Tag Archives: sensors
Microsoft Creates Smart Campus with Sensors
“Give me a little data and I’ll tell you a little. Give me a lot of data and I’ll save the world,” says Darrell Smith, who heads Facilities and Energy for Microsoft. To transform Microsoft’s buildings into a cohesive ”smart campus,” Smith was among those who realized some 30,000 sensors had been installed by various vendors over the years - it [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Sensors Embedded in Roads
In many countries there are regulations in place to prevent trailer owners from overloading their vehicles. This leads to the need for periodic inspections. To weigh a large vehicle one obviously needs to stop it. After the inspection, when a vehicle accelerates to normal speed, it wastes a lot of fuel for no good reason. [...]
Energy Efficiency Futurewatch: Self-Calibrating Sensors
Everyone’s heard the old saying: you can’t manage what you can’t measure. But what if you can’t even measure what you’re measuring in the first place? That’s actually a key problem with the sensors used to monitor and control today’s factories, data centers, offices and other buildings. The fact is, they go out of whack, [...]
In Focus: Building Energy Sensor Networks
There’s a key barrier between the technology that runs modern HVAC, lighting and other energy-intensive building systems today, and the quest to make it run more efficiently: a lack of energy data. Beyond the meters that record the entire building energy use, and perhaps some sub-metering for individual offices or building systems, there just isn’t [...]