Daikin Industries, Ltd. will begin demonstrations for a new HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system at Toyota Woven City starting September 25, 2025. Its purpose is to generate IAQ and air environments where people can enjoy greater comfort and better physical and mental health. Through these demonstrations, the company aims for social implementation of an air conditioning and ventilation system that provides pollen-free spaces. At the same time, Daikin will attempt to verify the value of personalized functional spaces created by combining and controlling such elements as air, video, audio, and scents.
Hay fever and chronic stress have become social issues that hinder the healthy lifestyles of people and lead to lower productivity for society. This is why Daikin has been working to develop technologies for “pollen-less” and “personalized functional” spaces.
These demonstrations intend to accelerate the development of pollen-less spaces and aim for social implementation to residential, office, commercial facility, retail store, and mobility spaces while also exploring the usefulness of personalized functional spaces. Air conditioning systems built based on knowledge gained from past efforts will be installed in Toyota Woven City to create even greater value with air by utilizing the various data continuously being obtained from Toyota Woven City and the feedback from residents who use the air conditioning systems.
Summary of the Demonstrations at Toyota Woven City
Air conditioning and ventilation system that creates pollen-less spaces
- This demonstration will seek to clarify the pathways and environmental conditions for pollen entering residential dwellings and also test HVAC equipment combinations and operation methods capable of suppressing pollen from entering indoors while also removing existing pollen to the greatest extent possible.
- Specifically, sensors will be installed inside and outside residential dwellings to detect temperature, humidity, pollen, dust, human movement, and the opening of windows. In addition to identifying pathways for pollen, the demonstration will determine changes in the amount of pollen entering dwellings according to differences in the amounts of indoor and outdoor pollen, temperature and humidity, and behavior of residents.
- Furthermore, Daikin is also building an air conditioning and ventilation system that consists of air conditioners, ventilation equipment, and purifiers and will connect the system to the various installed sensors. Utilizing feedback from residents, the company will investigate methods for operation of the air conditioning and ventilation system that prevents pollen from entering indoors and effectively removes it.
Integrated control system for air, video, audio, and scents that creates “personalized functional spaces”
- With control that links multi-sensory elements, including temperature and humidity, video, audio, and scents, Daikin is working to build an integrated control system that creates new spatial experiences that extend beyond the conventional boundaries of air conditioning, including spaces that recreate air from each region of the world and spaces that promote relaxation and creativity.
- This demonstration aims to create spatial experiences in response to human emotions and actions, such as cool, quiet spaces evoking the highlands when wanting to concentrate, or spaces providing the feeling of being surrounded in sunshine and tropical scents when wanting to relax.
- • Specifically, in addition to the subjective emotions of those residing in these spaces, Daikin will also use sensors to determine vital objective data and utilize multisensory integration technologies that control such elements as temperature, humidity, video, audio, and scents to create spaces that stimulate multiple senses. The effectiveness of these spaces will be tested, and feedback from residents will also be utilized.
[Demonstration image of a pollen-less space]
[Demonstration image of a personalized functional space]
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