ShadeMe

About ShadeMe

ShadeMe is a Swiss start-up to deliver smart blinds and smart shading controllers to commerical buildings.

After five-year development in EPFL, ShadeMe offers decentralized anti-glare fully automated blinds for office buildings, which embed a compact controller integrating sensors and processors inside, employing the most advanced technology to protect users from disturbance of the strong sunlight.

They maintain sufficient daylight in the building, while saving lighting, cooling and heating energy. ShadeMe blinds are not only easy-to-install (setup) as decentralized units, but also feature an APP for personalized set-up in each room. They target for the office buildings, schools, hospitals, museums, factories, and residential villas.

ShadeMe is a Swiss start-up to deliver smart blinds and smart shading controllers to commerical buildings.

After five-year development in EPFL, ShadeMe offers decentralized anti-glare fully automated blinds for office buildings,

which embed a compact controller integrating sensors and processors inside, employing the most advanced technology to protect users from disturbance of the strong sunlight.

They maintain sufficient daylight in the building, while saving lighting, cooling and heating energy.

ShadeMe blinds are not only easy-to-install (setup) as decentralized units, but also feature an APP for personalized set-up in each room. They target for the office buildings, schools, hospitals, museums, factories, and residential villas.

Mission

ShadeMe

Deliver visual comfort natural light for users, and make buildings greener!

Honor & Prize

Support

ShadeMe has been supported the EPFL Innogrant, ENAC Innoseed, Innosuisse start-up coaching, EnablebyDesign and VentureKick Stage I. It also won the 2nd prize in the Climate LaunchPad competition (Switzerland), and 'Chunhui Cup' Innovation & Entrepreneurship competition.

Technology

Sun-glare tracking technology

The ShadeMe control box employs the ultra-wide luminance sensing technology with an identical spectral response as human eyes. It can monitor the directional light from the sky and track the glare from the sun. Using the advanced ray-tracing technology, it can calculate precisely the daylight reaching into users' eyes, adjusting blinds to the optimal position in real-time.

Team

Switzerland & China

ShadeMe has an efficient international team and advisory board. Each team member can show their talents and strengths in technology, management and marketing.

Problem

Strong sunlight

Have you ever been disturbed by the strong sunlight when working in your office? It contribute to the 15% loss of your productivity due to disturbance. Users often keep blinds at the same position for a long time, the excessive daylight penetration increase 30% energy consumption in lighting, cooling or heating. The ShadeMe decentralized anti-glare smart blinds are designed for occupants in commercial buildings, delivering visual comfort daylight and making buildings greener.

Product

Advantage:

Anti-glare protection

Maintain sufficient daylight

Easy-to-install (decentralized)

Personalized setup & override

(EN 12464-1 standard)

Technology:

High-speed sensing

Identical V(λ) eye response

Advanced sun tracking tech

Light prediction to user-eye

Patents:

2 PCT patents pending

(Hardware & Software)

PCT/IB2018/055889

PCT/IB2019/053199

Technology

Merits

Decentralized: each blind works independently with personalized set-up for each room (user), perfect for private office rooms...

Merits

1. Decentralized: each blind works independently with personalized set-up for each room (user), perfect for private office rooms.

2. Anti-glare: with the advanced sun-tracking & ray-tracing technology, ShadeMe blinds deliver sufficient daylight without disturbance from the strong sunlight, for comfort working experience.

3. Easy-to-install: with all the sensors, processors, and actuators integrated inside, ShadeMe blinds are easy-to-install in existing buildings without the installation of room sensors (ceiling) or refurbishment needs.