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Smart Spray Foam Depth Sensor
SPF (spray polyurethane foam) insulation applied in a commercial or residential building is an amazing but costly construction product. One reason is that application of SPF insulation requires large investment capital equipment and a specialized crew for each job. The work is further made difficult because determination of the performance and quality characteristics of the performed work is subjective and still dependent on only primitive tools for normal routine examination. We worked to solve this problem by designing, building, and testing a portable measurement and evaluation system capable of reading any, and all SPF substrates with reliable accuracy and repeatability. With this tool, the applicator or inspector can now efficiently and accurately determine the performance and quality characteristics of the spray foam job and make smart strategic decisions on-demand. Using our system, the average applicator can improve his productivity by 15% per job, can reduce his chemical consumption by 10% per job and the improve overall quality metric of the job. Using our system, the average inspector can reduce the inspection time by 80% per job and can increase the accuracy of his inspection by 20% per job.
Smart Spray Foam Depth Sensor
SPF (spray polyurethane foam) insulation applied in a commercial or residential building is an amazing but costly construction product. One reason is that application of SPF insulation requires large investment capital equipment and a specialized crew for each job. The work is further made difficult because determination of the performance and quality characteristics of the performed work is subjective and still dependent on only primitive tools for normal routine examination. We worked to solve this problem by designing, building, and testing a portable measurement and evaluation system capable of reading any, and all SPF substrates with reliable accuracy and repeatability. With this tool, the applicator or inspector can now efficiently and accurately determine the performance and quality characteristics of the spray foam job and make smart strategic decisions on-demand. Using our system, the average applicator can improve his productivity by 15% per job, can reduce his chemical consumption by 10% per job and the improve overall quality metric of the job. Using our system, the average inspector can reduce the inspection time by 80% per job and can increase the accuracy of his inspection by 20% per job.
Smart Spray Foam Depth Sensor
DORNEANU DANIEL DUMITRU (author)
2021-05-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
| British Library Online Contents | 2009