Your thermostat just got a little smarter. You can thank the Radio Thermostat Company of America (RTCoA), who just announced the CT80, a Wi-Fi based programmable communicating thermostat.
Based on GainSpan’s GS1010 SoC (System on Chip) device, the unit promises energy management and home automation beyond your wildest dreams—or at least your HVAC dreams. Just add the thermostat into your setup and the unit can connect to your wireless home network. This allows you to access the unit from any computer to conserve energy, which is good for the environment, as well as your wallet.
“We chose to use the highly optimized Wi-Fi SoC from Gainspan as it enables our thermostats to connect to the existing standards based Wi-Fi home network,” said Dan Goodman, CTO of RTCoA and their partner company Golden Power Manufacturing.
The CT80 features a full dot-matrix LCD screen and is compatible with all major HVAC systems. It also has the possibility for two-way communications, which means your utility can send alerts or info about new rate structures.
The CT80 is available now on RTCoA’s website for $159.95.
None of the articles about the ct80 are very clear. My question: Is the ct80 a web server that you can query and program with only a web browser (not very difficult for a manufacturer to do), or is just a sensor/controller that can be connected to over WIFI by a proprietary program running on a computer? If it is a webserver, why no mention of that or screenshots?
I hear you Roland C, I want the same thing, web browser based programmability of thermostat. here ye, here ye…....
This article is not clear…“This allows you to access the unit from any computer .....”
Does this mean inside the home, or does it mean from anywhere.
I need a thermostat that I can program from a web page, can some one on this planet invent it, make it simple, affordable and give them the nobel prize for efficiency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Static IP baby. Thats how you connect all over the world baby!!!thermostat