"Imagine the day when
a fifty story mid-rise will change its glass "skin" façade as
the day progresses, taking into account the landlord's operational
requirements, tenant customization, the temperature outdoors, and the
amount of sunlight hitting each window - Welcome to the world of windows
controlled by SCSC."
SPD Control Systems Corporation's
(SCSC) only products are controllers and control systems to operate any
and all SPD products. We are dedicated to becoming the vendor of choice
for any size implementation of SPD Smart Glass. The two
developments discussed in this letter are very important milestones
toward reaching our goal.
SPD Control Systems
Corporation is currently developing an 8-window automotive
controller. This controller is the first controller in our microprocessor-based
SPD controller family.
The 8-window automotive
controller is based on a core controller design, referred to as our baseline
controller. The baseline controller is the foundation of our
controller product family.
The baseline design allows
our engineering team to quickly respond to automotive and architectural
customer requirements for different controller configurations. From the
baseline design we can support:
·Various
inter-controller communication mechanisms to support any scale of SPD
implementation
ØCAN bus, LIN bus, Wireless or LAN based
communications
·Any
number of windows
·Any size
windows or combination of sizes
·Any type
of switches to manually control windows
·DC or AC
power sources
8-Window Automotive Controller. The first controller, derived from the baseline design,
is an 8-window prototype automotive controller. In parallel we
are developing our 8-window architectural controller as described in
the next section. The 1-window automotive OEM controller will be our
third development. The single window automotive OEM controllers may be
collocated with SPD windows and communicate over automotive busses for
coordinated operations.
SPD Control
Systems Corporation will receive a $580,000 matching funds contract from the
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for the
development and demonstration of a state-of-the-art, patent pending control
system for architectural glazing products that use suspended particle
device (SPD-SmartÔ) light-control film technology.
The SPD Master Building Control System will also have an
interface to other building control systems for the coordinated control of
HVAC, lighting, and other building services.
The NYSERDA contract enables
SCSC to build upon its control systems developed for SPD-Smart automotive
smart windows, to accelerate the development of its control systems for SPD
architectural glazings, to verify the operation of the wireless mesh
network in a building environment, and to test advanced algorithms capable
of dynamically changing window tinting throughout the year based upon the
location of the sun, given a buildings geographic location, time of day and
day of year, combined along with sensor data input.
"We are
extremely excited to receive this contract from NYSERDA," said Jay
Moskowitz, Chairman and Founder of SPD Control Systems Corporation.
"According to the United States Department of Energy, buildings in the
United States use nearly forty percent of the nation's energy. Our Wireless
Building Control System is a significant advancement in sustainability
because it helps optimize the daylighting and energy savings benefits offered
by SPD architectural glazings.With
such extensive consumption of energy in buildings both domestically and
abroad, we expect our control system, and the SPD glazings with which it is
integrated, to be a major component of the world's most energy efficient
buildings. Studies have shown that as much as 20% of a buildings energy
consumption could be saved by employing these products."
