Gristle Crüe Call — Bill Clee @ Novacene.io

This was the call I’ve been wait­ing for since fig­ur­ing out the poten­tial of Heli­um and the wave of IoT-enabled deci­sions and busi­ness­es that are com­ing. Bil­l’s pre­sen­ta­tion on where he came from, the state of tech, and where it’s going was fas­ci­nat­ing and inspir­ing. Super stoked to share this with the Crüe!

Bill Clee at Novacene.io

Start­ed in IoT at Lon­don Olympics, 2010

Live updates of draw­ings on Google Earth

Fore­front of dig­i­tal twins

2013, right in the mid­dle of IoT

Always been involved in that tech 

BMS — Build­ing Man­age­ment Systems

40% of all green­house gas comes from buildings

90% of build­ings don’t have any BMS

If it’s over 3 floors, you need a BMS to man­age lifts, ele­va­tors, HVAC

That’s the Hon­ey­well and Johnson

LoRaWAN is a long tail model

Dark/dumb/unconnected build­ings

With LoRaWAN you can start putting in real­ly low cost sen­sors in. 

The data is miss­ing con­text. “How is the data rel­e­vant to where the sen­sor is?”

CO2 lev­el glob­al 320 ppm.  Today is 430 ppm.

900-ish giga­ton of CO2 in atmosphere

CO2 in schools can be as high as 2k-3k.

Hel­met build up of CO2 — motor­cy­cles & paragliders

Con­text

Loca­tion

Time scale: real time, near time,
“Promis­cu­ous” data

You can always just add anoth­er gate­way for coverage.

Schools are the best place to put gateways.

Start by saving 

IoT, decar­boniza­tion, and  cap­i­tal are con­verg­ing rapidly

Set­ting geo-zones.

-room size

-used for what?  Pri­ma­ry school classroom

-if some­thing

MIT stud­ies on CO2 lev­els and cog­ni­tive function

Con­trol­ling air quality

-relays, actu­a­tors, valves on LoRaWAN

Dur­ing COVID, when no one was in build­ing, build­ings were still con­sum­ing same amount of energy

The real­ly expen­sive sys­tems com­ing out of Hon­ey­well and John­sons don’t adapt.

LoRaWAN

-works, it’s good enough

-data speed is fine

-lots of communities

WiFi

-user­name & pass­word changes every 2 years, break­ing sen­sor connectivity

-2k sen­sors

We’re doing “peel & stick”, 45–55 sen­sors deployed in 2 hours.

Blenheim Palace is using LoRaWAN

-each room as its own spec­i­fi­ca­tion due to what’s in it.  Water­col­or paint­ings vs oil paint­ing vs china

Wainzee, Actil­i­ty, Lay­w­er, not Heli­um (due to security)

1200 acre site cov­ered with 3 gateways

David Green - His plan is to get Blenheim Palace to net zero by 2025, using LoRaWAN everywhere

Inter­pre­ta­tive data, pow­er BI, con­nect­ing with Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty to study all the data collected

Find a domain expert and give them the data.

Pig farm: Find some­one with domain exper­tise: Air qual­i­ty, water quality

In the mid­dle of the night, if you had to get a call from the plat­form, what would it be about?

-imme­di­ate

-a day later

-end of the month

Start with: What do you want to know?

Once you have first gate­way installed, every­thing else is straightforward.

Future

Benev­o­lent AI

Sys­tem run by a city using all the data mod­els to bet­ter man­age infrastructure

Engage with the younger gen­er­a­tion.  When data becomes fun.

Novacene white labels their LNS/back office man­age­ment services

Process

-find cus­tomer

-Novacene puts togeth­er a pitch deck

-user installs sensors

-presents white label solu­tion to end cus­tomer (the mayor)

-250 pounds/year 10 devices, 15–26 pounds per device per year

100 build­ings in 4 weeks!

It’s LoRaWAN, there’s a sen­sor for everything!

RSSI has to be 90–100. If it’s not, install more gateways.