Consultancy, technologies, benefits and opportunities for smart glass in the construction, healthcare, transportation and retail sectors.
Smart Glass World is an industry-wide portal and vendor-independent consultancy, dedicated exclusively to the smart glass sector.
We aim to advise customers in the technologies, products and benefits of smart and functional materials. Our target audience includes architects, interior designers, property developers, building services engineers as well as the medical, transportation & consumer appliances sectors.
Our experience is based on over 13 years purchasing smart glass, manufacturing smart glass based end-products and as distributors. Our advice centres on SPD, PDLC, electrochromic, thermochromic, photochromic and transparent photovoltaic glass.
Expert interview with Lennart ten Kate of eLstar Dynamics, who explains how their electrophoresis-based smart glass solves key issues in the architectural and transport sectors.
Photochromic glass promotes sustainable architecture and compliance with green building standards such as LEED and BREEAM, by allowing interiors to meet the minimum daylighting requirements of 300 lux across 50% of building space, without the accompanying increase in HVAC costs.
Expert Interview with Veeral Hardev of Ubiquitous Energy who explains how their transparent photovoltaic glass will bring aesthetically-pleasing, electricity-generating windows to the mainstream market.
We are joined by Ronen Lin, Executive Director of Smart Films International based in Israel, who talks to us about the PDLC smart glass industry.
George Rubin of Cerebral Strategy gives his opinion on the market trends and the future of the smart glass sector, based on 20 years experience at the cutting edge of smart glass and photovoltaics.
Thermochromic smart glass reduces solar heat gain into buildings, reducing air conditioning costs and contributing to ‘net-zero’ construction.
The colour rendering capabilities of smart glass facades in healthcare facilities can directly influence medical diagnoses that rely on a visual observation of the colour of human tissue.
With no applied voltage, the liquid crystals in PDLC smart glass orient randomly and scatter light. When an electrical signal is applied, the liquid crystals orient themselves parallel to each other, allowing light through and illuminating parts of the building which would otherwise remain in darkness.
Smart glass materials, both active and passive, offer huge benefits in reducing air conditioning costs by dynamically limiting solar radiation in buildings and vehicles. They also offer privacy for healthcare and exclusivity for retailers, adjusting their behaviour to changing solar conditions.
Whether you are an architect, interior designer, smart city advocate, transportation engineer or consumer appliance manufacturer, smart glass can bring sustainable and intelligent solutions for your customers.