Arduino Heating or Cooling Control - SHProject 5

Project description

1. Overview In many homes, rooms that are far from the central HVAC system suffer from temperature imbalance: too cold in winter, too warm in summer. This was exactly the situation for the original author’s daughter’s bedroom, located on the opposite side of the house from the main HVAC unit. The “Arduino Heating or Cooling Control – SHProject 5” project uses an Arduino Uno to monitor room temperature and automatically switch a space heater or window A/C unit on and off. An Ethernet shield based on the WIZnet W5100 chip allows a PC to poll the device over the network and log usage data into…