TE Connectivity Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Solutions
Sustainability, Reliability & Efficiency
HVAC systems play a crucial role in maintaining comfortable indoor environments by providing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning for both residential and commercial spaces. These systems are essential for filtering and purifying indoor air, ensuring a healthy living environment, and managing humidity levels effectively. With an increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and clean air technologies, HVAC solutions are becoming key players in addressing climate change and supporting decarbonization efforts, while also meeting the demands of a rapidly urbanizing world.
The rise of energy-efficient heat pump systems is driving substantial growth in the global HVAC industry. This expansion highlights the need for advanced technologies that offer enhanced reliability and durability in both commercial and residential markets. TE Connectivity delivers a comprehensive range of connector and sensor solutions, adopting a systems-based approach to ensure component interoperability and streamline development processes. TE’s compact components address space limitations, offer environmental protection, and facilitate foolproof assembly.
With TE’s dependable, easy-to-install, and field-tested innovative products, you can stay ahead in improving building comfort and control. Discover TE’s latest insights into HVAC market trends and explore opportunities to optimize your HVAC systems.
Creating comfortable indoor spaces while maintaining a cost-effective building is a common challenge for modern HVAC systems. A heat pump is one cost-effective solution to provide heating and cooling in a single unit. Sensors for pressure, temperature, flow, and humidity are making these systems smarter and more efficient. However, sensors must be cost effective, accurate and reliable as part of heat pump systems as the environments they operate in can be quite harsh.From high-efficiency connectors to intelligent sensors, TE empowers engineers to create innovative, energy-efficient cooling systems tailored to address the demands of modern homeowners.
Water and Flame Protection for Harsh Conditions
HVAC systems are exposed to harsh environments ranging from extreme heat to frigid temperatures — both inside and outside the system. The components in your design must withstand dust, debris, extreme weather, thermal shock, high vibration, condensation, humidity, and corrosion. Choosing weak components can reduce energy-efficiency and degrade the system’s performance. These harsh environments can lead to component failures, thus reducing comfort and increasing costs. Protect your HVAC system against dust, debris, and water with TEs top-of-the-line sealed connector solutions offering IP rated protection in the harshest environments.
Benefits:
- Extra locking mechanisms with TPA and CPA
- Ingress protection (IP) rating for water, dust, and debris
- Corrosion resistance and insertion wear resistance
- Glow Wire Test (GWT) and UL 94-V0
Challenges:
- Real-world conditions such as dust, debris, corrosion, condensation and humidity
Solutions:
- IP rated sealing capabilities to keep AC equipment clean from debris and free from moisture due to condensation
- Glow Wire tested (EMEA) and V0 (AMER) – regulatory standards met
- Water and Flammable proof products
- Clean processes
- Rework / Maintenance
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New Levels of Connected Comfort Year-Round
Explore space-saving and reliable components that keep your HVAC equipment running smoothly in today’s connected home. As innovative technologies are enabling systems to run more efficiently and at lower cost, you will need the components to stay ahead. TE can help advance your designs with component compatibility, speedier development cycles, and quick-to-install products for a reliable and industry-proven solution.
Benefits:
- Sealing: Ingress protection (IP) rating for water, dust, and debris in harsh environments
- Reliability: High power and operating temperatures, locking mechanisms, and vibration resistance
- Miniaturization: Compact centerline and smaller construction size
- Simplification: Insulation displacement (IDC) technology, ease of installation, and simplified assemble processes
- Safety: Flame retardant material, ergonomic design, and insulation protection
Challenges:
- Finding space saving components that are reliable, efficient and compliant to government regulations
- Products that highlight energy-saving ability while saving space on circuit boards
- Miniaturized products that fit into connected smart home upgrades
Solutions:
- Space saving, low-profile connectors combined with IDC technology
- Component compatibility, speedier development cycle, and quick-to-install products for a reliable and industry proven solution
- Seamless technologies, data reliability and better operational results
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Maintain Clean and Safe Environments in Hospital HVAC Systems
Temperature, humidity levels and cleanliness can affect the equipment and procedures pertaining to operating rooms, isolation rooms and other sensitive setting within hospitals. In hospitals, indoor air quality, air conditioning, ventilating systems,and other facets of HVAC systems and control matter greatly. Yes, HVAC systems in hospitals must maintain comfortable climate conditions and humidity levels. But they must also help maintain clean environments so that patients aren’t harmed and so that medical equipment can properly function. Hospital HVAC system design is, therefore, very important. Design construction, operation, and use of hospital HVAC systems directly affects people’s health and well-being. To operate safely and effectively, hospitals require the right HVAC system and capabilities.
HVAC systems must work with other air quality and purification systems to provide effective ventilation and minimize the spread of viruses, such as Covid-19, and other sources of indoor pollution. Epidemiologic evidence has put pressure on HVAC designers to maintain Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) as science has demonstrated a clear association between exposure to damp indoor environments and adverse health effects. Prolonged damp conditions can lead to growth of molds, bacteria, and insect pests in HVAC systems – an issue that must be eliminated to avoid “sick building syndrome”.
Challenges:
- Air quality monitoring
- With the impact of COVID-19 and the spread of germs, HVAC systems giving rise to the need for HVAC Upgrade per AHRAE*
- AHRAE set guidelines for filtration rates to maintain good indoor air quality
Solutions:
- Data provided by air quality sensors can not only unlock the combined benefits of greater efficiency and better indoor air quality through HVAC optimizations, but also help earn building certifications and boost occupant wellness
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New Levels of Comfortable with HVAC Solutions
As innovative technologies are enabling systems to run more efficiently and at lower cost, you will need the components to stay ahead. TE can help advance your designs with component compatibility, speedier development cycles, and quick-to-install products for a reliable and industry-proven solution.
The function of the control system is to reach the target temperature or state, based on what you set on your thermostat. This requires transmission of signal, powerful connections, and many more in order to bring you heat in the winter and cool air in the summer.
Within HVAC systems, Signal Relays are primarily used in thermostats to switch heating systems. TE’s flat, small size signal relays are high performance relays with switching current up to 5A.
Benefits:
- Power PCB Relays are used in thermostats, electric boilers, general pumps, fan control, and more within HVAC systems. Inrush capabilities and long life with high switching cycles combined with a high temperature range makes TE’s power PCB relays a strong choice for HVAC applications.
Applications:
- Control Systems
- Auxiliary PCB’s
- Environmental Sensors
- HVAC Accesories
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Sensors for HVACR and Building Equipment
TE Connectivity (TE) sensors play a major role in regulating heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems. Sensors maintain a comfortable indoor climate but also enable the HVACR system to perform properly. Sensors enable diagnostics that help identify system or equipment issues that could reduce efficiencies or cause major breakdowns to occur. TE’s rugged and reliable sensors for HVAC applications including ones that sense pressure, temperature, humidity, vibration, position, force and more. From motor vibration monitoring, to water flow in boiler systems, the TE portfolio allows integrators to specify various sensor types within one system. Benefits:- Low cost
- Reliable and high-performance
- Accurate sensing in harsh environments
- Dual-sensing
- Air Conditioning
- Building Automation Systems
- Furnaces & Boilers
- Fire Suppression Systems
- Heat Pumps
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Variable Air Volume
Seamless Connectivity for your HVAC System
Our antenna solutions provide high-quality transmissions in wireless devices in a wide variety of frequencies including, but not limited to: Bluetooth, WLAN, Cellular and ZigBee. With HVAC systems becoming smarter and more digitally-controlled, TE’s antenna products can help you achieve the wireless designs you are looking for.
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Heat Pump Quality Component Solutions
Designing the future of comfort
TE Connectivity is the solution behind the system! Our connector, magnet wire, terminal and splice solutions will help keep your heat pump equipment running efficiently in todays connected home. Pioneering the future of heat pump technology – Choose TE as your global partner. Together, let’s bring your innovative heat pump ideas to reality!
Heat Pump Design Challenges & Component Solutions
Empowering the future of heat pump technology
Heat pump technology is changing the way we heat and cool our home, heat water and dry clothes. The demand for heat pumps is surging because they offer efficient performance at lower costs and simplified system integration. They also offer prolonged durability operating in extreme temperatures, which can lead to certain design problems. TE Connectivity is equipping engineers with component solutions to overcome these design challenges.
Residential Market:
Houses, small stores and restaurants
Applications:
- Cooling
- Heating
- Humidity
- Ventilation
Types of Residential HVAC Systems
- Central Air Conditioner
- Ductless Mini-Split
- Window Air Conditioner
- Portable Air Conditioner
- Floor Mounted Air Conditioner
- Hybrid / Dual Fuel Air Conditioner
- Through the wall Air Conditioner
- Smart Air Conditioner
- Geothermal Air Conditioner
Subsystems of Residential HVAC Systems
- Furnace / Air handler
- Evaporator Coil
- Condenser
- Supply Air Ducting
- Return Air
- Adaptions
- Supply Air Runs
- Return Air Runs
- Flue / Chimney Piping
Commercial Market:
Office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, warehouses and medical establishments
Applications:
- Cooling
- Heating
- Ventilation
- Filtering
- Dehumidification
- Air-purification
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Types of Commercial HVAC Systems
- Single Split System
- Multi-Split System Air Conditioning
- Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) and Variable Refrigerant Volume (VRV)
Subsystems of Commercial HVAC Systems
- Air Conditioner
- Compressor
- Condenser
- Thermal Expansion Valve
- Air Handler (including Evaporator Coil and Blower)
- Terminal Units
- Chiller
HVAC Resources
Trends and Opportunities in HVAC Trend Paper
A look into today’s trends and opportunities for HVAC
HVAC Product Application Guide for Harsh Environment
Learn more about TE’s IP rated water and dust proof sealed connectors that can withstand high humidity environments.
Connected Comfort Year Round
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HVAC Solutions Guide
Stay ahead of the trends for increase building comfort and control and find connector solutions for all your HVAC needs.
HVAC Infographic
Revolutionize Your HVAC: Explore TE’s Energy-Efficient Heating & Cooling Solutions