Glass facades characterise modern architecture. While solar radiation serves to support heating in winter, the building interior heats up in summer and requires active cooling. Smart windows can regulate the solar radiation according to the weather situation – a forward-looking solution in times of energy saving. Fraunhofer FEP (Dresden, Germany) has now succeeded in producing the world's first thermochromic layer on ultra-thin glass in a roll-to-roll process. These results will make mechanical blinds superfluous in the future and at the same time reduce the cooling and heating energy requirements of a building.
Finnish In-Mould Structural Electronics (IMSE)pioneer TactoTek (Oulu, Finland) will host IMSE Days 4.0 with presenters from across the IMSE ecosystem from 5-7 October 2022. The keynotes will unfold how 3D smart surfaces built with IMSE technology can help to unleash design capabilities and differentiate in the marketplace.
Identiv, Inc. (Fremont, California), a global digital security and identification leader in IoT, collaborates with collectID from Switzerland to deliver an NFC-enabled immersive fan experience for German football club 1. FC Köln. The activation leverages Identiv’s NFC life-of-garment tags to provide fans with enhanced real-time match day access to exclusive digital content.
