The effort of AirAdvice’s co-founder and vice president of engineering, Meindert Kleefstra, the company’s new patent illustrates the company’s expansive knowledge of environmental sensors and how to effectively implement them into successful products.
AirAdvice’s new patent, with patent number #7,499,821 B2, is for a method of measuring sensor drift characteristics, incorporating the data acquisition system, sensor conditioning system, and acceptance criteria system, and it assists to understand this sensor phenomenon. This pioneering way of tracking sensor performance enables the company to use only the best performing sensors in their product lines and to standardize only those that will meet their high standard of performance in the field. It is also utilized as an R&D tool as part of ongoing product development to work with the sensor industry partners to enhance the long-term performance of their sensor technology.
For the company’s customers, usually commercial and residential contractors and other service providers, the effect of this development, and of the company’s continuous sensor innovation, is that they can anticipate even more precise and reliable sensors in the field. Particularly in commercial buildings, the sensors drift out of calibration, leading to imprecise readings, and thus, wrong energy usage data.
