PROJECTINFRAHEAT
InfraHeat.
TU/e · 4WBB0 Engineering Design
November 2022
November 2022
OVERVIEW
Heat the person, not the room.
InfraHeat is a ceiling-mounted infrared heater that aims at the person — not the room. A camera with on-device object recognition tracks where the inhabitant is sitting; an articulated head re-points the heating element to follow.
The argument: a household running an air-conditioned heat pump spends thousands of watts to keep an empty kitchen at twenty degrees. Spot heating uses tens. Designed in the middle of the 2022 European energy crisis, when the brief practically wrote itself.
The argument: a household running an air-conditioned heat pump spends thousands of watts to keep an empty kitchen at twenty degrees. Spot heating uses tens. Designed in the middle of the 2022 European energy crisis, when the brief practically wrote itself.
- Course
- 4WBB0 Engineering Design
- Institution
- TU/e · Industrial Design
- Type
- Group project
- Duration
- ~8 weeks
- Finished
- November 2022
Significance
- Engineering Design
- Sustainability
- Computer Vision
- Product Architecture
- Multidisciplinary Team
- ESP32
- Fusion 360
- 3D Printing
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