Every Rheem® Preferred Platinum™ Water Softener. comes with built-in Rheem® Learning Technology. This smart technology learns your water usage patterns to optimize salt and water consumption to provide soft water for your home. But how does it work and why does it matter to you?
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The Benefits of Rheem® Learning Technology
You want your water softener to achieve the greatest water and salt efficiency as possible. An important piece of this is regeneration, which is, essentially a self-cleaning process so that it can continue to soften new water. Every time a water softer regenerates, it uses salt and water which is flushed down the drain, creating waste. Other softening systems will regenerate on a timed schedule, whether they need to or not. That often creates unnecessary waste. Rheem® Learning Technology helps lessen this waste by learning your home water-use patterns and only regenerates when it needs to. This is a great feature!
For example, Friday night comes along and your water softener has learned that Saturday is a higher water-use day. It knows that more water is required on Saturday. It knows how much capacity is left to soften before needing to regenerate, so it regenerates to prepare for that extra use. Conversely, when lighter water use is anticipated it’ll slow the frequency of regeneration. Let’s say Sunday night arrives and there’s not much softening capacity left, but the usage patterns show that not as much water is needed on Monday. It’ll wait another day, or more, to regenerate when it needs to. That’s great Learning Technology!
Rheem® Learning Technology Adapts to Your Lifestyle
All you need to do is turn on your Rheem® Preferred Platinum™ Water Softener. The Learning Technology begins monitoring your water use patterns and adjusts the regeneration process right away. It generally takes a week or two to identify your water use patterns. There's no need to program or adjust anything. It constantly monitors your water use and adapts to any changes.
For example, If you have more guests at home for the holidays and your water-usage is up, are gone on vacation for a week with no water use, or install a new efficient dishwasher, your softener is aware and re-calibrates itself for maximum efficiency. How cool is that?
How Does Rheem® Learning Technology Learn Your Water Use Patterns?
Rheem® Learning Technology relies on the communication between the software and flow sensors. These flow sensors are small magnets on the internal turbine - located in the water outlet valve. How does that work? Well, as soft water leaves the system, it flows over the turbine which spins like a fan. When the water stops, the turbine stops. The information is relayed to the software. The smart software records this info to determine how much water the softener is using. The water softener is always using new data to re-calibrate as your water usages change over time. It also stores ongoing historical usage data for the lifespan of the water softener. All water usage data can be monitored using the iQua smartphone water management app available for use with the Rheem® Preferred Platinum™ Water Softener.
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