For most of us, office cooling and heating systems are like wallpaper: you only really notice them if they catch fire.
For most of us, office cooling and heating systems are like wallpaper: you only really notice them if they catch fire.
For Omid Ardakanian, office buildings offer potential energy savings on a skyscraper scale.
“My obsession, if you want to call it that, comes from the sensors in these buildings,” said Ardakanian, a computing science professor in the Faculty of Science. “If you have sensors, you have data.”
And if you have data, the world is your oyster.
Modern commercial buildings contain thousands of sensors that measure everything from the plumbing to the temperature in different rooms to whether a specific door is open or closed or the lights are on.
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