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Kontrol chosen by municipal user for net zero emissions building design

June 9, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Kontrol Technologies Corp, a provider of smart buildings and cities has been selected by a municipal customer for net zero emissions building design and has received its second USA patent for system and method for detecting airborne pathogens.

“We are pleased to continue to grow our net zero emission business with a new Municipal opportunity,” says Paul Ghezzi, CEO of Kontrol Technologies. “We continue to win new customers who are focused on the transition to electrification and lowering building emissions. In addition to growing our operating business we continue to add to our expanding intellectual property with our second USA patent for airborne pathogen monitoring.”

The Company has been awarded USA Patent No. 11,662,278. The Patent covers an air sampling system which includes an air inflow channel having an air inlet portion at a top end; the air inflow channel being oriented substantially vertically; a fan configured to cause air in a sampling environment to flow into the air inflow channel via the inlet portion; a cooling unit for cooling air in the air inflow channel, the cooling unit disposed downstream of the inlet portion; a collection chamber for collecting liquid water condensed from air in the air inflow channel; the collection chamber being fluidly connected to the air inflow channel; and a sensing unit for determining a volume of liquid in the collection chamber, wherein the cooling unit is controlled in response to signals generated by the sensing unit.

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