Solutions for challenges such as grid congestion? They might be closer than you’d expect. Imagine a building that knows what is happening indoors and adjusts its energy use accordingly. By combining insights into occupancy, energy consumption, and indoor climate, smart buildings can reduce peak loads and use energy more efficiently. This makes buildings not only more sustainable, but also safer and more efficient.
Within the new Smart Building in Delft project, together with partners Comforest, RadioSense, and Highlight Delft, we are exploring how wireless technologies such as 5G and Wi-Fi can be used as sensors. The aim is to monitor parameters, such as occupancy, to transform buildings into intelligent environments. By analysing changes in wireless signals, this approach could enable privacy-friendly, scalable and cost-effective occupancy monitoring without the need for additional sensing hardware. The experiment is being conducted in our own building on the TU Delft Campus.
Curious about the project?
This project is part of the WoW project and enabled by the Kansen voor West programme (aimed at promoting the competitiveness of the Dutch Western region) and the European Union.
How can you start innovating today with the wireless technology of tomorrow? Find out during the Accelerating Innovation with 6G: from Testbed to Application event on 23 September from 15:00 to 17:00. Do IoT Fieldlab is organising this free, hybrid knowledge and networking event together with Future Network Services (FNS) and the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI), as part of Digitalization Week.
What if future energy professionals could experience the tasks they are learning before carrying them out in the real world?
Recently we were pleased to initiate the official kick-off of Project WoW, bringing together an ambitious consortium of partners including TU Delft, Do IoT Fieldlab, RoboHouse, TNO, SenseGlove, Mondai | House of AI, Highlight Delft, Perciv AI, Pythia Energy Intelligence, Comforest, EduvolutionX, BrainBite, and RadioSense.
Are you an SME looking to innovate in digitalisation, sustainability, climate, or robotics? Then funding through the Kansen voor West III programme is your opportunity!
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Look at Bin Hu (Do IoT Fieldlab), Muhammet Bilgic (Do IoT Fieldlab), and Elke Spiessens (TU Delft Learning for Life) putting their heads together!
Delft and Westland once again top the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index, retaining their position as the strongest ecosystem for entrepreneurship in the Netherlands in the tenth edition of the ranking. This position has been held since the index was launched.
South Holland has everything it takes to be the innovation engine of the Netherlands. But that position is not a given. Recently Economic Board Zuid-Holland published this position paper, and Do IoT Fieldlab couldn’t agree more.
