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Happy Anniversary
“CAREL IS INVESTING IN NATURAL REFRIGERANTS, ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONNECTIVITY.”
- KEVIN MARR.
Connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT) is impacting all areas of HVAC.
POWER: Our approach has been to go head-on with the phaseout of HFCs, we utilize natural refrigerant in our systems.
No GWP problem here and we hope that others will follow. However, in the small capacity HVAC market there seems to be some resistance in Australia.
BURROWS: We recently released our new dedi-
cated HVAC family of drives ACH580 into the mar-
ket. These new drives feature an intuitive graphi-
cal control panel with optional Bluetooth
connectivity; there is additional motor technology
support for asynchronous motors including the very high efficiency Synchronous Reluctance motors. There is more data than ever avail- able from the drive – they are getting so smart that they virtually commission themselves. Later this year we will launch our ABB Abil- ity Digital Powertrain – a suite of wireless sensors that mount on the fan or pump, motor, and drive bearings that together with the varia- ble speed drive and a suite of software and services, drive efficiency and reliability of rotating equipment. My favourite app is ABB Drive- tune which is capable of connecting to drives wirelessly up to 75m away; a feature which often makes commissioning and balancing HVAC air and water systems faster and more cost efficient.
CCN: WHAT IS YOUR FOCUS IN AUSTRALIA?
MARR: CAREL invests approx 7% of consolidated turnover into R&D, this R&D is very focussed on these main drivers in the market today and allow us to drive innovation. This combined with our geographical expansion – to be closer to our customers - will help the sharing of these technologies.
In Australia we are already well regarded for our support of these new technologies but we are accelerating our application and solution knowl- edge through structured internal global training courses.
Contractors
Being able to look after client cool rooms, fridges, freezers and air conditioning from your own computer, saves you hours of driving and gives your customers peace of mind.
T-TEC
All that is needed is T-TEC wireless data logger to monitor the asset and a T-TEC gateway at the site with access to the WiFi and the internet.
Call for a quote
Temperature Technology tt
105 Anzac Highway Ashford SA 5035 www.t-tec.com.au
Ph: 08 8297 7077 Fax: 08 8371 0558 sales@t-tec.com.au
CAREL CEO (APAC Sth Region), KevinMarr
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