Haiku ceiling fan includes Wi-Fi connectivity and sensors that enable it to regulate temperature and kick into action when someone enters the room. With either aluminum, Moso bamboo or matrix composite airfoils, Haiku uses a built-in Wi-Fi module, infrared motion, ambient temperature and humidity sensors to help maintain the user’s ideal room temperature. This means it can start up or wind down as you enter or leave a room, speed up as more people enter the room and the temperature and humidity rises, then slow down as the temperature drops overnight.
Haiku is controlled via a companion smartphone app for iOS devices, which features a number of preset modes. Whoosh Mode replicates a breeze that the company says makes you feel up to 40 percent cooler, Sleep Mode gradually lowers the fan speed as you doze off, and Alarm mode can be customized to wake you up with a combination of air, light and sound. The fan’s speed settings can also be changed manually via a remote control, but the company claims that over time, the SenseME system is able to learn from a user’s comfort preferences and then better tailor its automatic speed adjustments to suit.
Like many conventional ceiling fans, Haiku also doubles as a lighting solution, with 39 high-efficiency LEDs integrated into the underside of the device, which can be dimmed to 16 different levels of brightness. It is available in 52 in (1.32 m) and 60 in (1.52 m) diameter versions, with color options including caramel and cocoa finished airfoils, and black or white colored aluminum mounts. Haiku fans are the most energy efficient ceiling fans in the country, according to Energy Star. The fan is equipped with an infrared motion sensor, so it knows when the room is occupied. It has temperature and humidity sensors, so it knows what the environmental situation of the room is and what it needs to do to make the room feel cooler to any occupants.
A smart mode on the fan, adjustable from the companion iOS app, automatically adjusts the fan speed based on room temperature. For example, it can slow the fan down as your room cools down at night, then speed it up again during the day. It also talks to the Nest thermostat, speeding up the fan to keep a room feeling a certain temperature rather than turning on the air conditioning. The fan can also turn itself on and off based on room occupancy. When no one is in the room, there’s no reason for a ceiling fan to be moving thus, when the motion sensor notices that no one has been in the room for a while, it can turn the fan off. Then, when someone returns, it spins back up to reduce the effective temperature. Scheduled events can be set to turn the fan, light, motion sensor, smart mode, or other settings on or off automatically based on time of day and day of the week. You can also set to turn on the fan or light to use them as an alarm in the morning.
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