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Smart Privacy Glass Technologies

This introductory HSW course explores smart privacy glass and how it can support safer, healthier, and more functional spaces. Participants will compare privacy and solar-control technologies, including how they perform, switch, and respond to power loss. The course also looks at common applications and covers key considerations for selecting, specifying, and coordinating smart glass systems.

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Smart Privacy Glass Technologies
1 LU Credit
On-Demand Video Format
56 min Duration
28 Sep 2026 Released

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain why visual privacy is a health, safety, and welfare consideration affecting dignity, stress, focus, comfort, and safety perception.

  2. Distinguish privacy-first technologies (PDLC, PNLC, PSCT) from solar-control technologies (SPD, electrochromic, thermochromic).

  3. Evaluate power-loss behavior as a life-safety and dignity decision in privacy-critical spaces such as healthcare observation openings.

  4. Specify a written sequence of operations covering normal control logic, overrides, power loss, maintenance mode, and restart behavior.

Course Curriculum

9 MODULES · 56 min
Module 01 Introduction and Learning Objectives 4:46
Module 02 Privacy Basics and Traditional Treatments 5:47
Module 03 Smart Glass Technology Overview 8:05
Module 04 Liquid Crystal Privacy Modes 7:40
Module 05 Tinting and Passive Technologies 5:30
Module 06 Health, Safety, and Wellness Applications 11:20
Module 07 Specification, Controls, and Installation 7:20
Module 08 Case Studies and Key Takeaways 3:20
Module 09 Featured Product and Closing 1:17

Course Instructor

John Glynn

John Glynn

Director of Technology Marketing

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Smart Privacy Glass Technologies

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