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OEM:
Vaillant Group as a pioneer for combined heat and power
The following system components are connected to the System and Energy Manager:
Component type
Component
Connection
Heat generator
Honda micro-CHP
CAN
Heat transfer
Heat recovery module
Sensors/actuators
Additional heat generator
ecoTEC condensing boiler
eBUS
Heat buffer
Hot water buffer storage
Sensors
Heat outlet 1
Drinking water station
eBUS
Heat outlet 2
Mixer circuit 1
Sensors/actuators
Heat outlet 3
Mixer circuit 2
Sensors/actuators
Control unit 1
Remote control
eBUS
Control unit 2
Customer PC, iPhone, iPad
Ethernet
External interface 1
DSL router
Ethernet
External interface 2
Service notebook
Ethernet
A highly-performance system is offered here with
the aim of saving energy. Optimised as per require-
ments, it not only generates heat for consumption
but at the same time creates electrical power for
more than half a family's annual requirements.
All boards and components of the System and Ener-
gy Manager are based on the standard technologies
of Saia® PCD. These are assembled at our plant in
Murten on a production line created specifically for
this product in the housing constructed by Vaillant,
according to lean methods, and in a «one piece
flow», checked, packaged and then delivered di-
rectly to Vaillant's central warehouse.
The System and Energy Manager is not only the
system's brain, but also its calling card. With the
Saia®WebEditor software tool, Vaillant has devel-
oped an extremely attractive and intuitive user in-
terface in web technology.
These superb Vaillant web control pages will
not just stay in the basement. Soon every cus-
tomer will be able to buy the Vaillant ecopow-
er1.0 App in the Apple Store and thus monitor
and use the system from anywhere using his
iPhone or iPad.
With this project, Vaillant has deliberately not
tendered for 'Cheap in Mind' technology, but
instead wanted a system which would be fully
open to the outside. The Saia® PCD automation
server, with web, FTP and http server, SNMP,
etc. meets these expectations in full.
Vaillant wins the
«
German Sustainability Award
2011
»
Under the patronage of Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Angela Mer-
kel, Vaillant won the German Sustainability
Award 2011 for ecoPOWER 1.0. This award hon-
ors companies who combine economic success
with environmental protection in an exemplary
manner. ecoPOWER 1.0 will significantly reduce
resource consumption and CO
2
emissions.
This system is therefore making a sustainable
contribution towards the turnaround in energy
policy in Germany.
System and Energy
Manager with 5.7" touch-
panel and rotary wheel
for parameter settings
System and Energy
Manager with the cover open
Standard Saia®PCD CPU board
1-
phase Saia®energy meter
Vaillant-specific I/O board
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With the standard Saia®WebEditor, Vaillant has
implemented a highly attractive user inter-
face for the 5.7" VGA display and for the iPhone
and iPad, with external graphics support.
System and energy manager
assembly line for the Vaillant-
Honda micro-CHP system:
The Saia®boards are assembled
and tested according to lean
methods on the production
line created for this product
