Acomni, LLC, originated as an algorithm developed at the University of Arizona by Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle. While working with autonomous sensors to reconstruct river currents Dr. Sprinkle realized that river current flows analysis could be applied to HVAC flows throughout a house. After creating the algorithms, Dr. Sprinkle and his team applied for the National Science Foundation I-CORPS competition.After the 8-week development process they presented their commercial value model and was honored as the best team. Upon receiving this validation Acomni was founded and through Tech Launch Arizona, the commercialization body of the University of Arizona, received proof of concept funding to create a functional prototype.
Acomni's pilot device is the Ondo™(“Ondo”): a Wi-Fi enabled thermostat-monitoring device that gathers data about a home’s Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (“HVAC”) cycle use. Using provided utility rates and weather forecasting along with our patent pending behavioral learning algorithm; Ondo is able to learn a home’s heating/cooling requirements and provide electric utility companies with access to the largest consumption of household electricity, the HVAC system.
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Manny Teran |
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Jonathan Sprinkle |