Smart glass is a portfolio of new technologies which are based on new achievements in material science, demands on energy efficiency and comfort and smart building automation requirements and are reaching a new momentum.
This is not technology hype but the matureness of technologies and emergence of new ones that will become a $700 million market in the next couple of years. Energy harvesting and smart glass technologies are a natural fit, since they complement and supplement each other in the pursuit of clean energy and efficient use of energy in the built infrastructure.The natural formula for a sustainable energy system is first to accomplish energy efficiency (smart glass), recover energy from the environment and then satisfy the reduced energy demand with cleaner technologies (energy harvesting).
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