Enhance Your VRF/VRV HVAC With CoolMaster
CoolMaster is a universal gateway that facilitates the integration of any VRF or VRV HVAC system with home & building automation systems while also providing access to CoolAutomation's cloud-based control, monitoring, service, and management tools.
In this blog post, we’ll break down the many ways in which CoolMaster benefits home automation integrators, HVAC technical service providers, and facility managers. We will begin by detailing the challenges each HVAC professional encounters when approaching a VRF/VRV system and follow by exploring how connecting it to a CoolMaster helps meet their needs.
Home Automation Integrators
The Challenge
Home automation integrators strive to achieve an easy integration between smart home controllers and VRF/VRV HVACs.However, when arriving on-site and discovering that a VRF/VRV HVAC is installed, integrators tend to encounter a recurring challenge: each VRF/VRV HVAC brand has a different communication protocol that is closed and proprietary.
They know that this is going to be a complex integration that will require them to provide a mediation device from the specific manufacturer or have the manufacturer provide the integrator with a unique protocol. However, this is not always available, potentially requiring a lot of time and effort in the integration process.
The Solution
CoolMaster allows home automation integrators to seamlessly, universally, and natively integrate VRF/VRV HVAC into any home automation system. It also enables the connection of HVAC systems to leading smart home devices (such as Google Home and Amazon's Alexa).As a plug-and-play device, CoolMaster is simple to install and saves home automation integrators precious time.
HVAC Technical Service Providers
The Challenge
Many HVAC technical service providers are familiar with this routine: arriving on-site only to discover they’re carrying the wrong set of tools for the HVAC malfunction they were called to fix.In another scenario, they receive a service call that sounds complex and send their company’s most valuable workforce, a VRF engineer, to perform the fix. Once the engineer arrives on-site to address the issue, he discovers that it’s actually quite minor - and ends up wasting his time in traffic and solving a problem that a junior HVAC service provider could have resolved.
The Solution
Connecting the HVAC system to a CoolMaster facilitates a connection to CoolAutomation’s cloud solutions, including the HVAC Predictive Maintenance Suite, which allows you to constantly and remotely monitor the performance of all connected HVAC systems on all connected sites.Not only that, the suite also allows you to remotely diagnose and solve errors, helping reduce VRF engineers' on-site visits to the required minimum.
Facility Managers
The Challenge
Facility managers need to manage VRF/VRV HVAC systems on multiple floors, buildings, or sites and require a way to easily monitor and manage these different locations through a single interface- something that is not always available to them. They are also required to optimize the facilities’ energy consumption.The Solution
CoolMaster allows facility managers to control VRF/VRV HVAC systems in different locations and buildings under their management easily and remotely through a single interface.This is done through the Advanced HVAC Operations Suite, which empowers facility managers to stay on top of things, inspect the operational trends of each HVAC system, and diagnose recurring malfunctions remotely.
Not only that, CoolMaster allows facility managers to integrate building automation systems with HVAC, enabling them to remotely set effective scheduling (according to hours of the day/temperature), limit users' ability to change the system’s temperature, make seasonal adjustments, and pre-set regulated temperatures. These tools facilitate energy efficiency and help reduce facility energy bills.
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