with Apple and backed by Nvidia's venture arm has launched what it calls the world's first "fully autonomous" platform that applies generative AI tosays its customizable "generative autonomy" systems manage building infrastructure from a few hundred sensors and controls for small buildings to 1 million for large commercial towers.Buildings are the biggest source of wasted energy in the country, PassiveLogic founder and CEO Troy Harvey tells Axios.
Each building owner can assemble a tailored autonomous system out of pre-trained modular AI components, trained on digital twins of common building systems.Every building is different — and multiple systems and competing interests add to the complexity and cost of achieving energy efficiency. The systems can range from heating and cooling and ventilation to energy generation and storage in many different occupancy zones.
The interests range from residents or workers who want different temperatures, to suppliers working to maximize what the building spends on energy and maintenance.It will be at least another year before PassiveLogic has the capacity to expand supply from today's large customers to single family or even mid-sized residential buildings.