The home has always been the center of family life, but increasingly it is becoming a place for entertainment, recreation, work, and even healthcare. With so much now going on in any household, consumers are demanding new products that meet ever-rising standards for quality, style, performance, and energy efficiency.
The TIAX Supportive Home™ development environment offers companies a compelling way to leverage technology to gain competitive advantage in this demanding market. Through the Supportive Home Development Environment, TIAX can help clients design, test, and develop new products and services for residential use. We combine specialized development laboratories and proprietary tools and models with a deep understanding of key markets, drivers, and trends—accumulated over decades spent working with industry and key government agencies.
Specific Supportive Home services include:
- Development of new residential appliances and products that meet growing market demands for higher performance, enhanced ease-of-use, lower manufacturing cost and improved energy efficiency.
- Testing and analysis of residential appliances and products to improve performance, safety, manufacturing cost and energy usage.
- Identification and integration of new technologies into existing and next generation products.
- Development of prototype implementations of new technologies or product enhancements.
- Testing and claims substations to assist in preparation of promotional and merchandising materials for residential products and services.
The TIAX Supportive Home Development Environment has been developed to help companies in the following industries:
- Residential Appliances
- HVAC & Refrigeration
- Consumer Electronics
- Residential Power & Energy Systems
- Home Medical Devices
- Sensor & Control Systems

