ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SAGE announced this week the launch of a new mobile app for electronically tintable SageGlass^®, a product of Saint-Gobain. The new app, which will debut next week at the AIA Convention 2015 in Atlanta, gives users unprecedented control for customizing and optimizing daylight for comfort inside buildings.

The new SageGlass mobile app is compatible with Apple iOS and Android devices. It allows building occupants to orchestrate customized daylighting “scenes” by controlling the SageGlass zones. The pre-established zoning can range from an entire building facade, to a single SageGlass window. The app even enables the user to control and tint specific zones within a SageGlass window using first-of-its-kind precision, flexibility and convenience.

SageGlass is electrochromic dynamic glass that tints and clears on demand or automatically to block up to 99 percent of visible light (i.e. one percent visible light transmission) without obstructing the view and connection to the outdoors. SageGlass saves energy and improves the way people experience daylight in buildings by modulating the amount of light, heat gain and glare that enters the indoor environment.

The SageGlass mobile app gives users an easy way to control the tint level of their glass from wherever they may be in a building. Setting it apart from competing technologies are its fine-grained control, manageability, and the ability to set-up predefined scenes of window tinting effects.

Users can easily control multiple settings across a building, including the level of tinting, the tinting of established areas within the building, entire sections of curtain walls or just specific windows, and even individual zones within a single pane of SageGlass.¹ They can save these customized settings as scenes which they can later activate with a single touch of their mobile device.

For example when the sun is high in the sky, users can tint a top zone of SageGlass to block glare and heat gain while leaving lower zones clear for optimal outdoor view and light. The users can now utilize this preset tint scene for optimal comfort. This ability to create scenes is also helpful for fine tuning the quality of light that enters a building, blending the right light intensity and color levels to create a more pleasant and productive environment for occupants.

Network manageability

The new SageGlass mobile app also provides building owners with the ability to manage how users interact with SageGlass to retain greater administrative control over window operation. Administrators can assign access and control rights to specific users for specific SageGlass locations to manage who and how the windows can be tinted.

“Dynamic windows like SageGlass are enabling people to actively control their environment in a building when and how they want,” said Derek Malmquist, VP marketing for SageGlass. “As windows become part of the “Internet of Things”, they are gaining intelligence and connectivity to contribute to the energy performance and daylighting strategies of smart building design. Because conditions change day-by-day, and even hour-by-hour, the new mobile app enables users to strike the right balance for delivering daylight and comfort into an occupied space without the sun’s undesirable side effects.”

Availability and requirements

The SageGlass mobile app is available immediately as a free download from the Apple App Store and Google Play store. The app is compatible with the latest generation of SageGlass, released in February 2015.

See SageGlass on display at the AIA Convention 2015, Booth #4051

About SageGlass

SageGlass^®, a product of Saint-Gobain, is advanced dynamic glass that can be electronically tinted or cleared to optimize daylight and improve the human experience in buildings. SageGlass manages the sunlight and heat that enter a building, significantly reducing energy consumption while improving people’s comfort and well-being. It can reduce a building’s cooling load by 20 percent and HVAC requirements up to 30 percent. It is a smarter, more elegant solution than conventional sun controls such as mechanical window shades, blinds and louvers. With SageGlass you can control sunlight and glare without shades or blinds while maintaining the view and connection to the outdoors. SageGlass is manufactured in Faribault, Minnesota, in the heart of “the Silicon Valley of the window industry,” and is a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, the world’s largest building materials company.

About Saint-Gobain in North America

Saint-Gobain has its North American headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. As the world leader in sustainable habitat, Saint-Gobain is committed to inventing solutions to help professionals and communities around the world build and renovate comfortable, healthy, economical and energy-efficient buildings. The company has more than 250 locations in North America and approximately 15,000 employees. In the United States and Canada, Saint-Gobain reported sales of approximately $6.2 billion in 2014.

Recognized as a 2009 and 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Saint-Gobain earned the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award, the highest level of recognition for outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through energy efficiency. For more information about Saint-Gobain in North America, visit www.saint-gobain-northamerica.com and connect with the company on Facebook and Twitter.

About Saint-Gobain

In 2015, Saint-Gobain is celebrating its 350th anniversary, 350 reasons to believe in the future. Backed by its experience and its capacity to continuously innovate, Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction market, designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance and building materials providing innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection. With 2014 sales of $54.6 billion, Saint-Gobain operates in 64 countries and has over 180,000 employees. For more information about Saint-Gobain, visit www.saint-gobain.com and the twitter account @saintgobain.

For more information about SageGlass please visit:
Website: www.sageglass.com
Blog: http://sageglass.com/blog/
Twitter: twitter.com/Sage_Glass
Facebook: Facebook.com/SageGlass
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/sage-electrochromics-inc
YouTube: Youtube.com/SAGEElectrochromics
Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/sageglassusa/

¹ Multi-zone control for single windows requires SageGlass LightZone™ glass.