Smart water heating system and methods useful in conjunction therewith

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for providing smart boiler system operative in conjunction with a plurality of boilers wherein each individual boiler in said plurality is equipped with at least one sensor monitoring an aspect of the individual boiler's water heating functionality and a local controller collecting data from said sensor and communicating at least some of said data via a data network to a remote server, the method comprising:

• Providing a boiler data repository comprising computer storage operative to maintain at least some of said data;
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• Providing a central server in data communication with said data network and including a processor having at least one operational mode including a maintenance-needs-detection operational mode which is operative to scan data stored in said repository, on occasion, and to rank, accordingly, said plurality of boilers in terms of at least one predetermined criterion defining at least one maintenance need, and to provide at least one “push” output indicating a subset of said plurality of boilers currently ranking high in terms of said at least one predetermined criterion defining at least one maintenance need.

A method for providing smart boiler system operative in conjunction with a plurality of boilers wherein each individual boiler in said plurality is equipped with at least one sensor monitoring an aspect of the individual boiler's water heating functionality and a local controller collecting data from said sensor and communicating at least some of said data via a data network to a remote server, the method comprising:

• Providing a boiler data repository comprising computer storage operative to maintain at least some of said data;
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• Providing a central server in data communication with said data network and including a processor having at least one operational mode including a maintenance-needs-detection operational mode which is operative to scan data stored in said repository, on occasion, and to rank, accordingly, said plurality of boilers in terms of at least one predetermined criterion defining at least one maintenance need, and to provide at least one “push” output indicating a subset of said plurality of boilers currently ranking high in terms of said at least one predetermined criterion defining at least one maintenance need.