International. With a "humid subtropical" climate, Tokyo experiences extremely hot summers with temperatures reaching over 35 degrees in July and August. Such high temperatures can cause many people to suffer and even die from heat stroke.
Therefore, Panasonic Corporation has announced that it will create Cool Spots in the city of Tokyo, which will contribute to the creation of a comfortable and active city in the summer of 2020. Green air conditioner is an air-cooling mist solution that sprays a fine, silky mist, cooling the air with negligible residue.
Protecting potential victims of Tokyo's summer heat
Between May and September 2018, in Japan, nearly 100,000 people required ambulance assistance for such a health threat according to the announcement made by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency on October 25, 2018.
In response to this temperature challenge, Panasonic offers Air Cooling Mist solutions that are suitable for outdoor installation, such as at bus stops, sidewalks and entrances to venues.
The solution includes a rotating air curtain blower that uses a rotating airflow. This creates a dome-shaped cooling space with a diameter of 2 meters, which can easily keep up to five people cool at any one time.
In the 2 m diameter cooling area created by the solution, the temperature can be reduced by 4 degrees, causing users to experience a perceived decrease of about 7 degrees in body temperature.
The Green Air Conditoner is also equipped with a remote monitoring and control system that can automatically control the spray according to local weather forecast data. This allows the solution to alter the spray flow rate according to the air temperature and automatically stop on rainy days and cold days.
Air Cooling Mist units have already been installed at Odaiba Rainbow Park, a popular tourist spot overlooking the Rainbow Bridge and the sandy beach facing Tokyo Bay, since July 2019.
Coming soon: an ultra-thin fog that is dry
Panasonic presents a new model, Green Air Conditioner Flex from September 2019. Emitting an ultra-thin dry mist, it can be easily connected to wall or pipe tent structures that have a power source.
The Panasonic Green Air Conditioner Flex sprays an incomparably fine mist that evaporates quickly, and is so fine that it barely feels damp and does not moisten items such as newspapers or glasses, even from a close distance of 0.6 meters. The mist is sprayed by Panasonic's unique two-fluid nozzle, and consists of water mist droplets up to 6 micrometers, less than the thickest.
The solution is now under field test at several metropolitan locations in Tokyo, including downtown Tokyo Hibiya, and outside Tokyo, such as Shin-Yokohama Station in Yokohama-shi and Kobe City.
It was also installed at the entrance of the beach volleyball tournament in July to provide a cool space for all athletes, spectators and visitors to the park when they entered Tokyo Park with great success.
