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At this point, the chances are fairly good that you’re familiar with heat pumps. In recent years, the technology that uses electrification to make both heating and cooling your home more efficient and effective has become the climate-control solution of choice for many people looking to smartly upgrade their HVAC systems.
But the efficiency of electrification only tells half the story—when you’re dealing with HVAC systems, the how is equally important to the what. Because despite the big piece of impressive equipment sitting next to your house, your experience is still impacted by the way you interact with and control your system.
Custom Comfort
Trane has been in the climate-control game a long time. A really long time—140 years, if you can believe it.
Over those many years, they’ve gained a lot of insight into how people use their HVAC systems. And what they’ve learned is that every home is different and every user has their own specific needs. With Trane’s newest products, such as the Trane 20 TruComfort™ Variable Speed Heat Pump with WeatherGuard™ and the Trane LINK UX360 Smart Thermostat, they’ve created a system that’s designed to be customized.
Features like seven-day-a-week programming make for a system that runs only when you need it. When you set your system up for your specific schedule, it’ll maintain the temperature you set when you’re home and won’t waste energy when you’re not. Add custom zoning and you have a system that knows exactly where to focus and when. Why pay to keep the bedroom cool during the day when no one’s in it?
What results is a more efficient system that’s not only more environmentally friendly but also cheaper to run day in and day out.
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Making the Connection
These customization features are available thanks to a cutting-edge connectivity system called Trane Link™. By choosing a smart thermostat with Trane Link™, one can easily set up and control their entire house’s climate-control system from either a panel on their wall or an app on their smartphone or tablet.
A smart thermostat with Trane Link™ can be installed as a part of a whole new system or connected to an existing system to upgrade its connectivity. Either way, both the Trane Home app and popular third-party smart home systems can connect to it. This allows a Trane heat-pump system to fit seamlessly into whatever kind of smart-home setup you have installed and be controlled from anywhere.
Being able to access your HVAC system from afar opens up the possibilities of how you use it. You can get the cold air blasting when you’re still on your way home from the beach, or just check to make sure the temperature is where you want it while you’re traveling. It’s a way of making sure your system is always working exactly how and when you want it to.
Service From Afar
Beyond the ease of use, having a connected system improves its reliability and makes service a smoother affair. Once a system such as the 20 TruComfort™ Variable Speed Heat Pump with WeatherGuard™ with Trane Link™ is paired with a Trane Smart Thermostat, it automatically configures and calibrates the system for optimal performance year-round. Updates are then able to be delivered remotely, ensuring your system remains up-to-date for years to come.
Beyond that, having a connected system totally changes how it’s serviced. By opting into remote diagnostics, one can allow a technician to access real time data about how a system is performing and be alerted if there’s a problem, potentially before you’re even aware of it. Technicians can even tap into a system and help troubleshoot problems remotely. There’s often no need to deal with scheduling a service appointment or having someone come on-site at all.
Modernized Climate Control
It makes a lot of sense for a lot of people to replace HVAC systems that rely on gas or oil with a fully electric year-round system like a heat pump, especially one that helps to save money month after month while being environmentally friendly.
Trane—recently named one of America's most trusted residential HVAC brands for the 11th consecutive year—has taken the technology to new heights by pairing it with smart, connected tech that makes every system work as well as possible in the specific home it’s been installed in.
What Trane’s done is taken the best of smartphone-era tech, with its personalization and potential to connect from anywhere, and paired it with the latest advancements in climate control. What results is a heat-pump system designed for today and for the future. Not bad for a company that’s been around for longer than the automobile.
