Alea Labs Announces FlexAir™ HVAC Controller for Sustainable Home Heating and Cooling
Summary
This product, now in development, is the latest component of the Alea Labs’ air distribution solution and works with the company’s zoning vents and cloud platform to offer unparalleled comfort as well as massive energy savings. Based on data collected from Alea’s network of Smart Air vents and analyzed and processed by Alea’s cloud machine learning and artificial intelligence, the FlexAir controller adaptively adjusts to changing demand and delivers the right amount of heating or cooling, at the right time, to each room.This high efficiency air distribution enables unsurpassed comfort at a fraction of the energy previously consumed. “It is one more step towards completing our vision of a fully integrated platform for managing all aspects of indoor air comfort and quality, and drastically reducing the energy used for heating and cooling buildings.”To test the FlexAir system, Alea partnered with Gradient Thermal, a manufacturer of high-efficiency natural gas combi furnaces with variable-output modulating heating capacity that can be dynamically programmed between 10% and 100% of the maximum capacity. In these field tests, the FlexAir system and Smart Air vents consistently maintained the desired temperature room-by-room, while reducing energy consumption by over 60%. Our shared vision with Alea is to offer homeowners the best innovation in their heating solutions, including true demand-response,” said Cameron Doepker, CEO of Gradient Thermal.