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thermo Smart 2.009 Product Engineering Process Orange Team December 8, 2008 Product Overview Improve comfort Save energy Do-it-yourself install overview design considerations business plan

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thermoSmart

2.009 Product Engineering Process Orange Team December 8, 2008

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Product Overview

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • ü Improve comfort

ü Save energy ü Do-it-yourself install

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Typical Home

Furnace Rob’s Room Tiff’s Room

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thermoSMART

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90°

66°

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Rob’s Room Tiff’s Room Furnace

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design considerations

  • business plan
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Components

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Coordinator
  • HVAC Controller
  • smartGrate
  • smartTemp
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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Comparison
  • Design considerations
  • Improves

Comfort Improves Efficiency Do-it- yourself Cost Space Heater ü

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$70

MyTemp

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$8,000

thermoSmart ü ü ü

$400 Purchase Options

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smartGrate

  • Coordinator
  • HVAC Controller
  • smartTemp
  • thermoSMART
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design considerations

  • business plan
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ü Sufficient battery life ü Minimum tool requirement ü Wireless communication

Usability Considerations

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design considerations

  • business plan
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Wireless Communication

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Coordinator
  • HVAC Controller
  • smartGrate
  • smartTemp
  • Furnace
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ü Time to temperature

ü Up to 15% reduction ü $200 off heating bill!

ü Scheduling feature

ü Additional 7% reduction ü $100 more off heating bill!

Saving Energy

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design considerations

  • business plan
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ü Even temperature distribution

Eliminate overheating

ü Desired temperature

Room-by-room basis

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Comfort

“I used to work down in the basement. It was so cold that I had to turn the heat up in the entire house to 76º in order to keep from freezing. I had to move my office upstairs so I could keep the house at 68º.”

  • New England homeowner
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Simulation to model system constraints

ü Healthy air flow into rooms ü No damage to furnace

Control algorithm

ü Determine grate position

Technical Considerations

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design considerations

  • business plan
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Actual Result

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  • business plan
  • ü 10% reduction in the

required heating time in a house

  • ü Correlates to 10% energy

savings

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q Implementing the scheduling function q Consolidation of electronics

  • q Multiple grate sizes manufacture

q Universal HVAC Controller interface

Future Development

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • short term
  • long term
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Purchase Options

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Basic
  • HVAC

Controller

  • Expansion

Pack

  • Premium
  • basic pack

$179.99

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Purchase Options

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Basic
  • HVAC

Controller

  • Expansion

Pack

  • Premium
  • premium pack

$389.99

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Purchase Options

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Basic
  • HVAC

Controller

  • Expansion

Pack

  • Premium
  • expansion pack

$58.99

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Purchase Options

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Basic
  • Expansion

Pack

  • Premium
  • HVAC Controller

$34.99

  • HVAC

Controller

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Demo Results

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • ü Maintain rooms at

desired temperatures

  • ü Controls heater with

HVAC Controller

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Business Model

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design considerations

  • business plan
  • Net Present Value: $2.6 million

Internal Rate of Return: 62%

($2,000,000) $0 $2,000,000 $4,000,000 $6,000,000 $8,000,000 $10,000,000 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022

Accumulated Cash Flow

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Professor Wallace and all 2.009 staff, Professor Culpepper, Juhan Sonin, Jane Kokernak, Peter Nielsen, Adele Phillips, Darthur Petron, Zachary Clifford, Professor Leeb, Professor Brisson, Brian Hemond, Stephen Samouhos

  • Thank you!
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  • business plan
  • Picture of orange team
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thermoSmart

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Control Algorithm

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Simulation Modeling

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Business Plan Assumptions

ü $1 Million development cost ü Sales increase by 5% per year ü

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