Emerson Constructing Home in Helix Innovation Center
The 'home inside a building' will serve as a working laboratory
DAYTON, Ohio — A 2,000-square-foot, two-story home is being built inside The Helix innovation center by Emerson Climate Technologies Inc., a business segment of Emerson. The “home inside a building” will serve as a working laboratory, enabling faster testing of the company’s future innovations in comfort, energy savings, and connected-home concepts. The residential connected-home module, which will feature ambient controls to simulate a range of below-freezing to hot, humid weather conditions, is being constructed by Emerson as one of five modules within The Helix innovation center on the University of Dayton campus.
“We will be evaluating comfort and energy savings from every angle,” said Hung Pham, director of integrated technologies, air conditioning business, Emerson Climate Technologies. “This home module in The Helix will allow us to change refrigerants, HVAC systems, airflow, and weather to help evaluate the impact on human comfort and health from the standpoint of air conditioning, heating, IAQ, humidity, noise, lighting, and other factors.”