Qarnot (QH-1)
Qarnot (QH-1) - Making buildings smart with free computing waste heat
QH-1 heats buildings by reusing waste-heat from microprocessors performing high performance computations remotely.
Given that data entres consume 3% of the world's electricity, QH-1 takes advantage of this lost heat and uses it as a heat source to warm rooms. Through a disruptive and distributed infrastructure, it provides cloud computing where computing power is no longer deployed in concentrated data centers, but split throughout the city. Buildings become "smart" because of QH-1. It offers free heating, Wi-Fi, an auto-scheduled heating mode, remote control, voice command, air quality monitoring, fire alarm detection, presence and intrusion detection. QH-1 heats social housing units and building offices for free while computing remotely for major banks, 3D animation studios and research labs.
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Key features
- •Carbon footprint of computations reduced by an estimated 70%-75%.
- •Significantly lowers maintenance and energy costs.
- •No heating bill thanks to QH-1.
Profitability
- •A payback period of 5-7 years for building owners along with significantly lower maintenance and energy costs.
SDG’s of application
Maturity Stage
- Medium and large scale commercialization
- Small scale commercialization
- Initial market commercialization
- Prototype testing in the real world
- Prototype testing 1:1 in the lab
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Europe
Austria, Åland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Svalbard and Jan Mayen,
North america
Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States,
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