24/7 monitoring, on a measured benchmark.
SmartAC.com is a sensor kit that watches a system around the clock and alerts on leaks and faults. Monitoring is only as good as where it starts, and that is the measureQuick part: commission the system to a measured benchmark, then let SmartAC.com hold it there.
What it is
SmartAC.com is a 24/7 monitoring kit for residential HVAC. A small set of sensors tracks how the system runs, flags problems like refrigerant and water leaks as they happen, spots the trends that lead to a breakdown, and puts the homeowner in fast contact with a local technician.
On its own, monitoring needs a good starting point. Watching a system that was never set up right has about as much value as putting a programmable thermostat on a broken one: it just wastes energy more efficiently. Field studies put at least one fault in more than 70% of systems, so the baseline is the whole game. measureQuick is the fault-finding diagnostic and commissioning tool that sets that baseline.
How it works with measureQuick
Commission to a benchmark
Use measureQuick to set the system up right: verify refrigerant charge and airflow, then find and correct the common faults like return-duct leakage, an undersized filter, or a dirty condenser. That visit produces a measured benchmark of how the system should run.
Leave SmartAC.com behind
Install the SmartAC.com sensors on the commissioned system. They monitor normal operation against that benchmark and capture what happens between service visits, instead of waiting for the next call.
Service against the baseline
When SmartAC.com flags a change, the technician returns the system to its measureQuick benchmark on the visit. Service brings it back to where it started, not to a guess.
What SmartAC.com watches
SmartAC.com monitors normal operation and looks for deviation, not the extremes. Four signals do most of the work.
Cycle time. Run time tracks the load: as outdoor temperature climbs toward design, run times approach 100%. Cycles that are too long or too short for the conditions point to a problem.
Temperature difference. Cooling settles near a 19 to 20 degree split at design conditions, a heat pump rise tracks the outdoor temperature, and a furnace rise has to stay in range to protect the heat exchanger. Drift off those expected values is a flag.
Water leakage. A residential system can remove 15 to 20 gallons a day. A week of that on an attic ceiling or a finished basement is real damage, and internal water loss is the most common and most expensive kind.
Filter pressure drop. As a filter loads with dirt it restricts the airstream, and the system either burns more watts per CFM or simply moves less air. The sensors catch the restriction before it costs efficiency or capacity.
Proven in the field
SmartAC.com monitors deployed by Honest Heating & Cooling on its customers’ systems.
The only contractor within a hundred miles actively monitoring customer equipment as it runs.
SmartAC.com deployments Honest Heating is targeting as it grows its maintenance base.
Figures reported by Honest Heating & Cooling. Read the full story below.
Questions, answered
What does SmartAC.com actually monitor?
Cycle times, the temperature difference across the coil, water leakage, and filter pressure drop. It watches normal operation and alerts when the system drifts from how it should run.
How does measureQuick fit with SmartAC.com?
measureQuick sets the baseline. You commission the system to a measured benchmark, and SmartAC.com monitors against it between visits. Monitoring a system that was never set up right has little value, so the commissioning step is what makes the monitoring worth anything.
Who is the monitoring for?
The homeowner gets 24/7 coverage and a fast line to a local technician when something goes wrong. The contractor gets a retention channel and the context of what happened between visits instead of a cold callback.
Set the benchmark. Keep it there.
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