02 — HVAC
Energy share & install cost
Climate control is typically 30–40% of an industrial building’s energy. Evaporative cooling for large IT warehouses runs 80–150 €/m².
Robur · AquarialEvery number has a citation.
The calculator’s constants are hardcoded and deterministic - no figure is generated at runtime. Below is where each one comes from. If a more authoritative source replaces one, it changes here first, then in the code.
01 — Why the human constraint exists
The regulation that makes climate control mandatory.
Italian workplace-safety law (D.Lgs. 81/08, Allegato IV, 1.9) requires the temperature of work premises to suit the human body during working hours. In a certified robot-only environment with no continuous human presence, that specific obligation does not apply - leaving only occasional-maintenance safety, a different problem.
03 — Ventilation
ASHRAE 62.1 Rp / Ra
Air demand splits into a per-person part (Rp) that vanishes without occupants and a per-area part (Ra) tied to process that always stays.
ASHRAE 62.1-202204 — Lighting
Lighting Power Density
LPD from ASHRAE 90.1-2019 (Warehouse 0.45 W/ft² ≈ 4.8 W/m²; Manufacturing 0.82 W/ft² ≈ 8.8 W/m²). Robot sensors often need no ambient visible light at all.
ASHRAE 90.1-2019 Table 9.5.105 — The residual constraint
Battery & electronics bands
Li-ion optimal 15–35 °C; standard PLCs 0–55 °C. Human comfort (ASHRAE 55) sits in a narrow 20–26 °C, that is the band that disappears.
Ufine · Maple Systems06 — Construction
Build cost per m²
EU industrial shell: prefab 200–500 €/m²; quality custom 500–850 €/m², depending on materials and complexity.
Engind (EU)
Honesty note
What this tool is not.
It is a visibility/marketing configurator for order-of-magnitude estimates, not consultancy accurate to the cent. FANUC is cited as proof the concept is buildable - the configurator’s numbers come from the generic sources above, not from FANUC. Targeted conditioning of cabinets and battery packs is always kept in the calculation and never zeroed out.