How energy efficient is your home heating? If you burn oil or propane, the answer is: You have no idea, and no easy way to find out.
A family business in Merrimack thinks it has a solution to that problem with a device that determines the efficiency of your oil or propane heating system by sensing the vibrations of your furnace’s flame. It hopes that a Kickstarter crowd-sourcing project will help bring the product to market.
“Nobody has calculated energy consumption from the vibration patterns, but to be honest, the hard part was making a one-size-fits-all device,” said Radu Gogoanna who, with his father, electrical engineer Marian, is behind the HeatMeter system. “Making a device in which the same box fits on all models and types of boilers and furnaces – that was hard.”
Gogoanna, a mechanical engineer recently graduated from MIT, described the product as being the equivalent of a scale for somebody trying to lose weight; it provides the hard data that can be used to make decisions.
“There’s nothing out there that allows you to track the improvements you make.![]()
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