Welcome to DataStreams!
Welcome to DLR Group Data Streams Grand Program.
This is our first blog post of many along the journey to building more intelligent buildings. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what this program is perusing, let me bring you up to speed:
Data Streams is about finding how we really use our buildings on a daily, hourly, even minute by minute basis – because in the end, how we operate within our designed spaces accounts for the energy, time, and productivity we consume. Our team is partnering with tech companies, research institutes, and other designers to create a solution which utilizes metrics that can be monitored in real-time to better understand and fine tune our buildings. This idea involves both personal energy consumption as well as building environment monitoring hardware that we will integrate into a graphical display analysis.
This concept stemmed from the fact that we need to build smarter. The world we now live in is volatile in all aspects – jobs, economy, climate and energy. The key to designing better and smarter buildings is developing infrastructure. This will enable us to change our current practices and augment the future of design. The challenge is to create a monitoring system that can regular feedback on how much energy they are using and the state of their physical environments.
We hope you will follow our progress as we struggle and collaborate to develop the start of a system that as designers we can build on and make better. This is a platform to elevate both our profession as well as our products and clients products in the long run. We hope our enthusiasm is contagious and that our work can start a larger discussion on the future of environmental technology.
Sincerely,
Mike Vander Ploeg & Ryan Cameron