Smarter AC from Mitsubishi

August 26th, 2012 by Chelsea

The future is cool, but not too cool. Mitsubishi has developed an air conditioner that can sense if there’s a human body in the room, turning off if there’s no one around.

The ZW series has two sensors that can switch between low-consumption mode if a human body hasn’t been sensed in the room within a few minutes to off if a person hasn’t been detected for 30 minutes.

The ZW series is going to be available in November and will retail for about $2,651.

Source: Earth Techling

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Tags: air conditioning, energy efficient air conditioning, Mitsubishi, smart air conditioning

About the Author

Chelsea is a former newspaper reporter who has spent the past few years teaching English in Poland, Finland and Japan. When she wasn't teaching or writing, Chelsea was traveling Europe and Asia, sampling spicy street food along the way.

Tom G.

There is no doubt that Mitsubishi makes some fine products. However, $2,651.for a window AC unit borders on insanity. Oh wait, the picture contained with this article showing a wall of window air conditioning units is NOT what ZW units are.

Mitsubishi is selling the ZW series which is commonly referred to as split AC units which means the compressor and condensing fans are located outside of the building. A small 3-4″ dia hole goes through the wall and the evaporator and blower fan unit are mounted inside the home. This type of unit can be manufactured to be very quiet and efficient with SEER ratings of over 20. Not only that, these units typically only cool the rooms the units are installed in. In other words the 15-25% cooling losses which can occurs in duct work is eliminated making the units even more efficient.

Anyway I just thought everyone should know what we are talking about – in this case, a picture is NOT worth a thousand words, LOL. Now if it was me and I wanted to sell a bunch of these units in the good old USofA I would reduce the price by about $1,000. More and more people in America are finding themselves making less and less money.
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