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Indoor Air Quality
LEFT: Carrier corporate in the United Sates. BOTTOM: Carrier senior VP, Bobby George.
Amazon deal provides indoor health as a service
CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), to offer addi- tional industry-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions in AWS Marketplace.
These solutions will include SaaS offerings in the areas of HVAC performance, sustainability, and safety and security. The collaboration is part of Carrier's growing investment in digitally enabled lifecycle solutions designed to inspire confidence in the health and safety of indoor environments.
"Carrier is already delivering digi- tal solutions like Abound and Lynx to its building and cold chain cus- tomers on AWS, and we see tremen- dous industry opportunities to do even more together," according to Bobby George, senior vice president & chief digital officer, Carrier. "The strategic collaboration agreement
between Carrier and AWS is a multi-year engage- ment that brings investments together to acceler- ate our digital capabilities, our go-to-market initiatives and deliver even more value to our customers through digital solutions."
The strategic collaboration agreement builds on Carrier's ongoing work with AWS after joining the AWS Partner Network (APN) in 2021 to deliver digital solutions like Abound and Lynx to new types of customers.
The Abound digital platform, powered by AWS, offers a suite of smart con- nected solutions for healthier, safer and more sustainable buildings. Abound aggregates, analyzes and visualises data collected from vari- ous building systems, equipment and sensors and provides in near real-time insights about indoor air quality, thermal comfort and energy usage.
Abound is installed across a wide range of verticals including commercial real estate, sports and entertainment venues, healthcare facilities, schools, hotels and retail.
Using AWS IoT Core, analytics and machine learning (ML) services, Carrier's Lynx digital platform gives customers around the world enhanced visibility, increased connectivity and actionable intelligence across their cold chain operations to improve outcomes for temperature-sensitive cargo, including food, medicine and vaccines.
AWS director of business application alli- ances, Flemming Kongsberg, said customers across various industries are looking for digital solutions to increase efficiencies, gain insights and better operate their businesses.
“Working together with Carrier, AWS will make it easier for customers to use cloud infra- structure to deliver additional capabilities and increasing value” he said.
Filterless purifiers using Ansys technology
US AND INDIA-BASED technology startup Praan has developed its latest filterless air puri- fication technology using Ansys.
The company's advanced technology includes filterless purifiers for indoor air in large spaces with near-zero maintenance costs, and an advanced tablet-based activated carbon filter.
To help mitigate the worldwide problem of air pollution, Praan designed the MK One and MK Two for large spaces.
The advanced air purification technologies, which were designed with Ansys Fluent compu- tational fluid dynamics, capture polluted air, separate microscopic particulate matter (par- ticle pollution) into a collection chamber, and release cleaner air back into the atmosphere.
Additionally, Praan offsets any carbon diox- ide emitted during manufacturing through afforestation or direct air capture methods,
making all their products net-zero. "With Ansys simulation, our team significantly reduced the development time of functional pro- totypes from four and a half years to 45 days," according to Angad Daryani, founder and chief executive officer at Praan. "Without simulation, it would have cost tens of millions of dollars and lots of time. It's just not feasible when building large devices to build multiple physical proto- types, which is why it's essential for us to incor- porate Ansys simulation and virtual prototyping
into our development and design processes." Beyond its strides with filterless technology in industrial markets, Praan also used Ansys
simulation to develop the HIVE air purifier for smaller spaces.
The HIVE uses an advanced tablet-based activated carbon filter and a recyclable high- efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, ensuring complete reuse without the disposal of unsus- tainable materials. HEPA filtration was instru- mental during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to be a vital tool in mitigating air- borne bacteria. For the HIVE, Praan used Ansys simulation solutions to understand fan require- ments and develop specifications in two weeks, rather than the estimated four months it would have taken without simulation.
The HIVE
air purifier
is for smaller spaces.
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