No. 348: A new air-conditioner allows you to feel warmer by five degrees centigrade than the setup temperature (November 11, 2011)

You can increase your sensible temperature by five degrees centigrade if you replace your air-conditioner with a new model from Daikin Industries. Besides increasing humidity, the new air-conditioner warms the place where you stand in a focused way with the help of the build-in sensor. An energy-saving model, it needs 30% less power than the existing models of this company. It will be added to the high-end models as a new product.

In the heating mode, the new model humidifies the room and detects the place where you stand using the sensor to warm it intensively. This function enables your sensible temperature to be 25 degrees centigrade even though the setup temperature is 20 degrees centigrade demanded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as an energy saving measure for this winter. In the cooling mode, the new model allows you to have a sensible temperature three degrees centigrade below the setup temperature at the maximum. It will be put on the market in February 2012, and the model with an output of 2.8 kW will be priced at about 240,000 yen a unit.