The building comprises of a combination of serviced offices, conference rooms, training rooms, and an in-house restaurant. Andrew Campbell, owner and manager of The Mount, was familiar with the Genius Hub system because he had had it installed in his home two years earlier. Having seen what the system can do, he decided to have it installed on a much larger scale in his business and conference centre.
“The Mount Business & Conference Centre in Belfast is a large commercial building with a mixture of underfloor heating and radiators. The heating system was controlled by the Building Management System (BMS) with sensors in different areas to try and zone the system. In addition to the BMS, the radiators had thermostatic valves and the rooms with underfloor heating had individual thermostats.”
“There are actually a number of different features that I like about the system:
- Ease of use: Of the software on both the computer and phone app.
- Control: It allows me to remotely control the heating system at an individual room level.
- Information: Until the Genius system was installed we had no way of knowing what temperature a room was at without going to the room. Now, the information provided by the system allows us to provide a better customer experience by ensuring that when the rooms and offices are in use they are at a comfortable temperature. The Genius system also helped us identify a number of faults in our heating system such as faulty actuators and seized pins on the underfloor heating loops.
- Reduced energy consumption: Using the Genius system to control the air-conditioning systems has significantly reduced energy wastage by ensuring the air-con is not left running when a room is unoccupied.
And as it is not possible to turn on the air-conditioning when the heating is on, this stops the two systems working against each other.”
“The Genius system is extremely user friendly on both PC and Genius Hub App. Setting up and changing heating timings is done in seconds.”
