Intelligent Buildings and Smart Estates

Nov 23, 2011 by kirsty-pitkin

On Tuesday 29th November, Mahendra Mahey will be giving a presentation at the JISC Intelligent Buildings and Smart Estates workshop, together with Daniel Curtis from the University of Oxford.

The event is designed to bring together estates managers and ICT practitioners to help identify the opportunities and barriers that exist around the greater use of information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of university and college estates in terms of their costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions. The workshop builds on a presentation by Rob Bristow at the DevCSI Open Data hack day and subsequent discussions about the role that local developers could play in this space.

Mahey will be putting forward the software developer’s perspective at this event and discussing how local developers can help to integrate systems and build bespoke solutions to save the institution both money and energy. This workshop will be followed in January by a Greening ICT hack event, organised in conjunction with DevCSI, which we hope will stimulate development around some of the interfaces and standards used by buildings management systems, lead to improved awareness of the issues involved, and help to build strong working relationships between developers and estates managers.

There are still places available next Tuesday if you have an interest in hearing more about the systems currently used in estates management and discussing the issues with others working in this space. You can sign up for the event here.

If you can’t make it, but do have an interest in this area, you can follow the proceedings on Twitter via the event hashtag #greeningict.

Look out for more information about the Greening ICT hack event in January, or email m.mahey@ukoln.ac.uk if you are interested in speaking or taking part in this event.