Smart heating tool crowdsources the perfect temperature

CrowdComfort is a crowd reporting tool that helps facility managers discover where they need to deliver more or less heat to satisfy occupants.

When it come to winter, people feel the cold in different ways — some can stand the chill, while others need to have the heating on full blast. CrowdComfort is a crowd reporting tool that helps facility managers discover where they need to deliver more or less heat to satisfy occupants.

Building operators can get anyone who uses the facility — whether it’s an office, hotel or tower block — to download the CrowdComfort app. Through their smartphones, residents can then either rate their comfort level or report a maintenance issue. Users can report whether they’re too hot or too cold, and the data is sent to managers along with a timestamp and geolocation that details where that person is in the building. They can then use the data to distribute heating according to residents’ needs, creating a more efficient and environmentally-friendly way to manage the building. Operators can also respond to problems more quickly through the use of residents’ mobile devices. The video below explains more about the concept:

In the past, we’ve seen products such as Chüne enable partygoers to indicate their music taste to create a crowdsourced playlist of tracks that caters to everyone. Could a business idea like CrowdComfort be merged with this model to enable resident voting on things such as heat level to create a micro-democratic environment?