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Smart floor heating system for offices

Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: TOES20171114001
Publication Date: 14 November 2017

Summary

Spanish start-up has developed an intelligent underfloor heating system for offices. It allows each employee to configure his own comfort temperature within an office space, reducing cost and energy consumption and improving their comfort and hence their performance. The company is looking for commercial agreements with technical assistance.

Description

It is a fact that one of the problems that affect to the employees of most of the offices is the thermal discomfort. Temperature sensitivities and preferences vary from one employee to another and the inability to create zones with different temperatures within one office space leads to thermal discomfort for many employees.

Another problem in offices is the energy waste. In offices, a significant amount of energy is wasted by heating up empty spaces – i.e. conference rooms, corridors, empty desks...The inability to choose with precision when and where to heat leads to energy overconsumption in most offices.

The current heating systems used in offices do not offer the possibility of creating different areas with different temperatures inside a room. Additionally, legacy systems create convection, drying the air, increasing allergies and headaches, with the warm air on top and cold at the bottom.

In this context, the Spanish start-up has developed a smart floor heating system that allows to heat independently each part of the office space in order to solve the mentioned problems.

The technology is based on multilayer intelligent heating tiles that are deployed under the floor and have the ability to warm and sense independently. The solution main features are the following:

-Modular: Adaptable to any space and any type of floors (normal or raised floors).
- It creates different zones with different temperatures within one office.
- Each employee can control the temperature in his own heating zone.
-Management can control the overall heating system and avoid overheating.
- Configuration of heating zones and pressure control sensors can be adapted as needed.
- Pressure control feature – ability to detect presence via sensors and only heat spaces in use.

-Remotely controllable through the cloud-based software that allows to be managed from any PC or smartphone.

The company has already successfully installed its smart floor heating technology in several offices of multinational companies located in Spain.

In order to increase at international level the number of smart heating floors installed in offices, the Spanish company is looking for cooperation through commercial agreements with technical assistance, with partners in the construction sector such as architecture studios, building companies, engineering firms, etc.
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Advantages and Innovations

-Increases of employees’ comfort and productivity:
•Ability to create heating zones within a room - each employee can control the temperature of his own desk area.
•No discomfort as with legacy heating systems; convection, air drying, allergies, headaches, etc.
•Floor heating is the most comfortable heating system - keeps the feet and body warm while the head stays cool.

-Savings in energy consumption (up to 30%):
• Ability to only heat zones in use thanks to pressure-control sensors embedded within the tiles.
• No inertia - highly efficient heating system, heat is felt instantly, less heating time.

-Easy and fast installation.

Stage Of Development

Already on the market

Requested partner

The company is looking for worldwide partners in order to start its internationalization process. Main partners sought are architecture studios, building companies and engineering firms interested in incorporating this technology to their offices buildings projects under commercial agreement with technical assistance.

Cooperation offer is closed for requests