Project description
Advanced technology used for glare control
Nowadays, glass used in windows and doors provide more natural light and transparency. However, controlling the amount of light and heat entering a building is an issue. Current glare control solutions are only partly efficient. VideowindoW offers an alternative system. This new technology integrates microscopic pixels into the glass exterior, making the glass façade a transparent media platform adequate for advertisement. The new glare control technology is ideal for urban areas with high traffic. The EU-funded VW project will design a business plan for the European market, identify adequate public areas, elaborate business models, and study the integration of the system into existing glass facades.
Objective
In urban environments, glass offers transparency to buildings and public spaces. It is however always accompanied by glare control solutions to manage the amount of light and heat entering the building. VideowindoW has developed a revolutionary alternative to conventional blinds or awning, which eliminates the choice between daylight or transparency. Multiple transparent modules are integrated into the glass façade, each module consisting of tiny LCD-segments (‘pixels’). The transparency of these pixels is independently controlled at very high speed. This enables the transformation of the glass façade into a transparent media platform. The content shown in the glass façade simultaneously serves as glare control. By using light sensors in combination with a proprietary algorithm the density of the content is calculated to yield the required degree of transparency. VideowindoW reduces energy consumption up to 30% (of which 20% climate control and 10% interior lighting). These savings help customers achieve sustainability goals. Customers now even have the opportunity to turn glass into a source of revenue, as it is transformed into potential advertising space by VideowindoW.
The proposed SME-Instrument project is aimed at the European scale-up of the VideowindoW technology towards high-traffic locations, such as public transport hubs). VideowindoW offers a revolutionary glare control technology with added media functionality and lower energy use, that can be applied to many other market segments as well. Each of these might require a different market approach and tailormade business model.
Specific objectives in this Ph1-study are to explore promising business cases for VideowindoW in public transport hubs, identify other promising market segments, define potential business models to help determine value-based pricing, research how VideowindoW can be optimally integrated in new and existing buildings, and elaborate on a detailed business plan for European scale (D1).
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologymaterials engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
1073KR AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.