Windows with automated security functions
Bedroom windows in urban areas require more and more intelligent functions. The Bern University of Applied Sciences is tinkering with various new window prototypes with noise and safety functions in its workshop of the future.
From the "Autowindow" of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, there is a follow-up project. It is being further developed under the name "M-Window" to enable the digitization of window systems for end users.
Like competence area manager Urs Uehlinger at the "Windays", a symposium of the window and facade industry in Switzerland, elaborated, ventilation, safety and noise functions are to be automated, while at the same time improving energy efficiency. One of the challenges is to intelligently combine sound insulation and ventilation. Bedroom windows in urban areas, for example, require such a combination.
The original project consisted of a Feasibility study on the economic efficiency of functioning automatic windows for residential buildings. The key points are criteria such as minimizing the noise generated by a window drive, research at the interface with building technology, and, for example, decoupling the locking mechanism from the rotary movement mechanism. The project will run until 2023.
The Workshop of the Future, initiated by the Bern University of Applied Sciences, is intended to provide an open and neutral development and demo environment at full scale for this purpose.
Source: Bern University of Applied Sciences
