by Brianna Crandall — November 18, 2015—Building Robotics, a software company working to revolutionize the way people interact with buildings, recently announced the launch of a new ecosystem of technologies to improve people’s daily lives through enhanced control of their personal workplace.
Called +Comfy (“Plus Comfy”), the solution builds on the company’s current offering, Comfy, to expand the occupant experience of building systems via a single unified interface. +Comfy allows individuals to control temperature, lighting, windows, and more, all from Comfy’s smartphone app or any Web browser.
Although it may require an adjustment of energy management strategies, the smart building platform is expected to cut down on the conflicting daily requests (“too hot” / “too cold,” etc.) that facilities managers receive from various parts of a building from occupants with differing perceptions of the ambient temperature and conditions.
The +Comfy ecosystem includes hardware technologies from companies including CommScope, Intel Corp., Lutron and View, and will continue to incorporate additional smart-building technologies to help reach the goal of enhancing the occupant experience and increasing employee productivity and satisfaction.
Andrew Krioukov, co-founder and CEO of Building Robotics, commented:
We spend over a third of our lives at work, so we should be just as comfortable in our offices as we are in our living rooms. +Comfy lets people easily adjust their environment to their personal preferences. We’re excited to offer more ways for people to customize comfort in the workplace.
Comfy, Building Robotics’ software, provides a “delightful” user experience, quick and simple integration to existing building systems, and machine learning to improve building operations. +Comfy leverages these same principles to make building technologies better for occupants and those that manage them, including:
Elegant, intuitive user experience: Comfy is about making the technology of the buildings people work in accessible, transparent, and easy to use. +Comfy extends this design focus to new technologies in the creation of a unified and elegant interface.
Interconnectivity: Buildings are already full of incredible technologies, but they are not always available to the people who work there. +Comfy creates a network of intelligent systems that work seamlessly together and support employees’ daily lives, collaborative work, and creativity.
Collective intelligence: With Comfy, both the occupants of a building and the system itself benefit by learning what people want, resulting in happier, more productive environments. +Comfy brings together technologies that collect dynamic data sets that intelligently interact. By learning and predicting individual preferences over time, +Comfy creates a new workplace experience.
For more information, visit the +Comfy Web page.