Decarbonize Water Heating
with a Scalable, Cost-Savings Solution

LOCUS Flow Router technology simplifies the design and optimizes the performance of
heat pump water heater systems, minimizing energy bills and maximizing environmental benefits.

Overcome Complexities
in Water Heating Electrification

Heat Pump Water Heaters (HPWH) are vital for building decarbonization, but complex system
designs, high upfront costs, and unpredictable performance often stand in the way. There is
a lack of control solutions to avoid electricity use when electricity rates and carbon intensity spike.

LOCUS technology delivers a comprehensive approach to
simplify and enhance HPWH deployment, offering streamlined designs,
optimization controls, real-time performance monitoring, and automatic fault detection.

The result?
Faster, easier installations of high-performance HPWH systems that
lower costs, reduce energy bills, boost environmental benefits, and accelerate HPWH adoption.

Embrace Simplicity
Reduce Costs, Achieve Scalability

LOCUS Flow Router, a novel system integration and control device, enables plug-and-play integration of water heaters and storage tanks, creating simple yet high-performance HPWH systems.
It significantly reduces deployment and operational costs and provides unprecedented scalability in water heating electrification.

Design

System configurations are
streamlined and flexible,
leading to minimal design efforts.

Installation

System designs are easy to understand and require minimum piping,
resulting in reduced field work.

Commissioning

System commissioning is performed
by the LOCUS Flow Router, reducing the contractors’ obligations and efforts.

Save with Load Flexibility Controls

Without load flexibility controls, a significant amount of electricity may be consumed
when prices are high, the grid is stressed, or renewable energy supply is low,
increasing energy bills and diminishing the many benefits of water heating electrification.

Take Control of Your Electricity Usage

LOCUS Flow Routers employ innovative system-level controls,
achieving unparalleled results when managing water heating and storage tank utilization. 
Coupled with optimization algorithms and IoT-based data communication,
LOCUS technology minimizes energy costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
according to time-varying electricity prices and carbon intensity.

Ensure Long-term Performance

Using real-time performance monitoring and fault detection, LOCUS technology ensures lifetime high-performance operation and reliability. System operation is continuously optimized based on monitoring results, while preventive maintenance recommendations are provided to building operators to avoid unplanned, costly repairs. Energy bill savings and environmental benefits are automatically reported to building operators and owners.

Support All HPWH Products

LOCUS flow router’s plug-and-play architecture is compatible with all HPWH products, giving system designers a full range of options to create high-performance water heating systems.

Enable Advanced System Designs

LOCUS technology was developed as a versatile integration and control platform, enabling easy deployment of a broad range of sophisticated system designs such as

  • HPWH systems providing both space and water heating services.

  • Hybrid heat pump and gas water heating for cold climate applications.

  • Systems using phase change material based thermal energy storage to save space and enhance load flexibility.

Facing an advanced water heating system integration challenge? We are happy to help!