You’ve been away all day and the temperature shot up from a cool 55 in the morning to 90 degrees mid-afternoon. You’re sure that your apartment is sweltering and will feel like a hot house as you step inside after the long commute from work. With a new product from Nature Inc., you can raise the AC from the office or anywhere at all. All you need is Nature Remo mobile app and a few pieces of hardware to instantly connect with and control any window-mounted or through-wall AC unit.
Nature Remo includes two units, the Controller and the Power Plug. The Controller uses Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet and infrared to communicate with room ACs, and is equipped with temperature, humidity, motion, illumination and voice sensors. It can also detect motion in the room. The Power Plug supplies power to the Controller and can read power consumption and control the outlet.
In the current release, Nature Remo includes the Controller, AC adaptor (to supply the Controller with power) and mobile app. The Power Plug will be released by year’s end, and will enable customers to use Nature Remo for room ACs without a remote. The Power Plug’s ability to read consumption also opens the door to the use of Nature Remo for demand management. Nature Remo has the potential to connect millions of room ACs to the internet to participate in energy demand management programs. Room ACs contribute up to 15% of peak electricity demand in NYC and Tokyo.
The product will be officially released in August 2016. No pricing information is available.
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