The predictive weather input idea could also be a real boost to heat/cool systems with some heat storage capability and particularly with the option of using alternate heat sources such as solar water panels coupled with a geo heat pump, as does Actuario.
If you knew you had cold cloudy weather coming , you'd know (or your system would know!), you'd start using your geo hp system to start storing heat in your storage tank ahead of the cold weather as well as ramping up your hydrionic floor (if you had that)
But if you knew cold but sunny weather was coming, you would forgo the hp for storage because you'd be able to rely on thd free solar input.
And dozens of variations in between and added variations like predicted wind speeds as well.
Coupling predictive weather with some storage might allow you to go with a smaller system and save some kilowatts in the hp system overall.
But the software would be compplex. Someone must have done this in big commercial systems like high rise buildings?
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