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Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, March 2009

Several home automation enthusiasts met again at LESO-PB to discuss recent developments in the field. There were four of us this time, Adil, Friedrich, David and yours truly. Friedrich openened the discussion by telling us about his ongoing work on the influence of light, especially its color, on human health. Early results suggest that proper […]

Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, November 2008

We met again on November 3 to discuss recent events in the field of building simulation and automation. This time we were joined by Adil Rasheed, a PhD student at LESO-PB working on the so-called “meso scale modelling of urban heat island effect.” David Daum and Antoine Guillemin were the other participants, besides yours truly. […]

Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, October 2008

After a two-month hiatus, we resumed our monthly meetings at LESO-PB to discuss recent developments in building automation and simulation. Frédéric Haldi, David Daum and yours truly attended. We had a smaller group this time, but that turned out to be a good opportunity for going into more detail about some of the research that’s […]

Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, August 2008

Four people again attended this second meeting, the purpose of which is to share information among people interested in home and building automation. As previously, here are photos of the group’s collective memory along with my comments. Fred told us first about a conference he had attended, organized and hosted by the Demontfort University in […]

Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, July 2008

On 4 July 2008 we held at LESO-PB the first of (hopefully) a series of meetings for people interested in home/building automation. The idea is to give people of widely different backgrounds a venue, time and opportunity to share, discuss and explore new ideas. It was my pleasure to facilitate this meeting and although I […]

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