EyeSense Controls
The Intelligent Control Layer Behind Every NexGen Heating System
Forget dials, timers and guesswork. EyeSense is the AI-driven control technology that turns NexGen infrared heating into a genuinely self-managing system.
- Senses whether a room is genuinely occupied, even when the person in it is sitting still or asleep
- Learns how the building behaves
- Adjusts the heating in real time
- Already proven in live deployments across universities, colleges and social housing
- Room-level building management to every space it controls
A Thermostat Tells a Heater When to Switch On. EyeSense Tells It Why
A standard thermostat is a basic instrument. It reacts to a single number from a wall-mounted sensor and nothing else. It has no awareness of whether a room is occupied, how quickly the room loses heat, or what is happening with humidity. It is the same technology that has been heating buildings inefficiently for decades.
EyeSense replaces that guesswork with continuous, intelligent decision-making. At every heater it measures presence, temperature, humidity, light levels and electrical energy consumption, and uses that data to control heating output with a precision no conventional thermostat can match. The result is a heating system that behaves less like a switch and more like a building manager who never sleeps.
What EyeSense Adds to Your NexGen Heating System
Presence-Aware Heating
Rather than heating to a fixed schedule, EyeSense detects when spaces are genuinely occupied and adjusts output accordingly. Empty rooms are no longer heated unnecessarily, occupied rooms are brought to comfort quickly, and the waste a timer-based thermostat simply cannot see is cut out.
Crucially, EyeSense detects presence, not just motion. A simple motion sensor decides a room is empty the moment its occupant stops moving, switching the heating off on someone asleep in bed, reading in a chair or working at a desk. EyeSense knows the difference between a still room and an empty one, so people stay comfortable even when they are fast asleep. Because infrared warms people and surfaces directly rather than large volumes of air, heat arrives quickly the moment someone returns, so responding to presence costs nothing in comfort.
Real Energy Savings, Not Just Modelled Ones
Because it responds to real occupancy patterns rather than assumptions, EyeSense controlled heating outperforms conventional smart radiator valves and basic programmable thermostats on measured energy use. Energy consumption is metered at every heater, so savings are confirmed room by room in live buildings rather than projected on a spec sheet.
Energy Metering at Every Heater
EyeSense meters electrical consumption per room and per radiator, and makes that data visible in the web portal. Estates teams can see exactly where energy is going, compare buildings and rooms on a like-for-like basis, evidence carbon reduction for ESG and net-zero reporting, and identify faulty or wasteful equipment early. A whole-building meter tells you what you spent; EyeSense tells you where and why.
Learns Your Building, Not Just Your Settings
Every building gains and loses heat differently. EyeSense builds a picture of how each space performs thermally over time, allowing NexGen systems to anticipate heat loss rather than react after a room has already gone cold.
See the Wadham College case study: Wadham College
Damp and Mould Risk Awareness, With an Evidence Trail
By tracking temperature and humidity together, EyeSense can flag the conditions associated with condensation and mould before they become visible problems. Every reading is logged, giving landlords a continuous, room-by-room record of the conditions in their properties. For social housing providers managing compliance with Awaab’s Law, that means both early warning and the documented evidence to demonstrate action was taken.
Manage Everything Remotely
A secure web-based dashboard gives estates and facilities teams full visibility and control across every room and every building, from any device. There is no need for a site visit to check whether a heater has been left running, or to make an adjustment for an individual resident.
Fitted Without Rewiring
EyeSense is designed for retrofit. Installation requires no new electrical works and minimal disruption to residents. It works with standard simple-control heaters as well as new NexGen installations, keeping upgrade costs down.
Quiet, Robust, Set-and-Forget
Once installed, EyeSense runs with minimal manual input. It makes constant micro-adjustments without a sound, in bedrooms, libraries and care settings alike, while keeping full override control available whenever it is needed.
Private by Default
EyeSense works from environmental data only: occupancy presence, temperature, humidity, light and energy use. It uses no cameras and no microphones, and it does not collect personal or identifying information, which keeps data protection simple and supports GDPR compliance.
Built to Work Anywhere, Built to Last
EyeSense works independently in any building, with or without a wider Building Management System, and its architecture is designed to absorb future updates and regulatory changes without being ripped out and replaced. It is a control layer that ages with the building, not against it.
Standard Thermostat vs. NexGen with EyeSense
| Capability | Standard Thermostat | NexGen + EyeSense |
| Presence detection | None, or motion-only that times out on still occupants | True presence sensing, room by room, comfortable even while you sleep |
| Control basis | Fixed schedule, single set-point | Live conditions and learned building behaviour |
| Energy metering | None, whole-building meter only | Metered at every heater, per room and per radiator |
| Damp and mould insight | None | Continuous humidity monitoring with a logged evidence trail |
| Remote management | Limited or none | Full web-based control from any device |
| Installation | Often needs new wiring or plug points | Low-voltage cabling, no new electrical works |
| Response time | Slow, reacts after rooms drift | Adjusts continuously, parameter updates within seconds |
| Adaptability | Fixed hardware, rarely updated | Future-ready, update-friendly architecture |
Heating That Thinks, Not Just Switches
NexGen infrared heating paired with EyeSense is not an incremental improvement on the thermostat; it is a different category of system. The fast response of infrared heating, directed by machine learning, delivers spaces that are comfortable, energy efficient and lower carbon, without asking anything of the people using them.
For social housing providers, councils, universities, schools, care homes and any estate serious about cutting carbon and energy waste without compromising comfort, EyeSense is the intelligence layer that makes it possible.
Super Energy-Efficient
Independent tests show that NexGen’s energy usage is extremely efficient. Here’s why.
Eliminates damp and mould – and an amazing human experience
NexGen’s gentle warmth feels like sunlight on the skin – because that’s what infrared
Nexgen delivers highly efficient warmth using low-carbon energy, and provides a cost-effective, comfortable working environment in places where, to date, this has been impossible.
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