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Some time ago we asked our backers what you would like to know more and quite a few have shown interest in Thread. This blog is thus dedicated to Thread. So we start with the question, what is Thread? Well it is something in the same category as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G etc that are now house hold names and many people understand what they mean.  Essentially, it is a wireless communication method, but it has been specially designed from the ground up to make secure and seamless communication between low power devices. Many will ask why can’t we use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth . This is a very valid question especially because you can use Bluetooth between say your wireless headphone and your smart phone, or you can use Wi-Fi between you Laptop and your Printer although via a Wi-Fi router.   The problem is that Wi-Fi technology has been designed for a very different application. It’s main focus from day one was to exchange lots of data between devices that are common
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Who is Novo?

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We’ve had a few requests for more information on how Novo came about and our inspiration in creating our smart radiator valves. The idea for Novo originated 2 years ago from a group of E.ON employees to revolutionise the climate control world. With an interest in heating and cooling, we’d all seen how current solutions are hard to install, awkward to use and often expensive! Novo therefore applied to join the :agile accelerator programme, E.ON’s own internal start-up programme. Every 3 months :agile accepts applications, with a demo day at the end. If all goes well at this, then you get to pursue your dream and we were delighted to gain further support! The wider :agile team at the E.ON HQ in Germany We went from full-time employees at E.ON to pursuing our dream of smart solutions as an internal start-up, but luckily with the support of a global player in E.ON behind us. We also reinforced the team and many of our technical experts joined at this time and have stayed wit
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Mysterious temperature drift.. [[ solved ]]

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Extensive testing helps reveal many problems that would otherwise stay dormant. It is a somewhat daunting task to run a selection of appropriate tests and then analyze the results and make certain improvements. It is something that not only should be done during a product development, but it also should be done rigorously, which quite often means it is a bit boring. This post is NOT about that. This post is about solving these mysterious bugs and problems that appear seemingly randomly and are an absolute pain to fix, which also makes them NOT boring. It all started back in December, during an internal demo. We were still using a slightly older version of electronics and during one of the many valve activations, I saw that the SRVs temperature measurement went quite suddenly a few degrees up. This was unexpected to say the least - we had tested this hardware quite a lot before that and used the same sensor in other products and frankly never had any wrong readings. Although
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