Smart Glass World is a vendor-independent portal dedicated exclusively to the smart glass sector. We aim to educate end-users in the technologies, products and benefits of smart and functional materials.
Our target audience includes architects, interior designers, smart city advocates, building services engineers and OEM product managers.
Our experience is based on over 13 years manufacturing smart glass based end-products (through our parent company ArtRatio) and as distributors of several smart glass technologies.
Our advice centres on suspended particle devices, liquid crystal, electrochromic, thermo/photo-chromic and transparent photovoltaic glass, as well as augmented-reality smart glass wearables.
The Team
Manoj Phatak, C.Eng CITP LEED Green Associate
Founder & CEO
Manoj’s first experience with glass goes back to the fabrication of optical waveguides as a final year project at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (Southampton University) in 1990, where he was sponsored by Ferranti Semiconductors.
As a UK Chartered Engineer, Manoj has 30+ years experience leading digital transformation projects for eGovernment, automotive, telecoms and finance sectors. End-clients include Shell, Adidas, Barclays, Roche and SwissRe.
In 2008 Manoj founded ArtRatio, a manufacturer of smartglass IoT display cases for the art & luxury sector. Clients include: the National Museum of Sweden, Harvard University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Van Cleef & Arpels.
Manoj has degrees in software & electronics engineering from Oxford and Southampton Universities respectively, and holds a European patent for a novel method to display and conserve light-sensitive materials using the dynamic properties of smartglass.
Tobias Hahn
Chief Commercial Officer
Tobias Hahn began his professional career in the family-run glazing company Glasbau Hahn, which was founded in 1837, where he completed both craft, technical and commercial training. He then worked in various roles as fitter, project manager, operations manager and general manager.
He gained experience on construction sites around the world, in the implementation and assembly of showcases in museums, projects of structural glass engineering and facade glazing.
The fascination for the material glass in combination with state of the art technology led him to Smartglass World. In particular, the requirements in terms of sustainability and energy efficiency for modern buildings can be excellently implemented and complemented with intelligent, smart glass solutions.
His extensive experience with challenging projects in various fields makes him a sought-after source of advice and ideas for architects, designers and builders.
He is a trained glazier, graduate in business administration and expert in architectural glass. He has implemented designs for I. M. Pei, Jean Nouvel, Mario Botta, Konstantin Grčić and Yoshio Taniguchi.