LEXINGTON, Ky. — Big Ass Fans and Lexmark have partnered to deliver full-facility comfort for industrial and manufacturing workers with Big Ass Fans’ CommandSense, an automated comfort ecosystem designed to reduce heat stress while improving worker safety and lowering energy costs for industrial facilities.
Powered by Lexmark and Microsoft technology, CommandSense merges Lexmark brains with Big Ass brawn. CommandSense continuously monitors occupancy, humidity, temperature, and other facility conditions to automatically adjust fans, heaters, and ventilation fans for unparalleled comfort control.
For 25 years, Big Ass Fans has led the industrial comfort industry with premium, innovative products that provide best-in-class comfort in complex environments. Following the hottest summer ever recorded, CommandSense presents a never-before-seen solution for industrial facilities to manage rising temperatures and help meet evolving state requirements for worker safety — all while addressing concerns around cost, infrastructure, and sustainability.
“At Big Ass Fans, our goal is to provide comfort without compromise,” said Ken Walma, president and CEO of Big Ass Fans. “CommandSense represents a new era for this mission. We’re proud to bring this automatic comfort and cooling solution to frontline associates and take worker safety to the next level.”
“Innovation is so exciting to watch,” said Demetrios Karathanasis, IoT portfolio director for Lexmark. “The Lexmark team is thrilled to provide the foundational technology that has allowed Big Ass Fans to make the leap from manufacturing exceptional products to offering comfort without compromise through CommandSense.”
Each CommandSense system is uniquely designed for its facility, providing customized comfort control for small- to medium-sized manufacturing operations and untapped potential for even larger facilities. Using a proprietary solution composed of edge computing, an internet-of-thing (IoT) platform, environmental sensors, device protocol translation and other technology, CommandSense delivers comfort. In addition to providing unmatched cooling and efficiency, CommandSense also:
- Improves employee morale and productivity by mitigating heat stress by up to 60% and boosting employee productivity by up to 50% when paired with Big Ass fans and heaters.
- Provides robust monitoring and automatic alerts when system components encounter functional errors.
- Uses one fourth the energy of HVAC and at a fraction of the cost, producing savings up to $1 million over five years.
CommandSense will be available in April 2025. To learn more and to preview the product, please visit bigassfans.com/commandsense.
Bringing industry-leading airflow and energy savings to customers worldwide, Big Ass Fans is guided by the high-volume, low-speed (HVLS) airflow concept to make spaces more comfortable and efficient.
Lexmark creates cloud-enabled imaging and IoT technologies that help customers worldwide accelerate business transformation, turn information into insights, data into decisions, and analytics into action.
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