Qarnot designed the Q.rad, the first computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet.
The Q.rad is a smart and connected digital heater, fusion of an electrical heater and a high-performance computing server.
The Q.rad produces heat by computation, the electricity consumption is measured by an embedded counter and related expenses are automatically refunded to the host.
The user controls the temperature of the Q.rad with the embedded thermostat or his smartphone.
A Q.rad can heat up a 150 to 300 sq. feet room in a building meeting modern isolation standards. The Q.rad is a system with high inertia and produces a high quality “soft” heat as opposed to electrical convectors.
Since 2014, several hundreds of households are heated for free with Q.rads, computing remotely for major banks, 3D animation studios and research labs.
Q.rad relies on high-end hardware renewed every 3 to 5 years. The Q.rads’ failure rate is significantly lower than that of any standard server since they do not have mobile parts.
Moreover, the Q.ware system handles the workload redistribution in case of a Q.rad failure.
The heat generated by all the data centers in the world could already heat half of Americanhouseholds. Today, data centers consume 3% of the world’s electricity, and it doubles every 5 years.
At Qarnot, we heat people for free and ecologically with computing wasted heat. Qarnot designed the Q.rad, the first computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet.
Since 2014, more than 100 French households are heated for free with Q.rads, computing remotely for major banks, 3D animation studios and research labs. Qarnot provides cloud computing through a totally disruptive and distributed infrastructure where computing power is deployed no longer in concentrated data centers, but split throughout the city in the form of Q.rads.
Deployed in every room and embedding more than 20 sensors, the Q.rad also overcomes the main issues encountered by Smart Home and Building infrastructures: power supply, network access and onsite computing capacity.
With the Q.rad, Qarnot provides a unique user experience with machines deeply integrated in everyday life. It already implements concrete use cases like air quality and presence monitoring,
smart alarm systems, voice recognition and entertainment payloads. The Q.rad brings a unique added value to elder care facilities, hotel resorts, retail store networks, and more generally, to any Smart Home or Smart Building.
Praised by the American economist Jeremy Rifkin, Qarnot provides an alternative and disruptive solution to forthcoming challenges related to our global digital growth with radical energy savings.
Founded in 2010, based in Montrouge (South of Paris), Qarnot’s team counts 23 people.
Today, Qarnot commercializes the Q.rad to public or private companies implementing tomorrow’s buildings (social lessors, retirement homes, schools and universities, hotels, offices, industry heavyweights…). The Q.rad digital heater will be directly available to individuals by 2017.
