Edison Award recognizes Emerson’s innovative technology to protect HVAC systems and further digital transformation in homes

Emerson (NYSE: EMR), a leading provider of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technologies, today announced that its Sensi Predict intelligent HVAC solution has received the Silver Edison Award in the Innovative Services – AI Applications category, providing peace of mind that it brings to consumers.

The award recognizes Emerson’s Sensi Predict as a 21st century home heating, ventilation and air conditioning maintenance solution that shares real-time system insights to help homeowners monitor performance and prevent unexpected problems. The Edison Awards, named after inventor Thomas Alva Edison, recognize and honor the world’s best innovations that are at the forefront of new product and service development, marketing and human-centered design.

Emerson’s Sensi Predict uses 10 sensors to analyze the performance of heating and cooling systems, one of the most expensive assets in a home. Sensi Predict technology provides real-time monitoring and alerts homeowners and their contractors when their HVAC systems are not operating at full efficiency. Conveniently accessed via a smartphone, these alerts can help predict and prevent problems and, along with corrective maintenance, reduce operating costs and extend the life of HVAC systems.

“Our heating and cooling systems are critical to the health and comfort of our families and the environment, but we have so little insight into their day-to-day performance,” said Jamie Froedge, executive president of Emerson’s Commercial & Residential Solutions business. “We are honored to be recognized for this innovative technology that provides both awareness and peace of mind when it comes to an integral part of our home.”

Fault detection and diagnosis are new standards in HVAC technology, and Emerson, with Sensi Predict, has taken responsibility for bringing this innovation to the housing market. Both homeowners and contractors can take advantage of the technology, which provides a seamless and simple user experience. For home builders, Sensi Predict is quick and affordable to help differentiate their value proposition and service offering to homeowners, and provides enhanced credibility to stand out and build trust.

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The Edison Awards highlight high-level new product innovation, service development, and human-centered design. The finalists for the Edison Awards were selected as the “best of the best” by 3,000 of the world’s top business executives, academics and innovation professionals.

“We were very impressed with the level of collaboration and discovery in this year’s entries,” said Frank Bonafilia, Executive Director of Edison Universe. “Somehow, despite the unprecedented challenges of this global pandemic, companies around the world have figured out how to work safely and intelligently while still innovating at an award-winning level.”

For more information on Emerson’s Sensi Predict intelligent HVAC system, visit Sensi.Emerson.com.

About Emerson

Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a global technology and engineering company that provides innovative solutions to customers in the industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our Automation Solutions division helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers to maximize production, protect personnel and the environment, while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Commercial & Residential Solutions division helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, promote energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. Visit Emerson.com for more information.

About the Edison Awards

Established in 1987, the Edison Awards are the world’s most revered innovation award, dedicated to recognizing and honoring the best innovations and innovators since 1987. For more information on the overall Edison Awards program and a list of previous winners, please visit www.edisonawards.com.

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Edison, of Southern California, said his equipment may have sparked rapid wildfire, forcing evacuation orders for around 100,000 people and seriously injuring two firefighters on Monday as high winds across the state resulted in power cuts being reduced to hundreds of thousands around such a possibility to prevent .

A smoky fire exploded over 29 square kilometers after it broke out at dawn in Orange County, south of Los Angeles. Gusts pushed flames along the ridges of the bush in Silverado Canyon and near homes in the sprawling city of Irvine, home to around 280,000 people. There was no containment.

Two firefighters, one 26 and the other 31 years old, were seriously injured while fighting the fire, according to the district fire department, which did not provide details of the occurrence of the injuries. They suffered second and third degree burns on large parts of their bodies and were intubated in a hospital, officials said.

In a report to the State Public Utilities Commission, Edison of southern California said she was investigating whether her electrical equipment caused the fire. The brief report states that a “lashing wire” connecting a telecommunications line to a support cable may have struck a 12,000-volt power line across it, and an investigation was ongoing.

The report came when SCE shut down around 38,000 households and businesses in five counties – including the fire areas – as a security measure against gusts that knocked down equipment or threw branches or other vegetation into power lines. However, the utility had reduced this to below 16,500 as the winds temporarily eased on Monday evening.

More than 90,000 people in the fire area were under evacuation orders. Nearby, a fire in the Yorba Linda area had grown to nearly 12.2 square kilometers and triggered the evacuation of at least 10,000 people.

During the fire in the Irvine area, Kelsey Brewer and her three roommates decided to leave their townhouse before the evacuation order was received. The question was where to go in the pandemic. They opted for the house of her friend’s mother, who has plenty of space and lives alone.

“We literally talked about it this morning,” Brewer said, adding that she is fortunate to have a safe place. “We can only imagine how crazy everyone else feels. You can’t feel safe anywhere. “

Helicopters that dropped water and fire retardants were grounded for most of the afternoon because high winds made flying unsafe. However, a large air tanker and other planes began to fall again a few hours before sunset.

In the northern part of the state, Pacific Gas & Electric began re-energizing some of the 350,000 customers – an estimated 1 million people – in 34 counties that were left behind on Dark Sunday due to some of the fiercest winds of the fire season.

PG&E said electricity was restored to nearly 100,000 customers as the winds subsided in some areas and electricity returned to the other homes and buildings by Tuesday evening after crews conducted air and ground inspections to make repairs and ensure safety.

A dozen damage reports have been received, said PG & E.

In many parts of PG & E’s huge service area, however, the fire hazard was far from over.

“We’re already seeing the winds picking up again,” said Scott Strenfel, head of meteorology at PG&E, in some regions with bone-dry humidity that created extreme fire hazards Monday night.

Winds were expected to calm down on Monday evening before renewing on Tuesday, the National Meteorological Service warned. Officials extended a red flag extreme fire hazard warning to the region’s eastern and northern mountain areas until 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.

The safety shutdowns likely prevented dangerous fires last night. It is almost impossible to imagine that winds of this magnitude have not started major fires in the past few years, ”Daniel Swain, climate researcher at UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said on Twitter.

A second round of gusts is expected to sweep through the same areas on Monday evening.

Scientists have said that climate change has made California much drier, which means trees and other plants are more flammable. October and November are traditionally the worst months for fires, but as of this year 8,600 forest fires in the state scorched a record 16,600 square kilometers and destroyed approximately 9,200 homes, businesses, and other buildings. There were 31 deaths.

The blackouts marked the fifth time this year that Pacific Gas & Electric, the country’s largest utility, turned off electricity for customers to reduce the risk of blackouts or contaminated power lines or other equipment that flames in bone-dry weather and gusty conditions could ignite winds.

Conditions could match those of devastating fires in California’s wine country in 2017 and last year’s Kincade Fire, which devastated Sonoma County north of San Francisco last October, the National Weather Service said. Firefighters said PG&E transmission lines started this fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes and caused nearly 100,000 people to flee.

Many of the devastating fires this year were triggered by thousands of dry lightning strikes, but some are still being investigated for possible electrical causes. While the largest California fires have been completely or significantly contained, more than 5,000 firefighters remain exposed to 20 flames, according to state firefighters.

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