The GxTracker™ provides residential and light commercial ground source heat pump (GSHP) users with an affordable, easy-to-install system that shows real-time data about the heat transfer and environmental and cost benefits associated with their GSHP heating and cooling system.
Benefits of monitoring include efficient performance assessment, detection of long-term trends in ground loop temperature, and an improved understanding of ground energy as a sustainable thermal energy management system.
Large scale monitoring programs that are able to compare the performance of existing systems across a region provide insight into how the natural geologic and hydrologic conditions affect ground loop performance and will contribute to the ongoing efforts to optimize system design using readily available site-specific data.