Aircuity
Aircuity is the leading manufacturer of facility monitoring systems that cost-effectively reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. The portable system, known as Optima was developed in collaboration with Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc., the primary research contractor for the EPA’s Indoor Environments Division. An automated process captures key data points from building operating systems, performs an in-depth and expert analysis of the information, and provides result based outcomes regarding performance and identifies potential areas to be optimized within the facility. Optima earned R&D magazine’s prestigious Technology Award (2002), which annually recognizes the 100 most technologically significant new products and processes.
In February of 2005, a permanently installed version of the system was introduced named OptiNet. Its patented system provides a centralized sensor platform capable of analyzing a broad array of environmental conditions throughout a commercial building by means of a distributed, multi-point air-sampling network. These continuously sensed environmental parameters are then fed as control signals to the facility’s building management system to optimize the building’s ventilation for energy efficiency and environmental quality.
OptiNet’s game-changing technology of remote sampling with centralized sensing addresses acknowledged deficiencies inherent in conventional approaches to optimizing building ventilation. The result is sensing-based ventilation control that finally delivers on the long-sought promise of buildings designed for both energy efficiency and environmental quality in response to dynamic building conditions at a time when this matters more than ever.
The OptiNet installed system is suitable for a broad range of commercial building applications where energy savings and enhanced indoor environmental quality are important, including offices, laboratories, hospitals, educational institutions, museums, convention centers and sports arenas.
