Month: June 2020

Smart glass, (also called switchable glass, intelligent glass, or magic glass ) which is a kind of high-tech product can switch from transparent to opaque instantaneously. It is transparent when power on and it is opaque when power off, light transmission properties can be changed when the voltage is applied.

The glass is composed of toughened glass, EVA/PVB, and smart film which form a sandwich-like structure. The working principle is mainly taken place by the smart film, when power off, visible light scatters through the PDLC of smart film, and the glass turn opaque; when power on, visible light transmits the PDLC of smart film and the glass turns transparent.

The use of smart glass can save costs for heating, air-conditioning, and lighting.

When opaque, liquid crystal, or electric smart glass blocks most UV.

Switchable Glass Application

Application in a hotel shower room, it is enhancing the delight & joy of life, and building an elegant & romantic atmosphere.

Switchable Glass Advantages

1. Strengthen the illusion space

When the switchable glass is on, the whole glass panel is clear with transmittance above 80%, it seems space is extended about 10cm. The visual effect is larger, relief the working pressure, and makes living more comfortable.

2. Easy to clean and check hygiene

When the guests check out, the hotel management and cleaning staff can more easily and clearly know whether needs re-cleaning for problems have. Saves much time, more efficient.

3. More safety

When guests take a bath or in the toilet, they can see all the conditions in the room at glance, and find out if there are outsiders entering the room, it reduces the risk of property damage. Or when you’re taking babies along with you, you can see through the clear glass to watch out just a click of the smart glass remote control when you’re at the bathroom.

4. Save energy

Some guests living in the hotel might forget to turn off the bathroom lights, cost of lightning. However with this switch on/off LCD liquid glass, a reminder to turn off light. Saves energy.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass hotel shower room applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!

Smart PDLC Glass opens up new areas of openness and privacy for modern banks, making the working environment safer. The bulletproof smart switchable glass partition used for the bank counter maintains a transparent state during business operation. Once an emergency occurs, it immediately switches to an atomized state, so that the criminal can not find the target of the attack, thereby maximizing the safety of the staff and avoiding property loss, get more time for police officers to subdue criminals.

Application in banks, convenient for daily operation. When meeting robberies, an application could protect personal and property safety by losing gangsters’ target instantly.

Smart Privacy PDLC Glass Features

1. Privacy Protection

Transparent (Power on), Opaque but light pervious (Powder off) in high switching speed. It’s instantaneous to make the film from completely transparent to fully opaque or vice versa.

2. Energy Saving

In an energized state, only 5W low power consumption per square meter per hour. 60% infrared can be shield by the smart film to reduce heat radiation and transfer; 99% of UV can be a shield to protect interior furnishings from color-fading or aging, to protect personnel from diseases caused by ultraviolet radiation.

3. Sound Proofing

The smart film having a sound damping effect; can effectively block all kinds of noise.

4. Diversified Control

Smart glass is versatile and can be controlled in many ways, like a wall switch, dimmer, motion detector, light, temperature sensor, remote, or remote network control.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass financial banks applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!

The use of smart switchable glass as a partition wall allows you to separate the sections of different functions and maintain communication with the outside world when needed.

When the leading office or conference room needs to protect privacy, just tap the remote control, the glass can be instantly turned from transparent to atomized, and the transparent or atomized state can be switched at will.

Smart Switchable Glass Advantages

1. Privacy

The most obvious advantage of switchable glass is its ability to provide privacy on demand. Modern offices tend to follow the on-trend all-glass look, which means there’s usually little privacy when it comes to glass-fronted meeting rooms. It could be argued that frosted glass is a better permanent option to solve this issue, but for aesthetics purposes, translucent glass is great for providing a brighter, more open-plan feel to an office. With switchable glass, you get the best of both worlds. A great, sleek looking translucent design with the ability to add more privacy when needed.

Of course, the more common solution to creating privacy in offices or meeting rooms is by installing curtains or blinds. However, these elements can sometimes make a modern office look a little out-dated, with frosted glass being the more aesthetically pleasing alternative.

2. Low maintenance

Following on from the previous point about the switchable glass being a preferable alternative to other fixtures and fittings – is the advantage that it’s a far more low maintenance approach to privacy. Just like any other window, door, or partition, switchable glass is easily wiped clean and doesn’t have the risk of collecting dust like traditional office blinds would do overtime. There’s also no chance of the glass being stained and needing to be replaced if so.

3. Convenience

With the use of smart film any ordinary glass partitions, windows or doors can be converted into smart film glass, by simply applying the film carefully to the pane of glass (which we do in our purpose-built clean-room facility here at OBG). This means that in order to benefit from the features of switchable glass, there’s no need to conduct any major construction work and create a disruption in the office by installing brand new purpose-built partitions.

4. Multiple uses

It can easily be overlooked that switchable glass actually has more than one major use to it. As well as providing privacy, the product can also double up as a projection screen. Once activated, the frosted glass acts as a solid background for projecting presentations or images on to it. This proves to be a great use in meetings or presentations when a separate projection screen would otherwise be required. It eliminates the need to purchase a projection screen on its own, therefore reducing unnecessary costs and allowing presentations to be made in a sleeker, more luxurious fashion.

5. Cost-effective

Have you ever thought about how having changeable glass can actually save you money? It can be a way of blocking out direct sunlight from a room, minimizing the need to use air conditioning to keep the room temperature cool. Not only does it help to stabilize the temperature of the room this way, but by reducing the amount of sunlight entering an area for a certain period of time, there’s less risk that fabric and furniture placed near windows will fade and have to be re-upholstered or replaced.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass meeting room applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!

Smart switchable glass as known as dimming glass is used in commercial places, has a good advertising effect, adds new meaning to space, and creates visual appeal.

It is used as an exhibition window. When it is open, the smart switchable glass is adjusted to a transparent state, so that people outside can see the contents inside; when it is not open, it is adjusted to the atomization state, and the inside and outside are completely separated.

Open and intimate, the store is free to control.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass street store applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!

Switchable privacy glass – modern residential architecture has fully sided with the aesthetic of spacious, united interiors. No longer a trend, the free-flowing residential space is what buyers and renters are looking for, and architects and developers are responding by creating inventive homes with fewer walls and larger multifunctional rooms.

One of the stars of this modern movement is glass. Used as both external and interior walls, dividers, and even structural elements, glass in residential design has come a long way.

By harnessing the technology available in glass today, architects can provide the spaciousness people want with the practicality a busy home requires, especially in smaller spaces like apartments.

Specifically, switchable privacy glass technology enables contemporary design with built-in usability that can adapt spaces to users’ needs at the flick of a switch. Here are five key offerings of smart switchable glass in apartment design.

Switchable Privacy Glass Advantages

1. Wide Open Views

Traditional residential architecture can seem entirely focused on function, with windows being little more than a source of light and air. Today urban dwellings, especially taller apartment buildings, can offer spectacular views through panoramic windows and even floor-to-ceiling glass walls.

With switchable privacy glass, residents can control the glass opacity for passersby while still enjoying their breathtaking views.

2. Spacious Spaces

Today’s most sought-after apartments boast large multifunctional rooms and fluid transitions between spaces.

Smart glass helps facilitate this by enabling architects to replace certain elements that would ordinarily divide apartments or block views with glass walls, dividers, and even staircases.

A smart glass wall around a home office can maintain the sense of openness within an apartment while letting the user turn the wall opaque when needed for privacy or to minimize distraction.

A bedroom set up at one end of an apartment can appear to be part of the larger space when a smart glass wall is transparent, or become a cozy sleeping space when the wall is opaque.

Residential smart glass can help an apartment feel spacious and also let more light into areas further away from windows.

3. Privacy on Demand

Switchable privacy glass enables large windows or entire exterior walls to be transparent or opaque, based on the users’ preferences throughout the day.

A simple flick of a switch controls the opacity, without necessarily dampening the light coming into space.

When used internally as diving walls, this functionality preserves the sense of one larger, connected space while providing privacy when needed.

For example, by enclosing a bathroom in smart glass walls, as in the Brew House Hotel, space remains connected to the larger room until a guest switches the glass opacity for privacy.

4. Superior Sun Protection

Floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors are becoming more and more popular—as is sun protection and heat control, especially in countries where high temperatures are frequent and UV exposure can be an issue.

Solar smart glass offers unmatched control of solar glare and is proven to reduce the transfer of heat, which protects residents from UV exposure and can substantially reduce energy costs.

Switchable smart glass windows are a smart choice for individual apartments as well as apartment building lobbies and shared spaces because they allow users to maximize sunlight when it’s needed and control solar shading during peak sun.

4. Natural Decoration

Particularly in urban areas and apartment complexes, there is a recent focus on inviting nature into residential spaces.

Smart switchable glass can be used in strategically placed windows and glass doors to showcase natural elements and help residents connect with their surroundings.

Balcony railings—and even the balcony itself—can be made of smart glass to remove the perception of division between residents and nature. At any time, residents can choose to switch the glass opacity for privacy, protection, or comfort.

Switchable smart glass is helping innovative architects and designers transform urban apartments into residential refugees that don’t have to sacrifice views, space, or privacy.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass apartment applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!

Privacy smart glass provides efficient utilization of space for office interiors, offering instant privacy on demand at the flick of a switch. Privacy Smartglass provides simple, instantaneous, and reversible states of transparency with no alteration of light level making it an ideal solution for office interiors where ample lighting is fundamental. Research proved that the work environment is extremely important and helps to increase workers’ productivity.

Bring you an easy-control space. Improving enterprise image, security, and privacy. Creating a high elegant business atmosphere.

Privacy smart glass can create small subdivisions of office spaces delivering instant isolation to carry out important meetings and presentations, without distractions from onlookers, and co-workers eliminating the “goldfish bowl” effect.

Switchable glass offers a sleek, sophisticated interior solution eliminating the need for curtains/blinds which can look dated and unpleasant.

If you would like more information about our switchable smart glass business office applications, or to request a quotation, please head over to our Contacts Page and get in touch!