Abstract: preventing the formation of ice on roofs and gutters of buildings appears to be socially and economically significant goal, requiring efficient and effective decision-making. Roof and gutters heating has the potential to avert the loss of life and vehicles damage due to falling icicles. The costly package of measures of manual cleaning of roofs, which often leads to unscheduled repairs of roof , gutters and facades of buildings is thus not needed. A competent choice of the way of heating is able to provide positive social and economic benefits for the city and must be done according to the availability of specific types of energy resources ... The article justifies the applicability of water heating system that runs in both automatic and manual control. Such systems allow the use of heat supplied by CHP local boiler or gas compact heater.
Keywords: Key words: energy-saving technologies, water heating systems, convective heat transfer, heat transfer EFFICIENCY, electronic control unit, ecological efficiency, dependability, vandal resistance, social and economic effects