservatively project a savings of 20% per month on our heating bills as a result. It stands to reason that the larger your fuel bills, the more money you will save each month.

Here’s a graph that tells the story. The original data is from a real 100 Unit apartment building in NYC.

So a building that uses an average of $54,000/yr of energy could be expected to save 20% or $11000 on energy costs in its first year, assuming all other things remain equal. Allowing for normal fluctuations in fuel costs and the changing severity of winters it’s pretty clear that payback for a heating control investment happens sometime late in year 1 or early in year 2, exactly the kind of math that large building owners like.

Smaller Apartment Building, Different Math

Now let’s look at that same investment in a small building complex of less that 25 units.  Since overall heating costs are lower, you save fewer dollars each month at the same percentage savings (20%). It takes longer here, to recover that fixed up-front investment.

For some small building owners, even this extended payout is worth it. Possibly they are in a colder area of the country or have an older building that is not energy efficient and spend more on energy. Possibly their situation is such that a heating control like our Heat-Timer® Platinum Series with internet and wireless apartment sensors will save them even more than the 20% conservatively estimated here. Perhaps the installation is also being done to comply with local laws enacted to cut greenhouse gas emissions and so there is a compelling legal reason. They may also be entitled to rebates from a number of city and state incentives for installation of these kinds of heating upgrades which reduces or even eliminates the upfront investment.  All these considerations would act to either make the ROI for small buildings much more of a “no-brainer” or make longer payback more tolerable.

Or perhaps these small building owners/managers are simply more forward looking and see that they are in this for the long haul and don’t mind the longer payback. We have seen some of the most successful building management companies in the country take this longer view as they standardize their entire building portfolio around Heat-Timer® products.  They gain energy savings for sure, but they also achieve product and training standardization, as well as centralized, internet-based portfolio management system for all their buildings. A centralized real-time, view, centralized reporting, and centralized monitoring and control via cell phone or internet. That’s a massive management EZ-button for serious building management professionals.

The Final Word on Heating Controls for Small Apartment Buildings

There are many reasons that heating controls like the Heat-Timer® Platinum Series can be justified, and are cost effective for smaller buildings. But if none of these reasons work for you and you are still wholly focused on the cost of this upgrade, then either you won’t do it all, or you’ll look for a cheaper solution with smaller upfront costs.  After all, that’s another way to recover the costs of an upgrade sooner if all other things are equal.

Putting this into graphical form again tells the story.  If we cut the cost of installation in the small building from $20K up front to closer to $10K, and keep all other assumptions the same, then our small apartment graph looks much nicer!

The problem with simply buying a cheaper control with cheaper installation costs is that all other things are not equal. To put it simply, some of the low-cost commercial controls you are likely to consider, will not deliver. The yearly fuel savings they advertise may claim 25% or more. But if you achieve 25% reduction of heating costs in a building with a low-cost control, then it is likely you would have achieved 35% – 40% cost reduction with a Heat-Timer® control. The problem is that you will now become locked into a simpler, cheaper solution that without a doubt, will not deliver the resident comfort, management convenience, mobile control, and fuel cost reductions, that the world’s leading boiler control can deliver. And down the road when you realize this, you’ll be looking at another significant upgrade investment.

If only small building managers could get the class leading performance of a Heat-Timer® Platinum Series Internet Control in a lower cost package designed specifically for small apartment complexes. 

If only…(-:

The Genesis Heat-Timer™ – Designed for Small Building Managers

Spoiler alert: Heat-Timer® is proud to announce that your patience reading this long blog will be rewarded! It turns out that as of August 1st, 2022, a heating control designed specifically for small building owners of 20 units or less, will be available. Our new control, the Genesis Heat-Timer™, has the same industry leading, energy saving performance as our top of the line Platinum Series, and the same internet monitoring and wireless connectivity for up to 5 remote sensors. With this heating control, up-front equipment and installation costs are significantly reduced. Payback in most cases is within 1 – 2 years using conservative estimates of energy savings. Even faster now, given the high cost of fuel expected this winter. 

Stay tuned to our website and social media for information on the next evolution of heating automation, the Genesis Heat-Timer™ .

https://www.heat-timer.com/ht_products/genesis/

Boiler Control Systems – Why they matter even for Small Buildings.

The cost of energy to run large heating systems like those found in office buildings, schools, apartment complexes, government buildings, and industrial buildings can constitute some of the highest expenses in your P&L statement, coming right off your bottom line. For building managers, it’s a never-ending balance between keeping your residents or work area’s comfortable, without paying too much for energy.  As such it has become essential that building operations managers implement technology and systems that reduce these costs without compromising on comfort.  With utility bills running into the tens of thousands of dollars a month, even a fairly small percentage decrease in heating costs can quickly pay for the cost of installation of a modern boiler control system.

But what about the manager of smaller, say 20-unit garden apartment, with a single boiler in the boiler room? Will the hassle and expense of installing a commercial heating control be worth it?  How will they ever install it in my old building?  My boiler already has built in energy management controls and outdoor temperature monitoring, why do I need more than that?

It’s all about Return on Investment (ROI)

In the northern half of the country, heating costs can consume anywhere from 60 to 90% of your overall energy bill, especially during a cold winter, or older buildings with older boiler equipment or inefficient heating configurations. But in 2022, heating control manufacturers like Heat-Timer® have introduced systems that address the problems of retrofit, wireless integration, internet and mobile control, as well as maximizing heating efficiency.  Modern Heating Control systems like the Heat-Timer® Platinum Series, utilizes wireless space sensors to detect building temperatures and learns the heat-loss profile of your building. The control uses this information to carefully control one or more boilers and to anticipate demand and improve heating efficiency over time. 

State of the art heating controls like the Heat-Timer® Platinum, cost a small fraction of what the energy savings will be over time, even in a small building.  Studies have shown that a Heat-Timer® Platinum series control with space feedback can save anywhere from 15% to 30% more on fuel costs than a high efficiency boiler with just an onboard outdoor reset control, running on its own.  That’s because without the ability to get temperature feedback from inside the building(units), the adjustments a standalone boiler makes in firing are coarse, and ultimately limited.  We have seen many a super simply bypass the boiler control due to complaints from residents, making the boiler/s operation even less efficient. Without direction from a smart control that actually knows what’s going on with temperatures throughout the building, the so-called “smart boiler,” will fail to satisfy the human factors associated with heat management.

Save Money, Be Green

While this has been all about maximizing energy savings, there’s more to to be gained by implementing a state-of-the-art heating control system.  The environmental benefits are significant, as is any investment that reduces energy usage. This in turn lowers emissions and waste, contributing to a lower carbon footprint. 

Then there’s another kind of green benefit: government subsidies. To offset the initial investment of introducing energy efficient heating systems to your buildings,  there are often state and federal rebates to support these types of eco-friendly investments because they take pressure off the energy grid and are part of various state run “green” initiatives. Like New York City’s Local Law 97 which legally requires your commercial building to reduce its carbon footprint over the next several years.  Motivating, isn’t it?

Heating Control Systems By Heat Timer®

With energy prices skyrocketing, it has become easier than ever to justify the cost of a modern heating control system, whether your building is large or small.

Call your local Commercial HVAC contractor today.  And ask them about Heat-Timer®

Or contact us directly.  For questions or information visit https://heat-timer.com