The Future is Wow #6: AI to optimize building operations and keep you healthy
Embracing technological advancements can often equate a leap into the unknown, into a new and unfamiliar place. But with so many exciting innovations improving the world, new means better. In this roundup, we’ll be taking a look at how London hospitals, DAF, EcoEnergy Insights, and Titomic are taking the leap.
DAF: fully electric trucks
The electrifying commercial vehicle manufacturer DAF has partnered with VDL to release their first line of fully electric trucks. Zero emissions as well as zero noise is this partnership’s aim. DAF had already positioned themselves on the market as a strong leader in sustainable transport by being one of the first to introduce hybrid trucks and powertrains. Now, as cities want to become emission free and noise free, DAF is adhering to these demands splendidly so their customers can continue reaching for the top without increased logistical challenges. Need a quick charge? Find it here!
EcoEnergy Insights: AI, IoT, and more
A subsidiary of United Technologies, EcoEnergy Insights, has just launched a new IoT platform for buildings: CORTIX. This platform, as Verdantix tell us, will optimize building operations using data gathered from IoT based sensors, and processed via AI. This AI is trained on EcoEnergy’s existing mass of data and facility optimization solutions, so it can already tell us quite a bit! CORTIX will be able to reduce costs, increase sustainability, and maximize real estate value. An attractive platform that even the most tech-averse real estate professionals will not be able to resist. Read more here.
London Hospitals: reduced wait times and quicker diagnostics
The NHS – National Health Service – will soon start using AI in London hospitals to take a number of tasks out of the hands of overly busy doctors and nurses, who can then free up more time for the essential task: help patients. At first, AI will be used in the Accidents and Emergency department to assess the severity of the incoming patients’ symptoms, analyze how quickly the patients need help, and thus reduce wait times. Other applications are to improve attendance to appointments, analyzing CT scans, and automating certain routine tests. More efficiency in hospitals means healthier people, and that is something we can all get behind! Hannah Devlin tells us more on The Guardian.
Titomic: World’s Largest 3D Printer
The Australian company has revealed the world’s largest metal 3D printer that is not only large, but carries some nifty new features as well. It produces less waste in the manufacturing process, uses kinetic energy instead of thermal, which ensures perfectly shaped pieces, and it’s fast, too. The printer will initially be producing parts for the, among others, military, aerospace and marine industries, and Darren Quick on New Atlas also describes what the future might bring in other industries. Sometimes, bigger can be better! Want to be amazed? Click here to see the printer in action.
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