Panasonic's senior product marketing manager for air conditioning, Joe De Bella, explains how tightly sealed homes can lead to poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ).
Many modern Australian homes are being built with sealed windows and doorways in order to limit heating or cooling loss, often resulting in too little outside air entering the home. This causes pollutants to accumulate, leading to poor IAQ.
With many of us spending a large percentage of our lives indoors, poor IAQ can lead to a number of health issues, including generally non-specific symptoms such as headaches, tiredness or lethargy, to more severe effects such as aggravation of asthma and allergic responses.
With over 50 per cent of Australian homes having someone who suffers from asthma, allergies or hay fever, Panasonic understands the need for cleaner air within the home and has developed a range of consumer air-conditioners that help to provide a cleaner, fresher and healthier living environment.
Panasonic’s consumer air-conditioning range features nanoe-G technology – an active air purifying system that not only deactivates or removes unwanted airborne particles, but also surface based particles, offering consumers the benefit of having an air conditioner and air purifier in one unit.
The advanced nanoe-G air purifying system removes 99 per cent of airborne bacteria, viruses and mould as well as deactivating 99 per cent of viruses and 99 per cent of bacteria on surfaces for a cleaner, healthier home – it even works when the air conditioning unit is not cooling or heating.
Put simply, the technology works by the air conditioning unit releasing trillions of nanoe-G fine particles which work to capture and deactivate harmful bacteria, viruses and mould in the room, bringing them back to the filter. nanoe-G will even deactivate bacteria and viruses that are trapped in the filter, so there are no concerns of bacteria and viruses breeding in the filter itself.
Exclusive to Panasonic, nanoe-G uses ‘nano technology’ fine air particles consisting of ions and radicals, not chemicals, so it can be used without any concerns by people who are sensitive to chemicals, and in children's rooms.
Panasonic invests heavily in research and development within the air conditioning category to bring the best products to market. Panasonic Air Conditioners have been rated Australia’s favourite.
They were the only AC brand to receive a five star rating across the board from Australian consumers, topping the ratings table to claim the Most Satisfied Customers spot for 2016’s Canstar Blue award.
To find out more about Panasonic’s Air Conditioning range, visit www.panasonic.com.au