The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers has accepted PassiveLogic’s paper focused on Autonomous Buildings. The work will be presented at the 2021 ASHRAE Winter Conference which is taking place March 15–17, 2021. The paper will also be published in an upcoming ASHRAE Publication.

The paper, titled “Autonomous Buildings Enable Energy Efficiency”, offers a new methodology for providing system-level optimal control of buildings — elaborating on how to leverage Deep Digital Twins and their physics-based ontologies as the backbone for the next generation of autonomous technology in building control systems. PassiveLogic is very excited to present this information both in-person at the Winter Conference and through the ASHRAE conference publication.

The paper’s authors, Troy Harvey and Majid Karami, have unique expertise backing their autonomous building innovations. Dr. Karami is an experienced systems engineer with strong background in the fields of multidisciplinary mechatronics systems, artificial intelligence, control engineering, automatic fault detection and diagnosis for HVAC systems, building automation, and energy modeling and optimization. His Ph.D. research won the ASHRAE Grant-in-Aid award. The outcomes of his research have been published in 4 peer-reviewed journals, and 4 conferences. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he focused on developing an evolving machine learning-based automated fault detection and diagnosis algorithm for building HVAC systems.

Troy Harvey co-founded and leads PassiveLogic. He is an American technologist and entrepreneur, and the visionary behind Autonomous Building Systems. As the co-founder and CEO of PassiveLogic, Troy leads the product design, engineering and manufacturing of the company’s autonomous systems platform, deep physics compute engine, and digital twin standard. Troy has led companies and teams developing products in the consumer, industrial, and computer industries, including several award-winning high performance buildings. His expertise spans building science, embedded IoT systems, control theory, and supercapacitor technology.

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