Re:Launch HN: VergeSense (YC S17) – AI-Powered Sensors for B...
by jcims on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:45PM
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I was talking with a maintenance supervisor for a large facility and he was saying that they were able to modify the amount of make-up outside air cycled into a facility based on occupation (think O2 depletion, lol). Is that something you folks have run into? Seems like if you could avoid exhausting a couple (hundred?) thousand cubic feet of cooled air per hour, you could save a good bit of money.
Modulating heating / cooling based on the exact count can help cut energy consumption, sometimes by as much as 30% for commercial buildings.
ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently put out a proposal for such a system - you can read more here if you're interested:
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/