S4EP8: AI's Role in Sustainable Building Management

AI is revolutionizing building energy management. In this episode, Bill sits down with Jean-Simon Venne, Co-Founder and CTO at BrainBox AI at BrainBox AI about their cutting-edge AI solutions for energy efficiency. They dive into current AI challenges, the critical need for defining AI's purpose, and the impact of predictive and preemptive control. Additionally, they discuss how to balance AI power consumption with efficiency gains.

Key Quotes:

“The bottleneck is now on your capacity to find the right mix of technology to assemble a new solution.”

"You could very rapidly deploy AI in thousands and thousands of buildings, without any bottleneck, and get the first layer of 20, 25 percent energy reduction.”

“I think where the future is going in terms of optimizing is not only the building at the building level but optimizing the behavior of the building. So the grid could be optimized.”

Timestamps:
(01:48) Jean-Simon's career journey

(04:22) Current bottlenecks in AI

(07:07) Bias in AI models

(13:22) Understanding the complexities of building operations

(20:44) Factors influencing AI predictions

(25:20) Energy consumption in buildings

(28:12) Clustering buildings for grid optimization

(35:00) Developing specialized LLMs for building management

Sponsor:

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Credits: 

Over the Edge is hosted by Bill Pfeifer, and was created by Matt Trifiro and Ian Faison. Executive producers are Matt Trifiro, Ian Faison, Jon Libbey and Kyle Rusca. The show producer is Erin Stenhouse. The audio engineer is Brian Thomas. Additional production support from Elisabeth Plutko.

Links: 

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Follow Jean-Simon on LinkedIn

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