In the January 2015 issue of Architect Magazine, page 104, Roger Chang, the director of engineering for Westlake Reed Leskowsy, says, “Benchmark data in the US is non-existent.” This represents an amazing opportunity for the right architects and engineers to tackle issues with building design. Its a big challenge to start addressing that information and even […]
We’ve begun soldering the xBee radio relay terminals as well as the voltage regulators and microprocessors. It’s been a learning experience and a lot of trial and error, but we’re almost to a working prototype on the environmental sensors. Top 5 Things I’ve Learned – Soldering 1) Solder in a well ventilated area, or after […]
The lab is ready for wiring, soldering, computation and data collecting. Let’s begin!
Our first shipment of sensor hardware came this week. Ryan received 5 “Tweet-A-Watt” kits as well as a few Belkin plug load monitors. We also have some soft monitor OWL systems that will monitor entire circuit plug loads (those Brits really know what they’re doing!)… I reached out to Google employee and Founder of KippKits […]
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 […]