The home has always been the center of family life, but increasingly it is becoming a place for entertainment, recreation, work, and even health care. With so much now going on in any household, consumers are demanding new products that meet ever-rising standards for quality, style, performance, nergy efficiency, and security.
The TIAX Supportive Home development environment offers a compelling way to leverage technology to gain competitive advantage in this demanding market. Through the Supportive Home Development Environment, TIAX can help clients design, test, and evaluate new products and services for residential use. We combine specialized development laboratories and proprietary tools and models with a deep understanding of key markets, drivers, and trends—accumulated over decades spent working with industry and key government agencies. The TIAX PlaceLab is an instrumented condominium that offers the opportunity to test prototype systems in actual living environments. Results of test performed at the PlaceLab offer insight into practical issues of installation, maintenance, operations, user acceptance, and user preferences. These results help to accelerate the development cycle, which gets products to market more quickly.
Specific Supportive Home services include:
- Development of new residential appliances and products that meet growing market demands for higher performance, enhanced ease-of-use, lower manufacturing cost, improved energy efficiency, and security
- Testing and analysis of residential appliances and products to improve performance, safety, manufacturing cost and energy usage
- Identification and integration of new technologies into existing and next generation products
- Development of prototype implementations of new technologies or product enhancements
- Testing and claims substantiations to assist in preparation of promotional and merchandising materials for residential products and services
The TIAX Supportive Home Development Environment has been developed to help companies in the following industries:
- Residential Appliances including Laundry and Cooking Equipment
- HVAC & Refrigeration
- Water Heating Systems
- Residential Power & Energy Systems
- Sensor & Control Systems including Energy Monitoring