Planeta Inteligente

“I call it putting a nervous system into our infrastructure,” James H. Garrett Jr., co-director of the university’s Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure, said of the emerging methods to track how a building will perform as it ages and how best to maintain it.

CMU doctoral students Mario Berges and Anthony Rowe demonstrated Sensor Andrew, a system that monitors energy use in buildings across the campus using thermostats and other sensors. It even allows users to turn lights on and off from a remote computer.