Sustainability, Preventative Maintenance, and Automation: Insights from BOMA 2023

Over the Air · 20 Jul 2023 · 38m

AI in practice: 3 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Ryan Prosser and Bethany Ibarra of Very attend BOMA 2023 to interview executives from GPRS, Metropolis, Dormakaba, Navian, Ecolab, Husqvarna, Quench, and Trane about IoT innovations in commercial real estate. The conversation highlights a shift toward predictive maintenance, AI-driven automation, and sustainability as table stakes for building management. Key technologies discussed include AI license plate recognition for parking, connected water treatment systems, autonomous turf care robots, and HVAC optimization.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationAI-based learning algorithmsaccuracy from 70% to 96-97 percentile

Metropolis applied learning algorithms to license plate recognition data, increasing accuracy from 70% to the 96-97 percentile, enabling frictionless parking without manual intervention.

“All AI-based, it's been had a learning algorithms is 2020. That learning algorithm has learned to map out different angles of vehicles, our camera captures, typically normal LPR ratios without an AI algorithm on top. Maybe a 70% accuracy rating. Our cameras are getting us into the 96, 97 percentile…”

Speaker 4 · Hear it at 5:03

Engineering & simulationEcoLab 3D

Ecolab invested in algorithms using 100 years of water treatment data to create predictive analytics for Legionella susceptibility in cooling towers and domestic water systems.

“we're taking 100 years of experience in that marketplace and investing in algorithms that have data for, like I said, the last 100 years. So we're trying to understand when we get that information, how we can take that and make it predictive.”

Speaker 7 · Hear it at 22:26

Running the companyAI provider / AI software

Trane piloted AI software on top of existing control systems to analyze weather and usage patterns for HVAC efficiency and to detect equipment deficiencies for intelligent technician dispatch.

“is pioneering, piloting a number of sites with an AI provider, AI software sits on top of a train control system existing and helps provide a better picture into what's going on in the system on a more frequent basis.”

Speaker 10 · Hear it at 33:30

Mentioned

Companies
GPRS, Metropolis, Dormakaba, Navian, Husqvarna, Quench, Trane
Products
Site Map, Navilink, Ecolab 3D, Sierra, Bevy

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