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Merck eyes potential of ‘smart windows’
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LIQUID crystal display technologies are being applied to windows to save energy and improve room ambience, Germany-based Merck said at a scientific symposium in Shanghai on Thursday.
The smart LCD window reduces energy use and can swiftly adjust between being 100 percent transparent and 100 percent opaque, allowing different amounts of natural daylight into a room depending on the time of day, said Merck’s Roman Maisch.
The LCD windows help keep rooms cooler in the summer by allowing less sunlight to enter.
Adam Greenfield, American network expert and city planner, said the technology has great potential.
“This technology makes it possible for ambient information” such as traffic, weather and news, Greenfield said. “It allows designers to get better and better using graphics, type, color and motion to convey critical information in a very small period of time, to people who may not be necessarily focused to the information. That’s a terrific ambition for smart large-scale displays.”
While LCD windows won’t be on the market anytime soon, they already can make homes more convenient.
“If the window is aware of the number of the people inside the room and who we are, the window itself, properly programed or designed, can begin to create a micro ambience dynamically adapted to the interior conditions based on people’s positions,” he said.
The “smart window” is now in pilot production. Merck plans to install some in an experimental building in Germany April next year.
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