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The company was founded by Dr. Jacob Y. Wong in October of 2002, about the time when the non-competitive clause binding his after-sale involvement in infrared gas sensor development with the purchaser of Telaire Systems, Inc., the former company he founded in 1989, expired. Dr. Wong is well known in the invention of the so-called "waveguide" gas sample chamber through which long-awaited compact, rugged, low-cost and reliable infrared gas sensors of all types are realized today. For that accomplishment he was presented the prestigious Photonics Circle of Excellence Award in 1993.

The main reasons why Dr. Wong had to emerge for the third time to start another infrared sensor company are as follows.  The first one can be attributed to the luring of vast opportunities still available to date.  The second one has to do with his obligatory effort to extract the last ounce of capability from this potent technology as applied to the realization of infrared gas sensors hitherto unattainable.  The third and last one is his vision to metamorphose this technology so that it can take advantage of the rapidly evolving Internet technology in order to exploit the full potential of same.

The vast but as yet untapped marketing opportunities lie in two areas.  The first is the global application of Demand Control Ventilation (DCV) strategy to literally millions of new and retrofit buildings in order to save significant amount of energy (~8 - 18%) used in ventilation.  In order to open up the new buildings market, extremely low-cost yet reliable CO₂ controllers have to be developed and made available immediately to the building construction and HVAC industries. "CapnoTherm™ " (combined CO₂ and temperature controllers), available at the today's cost of thermostats alone and replacing them on a one-to-one basis, will help pave the way to the application of DCV strategy in future new buildings.  For the retrofit buildings, wireless CO₂ controllers together with wireless "Repeater" and "Gateway" for transmitting the CO₂ information at various locations or sites to the central Building Automation System (BAS) have to be developed without delay in order to significantly reduce the cost, the schedule to complete, and the disruption of on-going business operations when wireless DCV systems are installed.

In order to educate the general public about the important role played by CO₂ gas in building ventilation, a low-cost executive gift-priced (<$50) personal handheld CO₂ monitor will be made available.  Such an item can further make the public aware of the importance of adequate ventilation to good indoor air quality in places where they work, live and play.

The second untapped marketing opportunity is the incorporation of an extremely low-cost, reliable, and precursory-activated ultra-low power CO₂ sensor into today's smoke detectors in order to make them even more false-alarm proof and faster fire sensors in people's homes and workplaces.

It has been known for some time in the gas detector industry that one of the major drawbacks for infrared gas sensors has been their poor performance in the measurement of gas species having only very weak infrared absorption bands or in situations when extremely low concentrations of the gas need to be detected.  In order to meet the aforementioned challenge to extract the last ounce of capability from the infrared gas sensing technology, Airware has developed or is in the process of developing low-cost and hitherto unattainable gas sensors by utilizing the most advanced infrared and wireless technologies.  To be able to detect those gas species that have extremely weak absorption signatures in the infrared, Airware has invented the latest "Reverberant Sample Chamber" in order to provide long path-lengths within only a very compact space for the successful detection of these gases down to PPB levels.

Finally foreseeing the importance of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in crowded cities throughout the world, particularly in the Pacific Rim countries, and to take advantage of the rapidly evolving Internet technology, Airware has partnered with Impact Facilities Solutions, Inc. and Impact Software Inc. for developing the so-called IAQ Certification Enterprise Software (ICES).  This Web-based enterprise software, working hand in hand with Airware's developed wireless IAQ monitoring equipment, facilitates the monitoring, recording, reporting and voluntary or mandatory compliance of certified IAQ levels at various sites of companies participating in any IAQ Certification Scheme or Program.

Airware, Inc.

5973 Encina Rd., Suite 109

Goleta, CA 93117

TEL: (805) 683-1117

FAX: (805) 683-9277

Email: sales@airware-inc.com