JSJS hoping to warm up investors with new heating products

BIRMINGHAM-based home automation and technology firm, JSJS Designs, is aiming to impress investors with the launch of a new heating product range.

The range, which is compatible with the company’s existing range of LightwaveRF products, is said to provide functionality not generally available from the internet-controlled heating products currently on the market.

Unlike other products that have entered the market recently, JSJS said its product range was capable of controlling each and every radiator or electric heater individually.

“This new level of functionality allows the consumer to have full control of their heating wherever they are via the company’s proprietary LightwaveRF Apps and web apps which are usable on any internet connected smartphone, PC, Mac, or tablet,” it said.

The user can set a predetermined temperature for each room where their internet addressable radiator valve or electric heating control is fitted or override the programmed schedule via the app. Devices in each room can then report temperature for that room to the app either individually, via a room thermostat or a house thermostat. The system is designed to be easily retrofitable to most homes and can control most types of boiler with the range’s boiler switch.

The Innovation Birmingham Campus-based company expects consumers will see a reduction in their energy bills  by being able to turn off the heating when not at home and by heating only the rooms in use. It has predicted the system should pay for itself within three to four years.

It has already received a stocking order of over $800,000 from its UK distributor Megaman, which will see the product available in the UK for an April launch.

Mike Lord, JSJS chairman and CEO, said: “We have seen much publicity recently from other providers of internet controllable heating and learning thermostats but we don’t believe that they give the consumer enough control.

“Our system is more sophisticated and gives real control of how we live our lives.”

The new heating system has already been installed under a Technology Strategy Board grant project in partnership with Warwick University. Currently in 20 rooms, the trial is expected to roll out to over 200 rooms during February.