Dial is Quilt’s compact, yet full-featured smart thermostat designed to provide quick and accurate room-by-room temperature control. With a light-level dimmable OLED display and minimalist design that can be either wall-mounted with in-wall wiring or used on tabletop with a wall outlet, the thermostat is designed to fit unobtrusively into any room of the house. The system includes a high-accuracy temperature sensor discretely hidden in the angled base to provide temperature control feedback to the Quilt heat pumps via tri-band wireless and puts control of the room (or entire house) at the user’s fingertips with the high-resolution, touchscreen display and haptic-feedback rotary ring.

As the product development lead for Quilt and lead mechanical engineer on the product, I was responsible for the design and development of the entire mechanical architecture (~50 components) from initial concept through to manufacturing and validation testing. After working through concept development and initial prototypes, I developed and delivered a production-intent architecture and full-featured P1 (alpha) prototypes in just 5 months, which allowed for an early technical and user validation. In the following 6 months, I refined the design through two more proto builds that flushed out a fully-detailed, manufacturable design and onboarded a JDM partner for a mid-sized EVT build that enabled validation testing, reliability testing, and an user-facing pilot program. Finally, I lead the program deliberately through a large-scale DVT build and full-suite of testing, to meet an aggressive go-to-market timeline running a production PVT build under a year and a half after program commencement and a high-volume MP build in the subsequent months.