Smarthé is a project presented by Qivivo, a French start-up company based in Nantes devoted to the design of smart thermostats to accelerate the energetic transition and reach the energy efficiency objectives.
Smarthé is the first smart thermostat in the market working completely autonomous and managing the heating by optimizing the comfort perceived by inhabitants as a whole. Our pilot tests done in public buildings have reported savings up to 200€/household per year. For a country like France, with almost 5 million of social apartments, this represents a return of €1 billion of purchasing power.
Since Qivivo received the positive result of their project, they have updated the technical tasks by incorporating the most-recent market demands and revised the business plan for the following years. The most relevant outputs that have been executed are:
• Development of new products to incorporate a multizoned management for central boiler, and the corresponding solution for electric heating
• Boost our presence in the public housing sector by implementing specific solutions for this collective
• Internationalization strategy: an experienced business developer with several connections in Europe has joined our team and is already working in the field in establishing the necessary network of stakeholders to deploy Smarthé.
Smarthé project is already supported by different companies in the entire value chain: Lacroix Electronics (manufacturer), Saint Gobain (shareholder and enabler of the internationalization thanks to their subsidiaries in UK and Sweden), Chappée (heating system manufacturers and distributors), Nantes Habitat and Maine & Loire Habitat (public housing entities).
Smarthé represents an innovative tool in the sector of smart thermostats whose efficiency has been contrasted with our partners Podeliha and Nantes Habitat, independent real estate consultants operating in France.
Thanks to Qivivo thermostat each home can become an active actor against global warming, with a thermostat that allows not only to optimize the perceived comfort but also to reduce the energy bill up to 40%.
With a more natural interaction, we move towards objects that maximize the benefits of connectivity, but integrate the human factor through real consideration of the comfort of the end user. Heating is finally adapted to the needs of people, combining improved comfort and reduction of the bill, avoiding waste of energy and respecting also the environment.
