ECONAVI technology: Panasonic air conditioners have become intelligent

At the touch of a button you can change the future

That’s how the company talks about ECONAVI, the innovative technology with intelligent eco-sensors. ECONAVI uses a high-precision occupancy sensor to continuously analyze a room’s space and an intelligent control program to optimize the operation of an air conditioner based on the results of this analysis.

ECONAVI recognizes typical energy waste situations and intelligently adjusts heating and cooling capacity. To prevent unnecessary energy consumption, just press the ECONAVI button.

According to company studies, it helps to save up to 35% of electricity in cooling mode and up to 45% in heating mode. Don’t think of it as just looking after your own energy bill: It’s much more than that: it’s looking after future generations and setting a precedent and eco-orientation for many appliance manufacturers.

Gone are the sunny days? Econavi takes this into account

One of ECONAVI’s features is Sunlight Detection. It takes into account changes in the intensity of sunlight in the room and determines whether it is sunny at the moment, how dark the room is – for example, if it is cloudy or night has fallen.

If the light intensity is low, the room temperature reduces itself, so ECONAVI reduces unnecessary air cooling.

It will count you

A smart microprocessor, working “in concert” with the inverter, allows the unit to take into account the number of people in the room and, depending on this, cool or heat the air more or less, operating at high, medium or low compressor speed, respectively.

The technology is not only beneficial in terms of economy, but also for the occupants, who will always feel a comfortable temperature. ECONAVI’s dual sensor covers a large area and has an advanced detection function.

The entire room is divided into several scanning areas, so that practically the entire room can be “monitored” by the sensor.

And identify who is who

ECONAVI scans the space to detect human activity in the room, identifies areas where no one is around and reduces unnecessary cooling.

All objects emit invisible infrared rays that, when scanned by an ECONAVI sensor, are recognized as heat. Infrared sensor detects movement.

If in the scanning zone is detected the movement of an object whose temperature is different from the ambient temperature, the sensor picks up this change. The system detects changing activity levels and absence of people and reduces unnecessary cooling power.

ECONAVI intelligence can even detect what – or rather who – a moving object represents. The speed and characteristics of movement, the frequency and temperature of each of them will tell ECONAVI whether it is a person.

How ECONAVI “thinks”? For example, if the electric appliance caught in the “field of view” of the sensors differs in temperature from the ambient space, but it does not move, it means that it is not human.

A rolling ball, on the other hand, is moving, but does not differ in temperature from its surroundings. Not human either! Flying insects are both moving and warmer than space, but so small that ECONAVI “knows” it’s not human.

But if someone large, warm and moving gets into the scanning zone, the sensors send a signal to the “brain” of the device that this creature can be worked harder – it needs to be heated or, on the contrary, cooled.

A dual sensor directs the airflow immediately to the area where people or activity is present. If running on cooling when activity is low, ECONAVI automatically raises the room temperature a bit, if activity is high, it lowers the temperature to keep the “active” objects cooler.

In a heating operation, the opposite is true: when activity is low, ECONAVI lowers the temperature to avoid wasting energy, since less heat is needed when no or fewer people are present. And when activity increases in the room, the smart sensor will raise the temperature: “Keep warm, friends, I’ll take care of you!”

Viruses? The Nanoe-g will catch and neutralize

Panasonic air conditioners now have a new nanoe-G air purification system that uses nano technology to control tiny particles such as ions and radicals to clean indoor air.

It effectively eliminates bacteria, viruses and mold spores in the air and on various surfaces, creating a healthy living environment and preventing the growth of mold on surfaces and tissues.

The nanoe-G generator emits into the room air a huge number of special nano-particles which attract and trap harmful micro-organisms and deliver them to the air-conditioner filter.

The nanoe-G system will eliminate up to 99% of airborne bacteria, viruses, and mold spores on surfaces and prevent them from growing and spreading in the room.

Up to 99% elimination of harmful particles from the air was confirmed by the Kitagaso Environmental Research Center Japan , where nanoe-g was tested for its effectiveness against Staphylococcus aureus and E. coli bacteria, H1N1 influenza virus and molds.

In a study conducted by the Japan Food Research Laboratory, 99% deactivation of harmful surface microorganisms: Staphylococcus aureus, bacteriophage and mold fungus was confirmed.

Even today Panasonic developed technologies that made split-system almost a reasonable creature. “Almost” only because it is a technique. Though she can take care of nature as a person with environmental education, of health – as a doctor, of purse – as a mother.