BioShade Overview

BioShade is focused on solving the problem of urban heat islands by mapping where biological shade is most needed in a city and then offering a smart, fast-growing, modular hydroponic system integrated with urban-customized shade plants.

BioShade offers an autonomous and ecological shading system integrated with AI, IoT, and hydroponic technologies. The system is customized to support high-leaf-area plants that can evaporate large amounts of water to create sustainable biological shading areas that perform both carbon capture and air quality improvement.

The company's systems are designed to create a significantly cooler microclimate around them in order to reduce the heat, energy consumption, and air-conditioning expenses in buildings and urban spaces. BioShade's biological shading technology provides shading, cooling, and improved air quality and is fully optimized, automated, and scalable for deployment in cities worldwide.

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The increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide have meant that the global average temperature has been rising at a rate of 1.7°C per century since 1970. BioShade's biological shading technology helps to solve the problem of urban heat islands that has deteriorated due to climate change, and both avoids further CO2 emissions and absorbs CO2 from the air through the use of plants on its biological shades. The shaded microclimate created by BioShade's systems, which results in an average decrease of about 10 °C in physiological heat stress, also ensures a reduction in energy consumption of up to 27% due to the decreased need for a building's air cooling systems.