Dr Nagy spoke at the 2018 edition of the annual ASHRAE conference in Houston. He discussed our Bluetooth methodology for occupancy detection and showcased an 8% reduction of the chilled water supply based on the data from a $10 device. Z. Nagy, J. Vazquez-Canteli, J.Y. Park, “Using Bluetooth Based Occupancy… read more
Publication
Performative design environment for kinetic photovoltaic architecture
Research on dynamic building integrated photovoltaics led by our collaborators at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been published in Automation in Construction. Check it out! P. Jayathissa, S. Caranovic, J. Hofer, Z. Nagy, and A. Schlueter, “Performative design environment for kinetic photovoltaic architecture,” Autom. Constr., vol. 93, no. May, pp. 339–347,… read more
Presentation at the ASCE—GEESD
Our paper on predicting ground motions using neural network based equations has been presented at the ASCE GEESD conference in June in Austin, TX. Abstract Parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas have experienced increased rates of seismicity in recent years, providing new datasets of earthquake recordings to develop ground motion… read more