"Snug":
"Comfortably sheltered; cozy":
a snug apartment."Offering freedom from financial worry":
a snug living.
In Dutch, "Snugger" means:
"Smart, clever":
Hij gebruikt zijn verwarming veel snuggerder.
Pleased to meet you!
4INCH (the abbreviation for ‘FOR INtelligent CHange’) is a Belgian company that believes new technologies are not just for gadgets or luxury products, but can also make everyone's daily life more enjoyable, while having a positive impact on the environment and contributing to the ecological transition.
The two founders have been friends since childhood and have extensive knowledge of electronics and information and communication technologies.
In 2012, they joined NEST'up, a start-up accelerator at Techstars in Belgium. A few months later, after an initial round of fundraising, the company became a member of WSL (since renamed Ignity), an engineering science incubator.
The Snugr heating management and optimisation solution, developed by 4INCH, is used by people who want to increase their comfort while reducing their energy consumption. It allows building managers to set the temperature and heating schedules for each room separately, and can be managed remotely from a computer, tablet or smartphone.
Snugr Easypelt valves use the Seebeck effect (the reverse of the Peltier effect) to generate the energy needed to remotely control radiators, reducing the need for wiring or batteries. This makes Snugr the ideal solution for energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings.
Since then, at the request of several towns and local authorities, 4INCH has also developed a ‘Smart Metering’ and ‘Energy Accounting’ solution that enables the monitoring of water, gas, heating oil and electricity consumption. This solution is fully integrated with the Snugr platform.
Since 2020, Snugr has received the ‘Solar Impulse Efficient Solution’ label several times and has joined the Solar Impulse Foundation's #beyound1000solutions challenge, which aims to select solutions that meet high standards of cost-effectiveness and sustainability and then present them to decision-makers in order to accelerate their implementation.
To receive this label, the Snugr solution was thoroughly evaluated by a group of independent experts according to five criteria covering the three main themes of feasibility, environment and profitability. All labelled solutions are part of the #beyound1000solutions portfolio presented to decision-makers in the business and government worlds by Bertrand Piccard, President of the Solar Impulse Foundation. The aim is to encourage the adoption of more ambitious environmental goals and accelerate the implementation of these solutions on a large scale.