Claire Harper Claire Harper | May 14, 2021 | Lifestyle,
Striking views seen from the dining room in Dvele’s Sedgemoore home in Santa Rosa PHOTO COURTESY OF DVELE
The future of smart homes has arrived. Meet Dvele, a San Diego-based housing technology company that’s building homes equipped with artificial intelligence from the ground up through its newest innovation, DveleIQ. Soft ware defined with the ability to improve the health of its residents, these thermally efficient properties are good for the planet and entirely powered by renewable sources. We tapped President Matt Howland for more. dvele.com
Tell us about the inception of DveleIQ. When we evaluated the market, looking for a smart home partner, nothing aligned with our core tenets of occupant and planet health, so we decided to move the industry forward and build the first 100% integrated, intelligent, soft ware-defined home, complementing our self-powered home product. Through soft ware and embedded intelligence we call DveleIQ, not only can we deliver healthier homes today, but the product will continue to evolve and improve tomorrow.
Dvele’s Skyview home in Ventura PHOTO COURTESY OF DVELE
What are some of the innovative ways DveleIQ promotes a healthy and sustainable lifestyle? To create a home that is good for the planet, one must first create an energy-efficient home, which largely means a thermally efficient home. Every Dvele factory-built home has an innovative build envelope that allows us to meet passive housing standards, meaning we can power the entire home from renewable resources. Dvele’s self-powered homes are fully electric and solar powered with a battery backup, making the home resilient against an oft en failing power grid.
You mention that the homes will learn and improve over time. What will that look like? Once we understand the state of the home, the home’s DveleIQ soft ware platform can automate control and make adjustments to create the healthiest, most efficient home possible. For instance, if someone typically takes a morning shower at 6:30, the home’s AI system will learn that and start heating the water a few minutes earlier. Aside from the convenience of having hot water instantly, that also conserves water since no water is running while waiting for it to heat up.
A look at the modern interior of Sedgemoore. PHOTO COURTESY OF DVELE
Tell us the ‘why’ behind your software-defined homes. After spending years in software, I came to construction and was blown away by the lack of data post-occupancy. Cars have had a multitude of sensors since the 1970s, but most homes just had a thermostat and a couple of smoke detectors. As the old adage goes, ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.’ It’s no wonder there has been little progress and innovation in home construction. DveleIQ is our answer to this problem.
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