Context
Most building research happens in simulations or labs. KTH Live-In Lab is different: an open innovation platform where industry partners, KTH researchers and other universities test sustainable-building and energy ideas in full-scale testbeds inside real residential buildings — with real systems, real data and real constraints.
Several testbeds ran on EcoStruxure Building Operation — Schneider Electric's building-management software that connects HVAC, lighting, energy and sensors into one place for monitoring, control and data. That data made the lab's energy research possible.
Contribution
- Schneider Electric's contact at KTH Live-In Lab and subject matter expert for EcoStruxure Building Operation and its ecosystem.
- Helped KTH researchers with technical questions and the engineering parts of their research.
- Explained what the platform could support and where its constraints were.
- Translated research ideas into feasible platform solutions, working with researchers and partner companies.
Product / innovation perspective
Open innovation in practice: value came from combining several organisations' capabilities around a shared testbed — balancing research ambition with what deployed industrial platforms can realistically support.
Research to feasible solution
- Research Opportunity
- Potential Value
- Platform Capability
- Constraints
- Feasible Applied Solution
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