What is the zoning principle? When people lived in caves, fire was used to heat the living space. During the construction of the first houses, a fireplace was installed in each room, however only the occupied rooms benefit from heating: the living room during the day and the bedrooms at night. It made sense to burn precious wood to heat only the rooms that were used. As heating systems became more sophisticated, this simple concept was forgotten. A single source of heat in the house, controlled by a single sensor or thermostat, has become the standard to follow for the implementation of processes.

 The inefficiency of this system is obvious: a single thermostat cannot maintain an even temperature throughout the building. In the same way, the principle of zoning was developed. The concept of zoning allows heat to be distributed only where it is needed according to the needs of the room. It is useless to heat a room to 21°C if it is unoccupied for a long time or if it is occupied for an activity which only needs an ambient temperature of 16°C for example. It is a heating (and cooling) principle that can have many advantages for the total comfort of a house or apartment. How and at what price? This is the subject of this article which presents a solution that can be interesting in terms of comfort and aesthetics.

 Zoning: save money

 You’ll save money by cooling or heating only the areas you need or use, you save energy and therefore money! Depending on the use and the size of the building, the savings can amount to 10 to 30%. For a homeowner, that means hundreds of dollars. For a building owner, the savings can reach thousands of dollars.

 Improving the comfort of your home

 The heating needs of each zone are different and can change during the day. Zoning helps maintain a comfortable temperature in the rooms you use most often at the right time. Therefore, this function allows you to customize the heating according to your needs.

 How does it work?

 The very principle of heating by zoning, also called air conditioning or heating by zoning or even zoning, is based on the totally autonomous regulation and operation of the various atmospheres equipped by this mechanism. A separate thermostat is placed in various areas of the building or home. For a house, it could be the living room/recreation area, the bedrooms and the kitchen/dining room. For a commercial building, conference rooms and individual offices have the option of being zoned. Each thermostat monitors a damper that directs cool or warm air where and when you want it.

This system then makes it possible to regulate the airflows and therefore the temperature of each of the zones, independently of each other, according to the needs and directives imposed by the inhabitants. These temperature adjustments are made through a thermostat connected to the air conditioner. Thermal comfort is greatly improved with this type of installation.Each zone has its own thermal load, in particular depending on the solar exposure of the house but also depending on the quality of its insulation or the number of people or inhabitants for example, it is necessary to be able to control this load, which is therefore different in all rooms of the house. This is therefore the main role of multi-zone air conditioning.