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Eco-Solutions

Eco-solution 1: Incorporating “Spider”
Device on Existing Air- Conditioning Units

The “Spider” is a device attached to an air-conditioning “Spider” Device
unit configurable and capable of controlling the team The “Spider” device comprises an Arduino-based
remotely via a mobile application. The main aim of the computing module with add-ons to supplement wireless
“Spider” is to switch off units when it is not in use. For communications (Wi-Fi and infra-red). The infra-red add-
example, the “Spider” switches off the air-conditioning on provides simplex communication from the “Spider”
unit after working hours, over weekends and during to the air-conditioning unit. In contrast, the Wi-Fi add-
meal hours to reduce power consumption. The device on provides the duplex communication link between the
uses IoT through infra-red commands, with the “Spider” and the office’s router (see Figure 4).
communication link established between the spider and
mobile application via the company’s Circle Platform.
The Circle Platform is a cloud-based platform providing
services to merchants and tenants.

Figure 4: Overview diagram of Spider’s incorporation.

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