At CES 2025, Panasonic unveiled an innovative new energy-efficient approach to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) that uses significantly less energy than conventional technologies.
Building upon its rich history and the founder’s guiding vision of making today better than yesterday, and tomorrow better than today, the OASYS solution brings together two areas of focus: sustainable technology and the well-being of society.
Introducing OASYS
OASYS is a holistic home comfort solution created for modern, high-performance homes.
As home building design has advanced with new materials and construction techniques, the standard approaches to conditioning and treating indoor air left room for innovation.
Energy efficiency and cost-saving
This new approach to HVAC supports the comfort and well-being of families in their home environment
OASYS combines a suite of Panasonic technologies into a complete, proprietary solution to leap forward for one of the home’s most important systems.
Offering cleaner, fresher air; balanced humidity; and consistent temperature control across the house, this new approach to HVAC supports the comfort and well-being of families in their home environment with greater energy efficiency and cost-saving advantages compared to traditional systems.
Holistic air quality management solution
“OASYS is more than an HVAC system. It’s a holistic air quality management solution to support your family’s comfort and peace of mind by delivering cleaner air and consistent temperatures throughout the whole house,” said Naoki Kamo, President of Panasonic Eco Systems of North America.
Naoki Kamo adds, “Our homes are where our families flourish, and OASYS builds on Panasonic’s rich, 100-year history of inventing technologies to support the well-being and sustainability of people and society.”
Superior performance and comfort
Improving ventilation with outdoor air is one of the fundamental strategies for lowering concentrations
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Americans spend on average about 90% of their time indoors where the concentration of some pollutants is often two to five times higher than typical outdoor air.
Improving ventilation with outdoor air is one of the fundamental strategies for lowering concentrations of indoor air pollutants – but most home heating and cooling systems do not mechanically bring fresh air into the house.
Clean indoor environment
OASYS starts with ventilation: the system takes in fresh outdoor air, filters it, and tempers it to the homeowner’s temperature setting. It then circulates air constantly throughout the entire house for approximately four air changes per hour while continuously monitoring the air for comfort.
The result is a more comfortable, cleaner indoor environment for the family, designed with their wellness in mind. It goes beyond what homeowners can expect from conventional systems today with:
- Consistent Temperature Control: Maintains consistent temperature and airflow from room to room in the home, eliminating hot spots and cold corners.
- Balanced Air Circulation and Filtration: Provides constant, ongoing ventilation and filtration of home air to help protect from allergens and pollutants while deodorizing the air to reduce odors.
- Humidity Control: Delivers ongoing humidity control throughout the whole house with constant air movement and ventilation to help prevent excess moisture and mold.
- Easy maintenance: Requires minimal regular maintenance of a simple-to-clean air filter with no annual system maintenance necessary, and each component of the solution can be repaired or replaced individually.
- Quiet Operation: Runs with whisper-quiet operation, with minimal fan noise to promote more comfort for families.
These features work together to improve the quality of the air inside the home, supporting the longevity of the home by helping protect against mold and excess humidity that can cause decay.
Improved efficiency and economics
OASYS can reduce energy consumption for heating and air conditioning by up to 53% compared to traditional HVAC
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the HVAC system demands more energy on average than any other system in a home through its energy consumption in space heating and air conditioning.
OASYS can reduce energy consumption for heating and air conditioning by up to 53% compared to traditional HVAC systems, making it an ideal solution for those looking to reduce their home’s energy usage and lower monthly energy bills.
Cost-efficient solar systems
The improved efficiency offered by OASYS makes it easier and more affordable to leverage renewable energy to power the home, such as residential solar and battery storage.
Decreasing the energy needs of a home’s most demanding system means that smaller and more cost-efficient solar systems can be used to power the home, expanding solar power as an option for more houses. When powered by solar panels and battery storage, homes are better able to withstand power outages, making them more resilient to weather disturbances caused by climate impacts.
Accessible zero-energy home
OASYS delivers these performance and efficiency gains with a similar installation cost to existing technologies in high-performance homes.
Achieving this dramatic reduction in HVAC power demand is a critical step towards achieving a more affordable and accessible zero-energy home.