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November 23, 2018, Filed Under: Research

Whole Communities—Whole Health

CHANGING THE WAY SCIENCE HELPS SOCIETY THRIVE
IS OUR GRAND CHALLENGE

Traditional research studies take “snapshots” of people’s lives at different points in time. Those snapshots give us information, but it’s incomplete. That means we might make incorrect assumptions or develop policies and interventions that are not helpful. But through a combination of biological tracking, environmental sensors, and behavioral monitoring, we will have a more complete view — a movie, compared to a snapshot — of the factors that affect a child’s wellbeing. We’ll do this by working with families to figure out what questions they have and then by bringing the most advanced technology into their homes to help get the answers they need. Just as important, families will be able to log on to a secure website to access their information, learn about their health, and find community resources that can help them make improvements. [more at http://wholecommunities.utexas.edu/]

Whole Community–Whole Health is a UT Grand Challenge [Bridging Barriers], and brings researchers and advisors together from wide-ranging backgrounds across UT and Central Texas. Dr Nagy is part of the theme organizing committee and IEL is leading the development of novel environmental monitoring systems.

Follow us on Twitter: @UTAustin_WCWH and the blog on Medium.

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Whole Communities—Whole Health

CHANGING THE WAY SCIENCE HELPS SOCIETY THRIVE IS OUR GRAND CHALLENGE Traditional research studies take “snapshots” of people’s lives at different Read more 

About Us

The Intelligent Environments Laboratory (IEL), led by Prof. Zoltán Nagy, is an interdisciplinary research group within the Building Energy & Environments (BEE) and Sustainable Systems (SuS) Programs of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) in the Cockrell School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin.

The aim of our research is to rethink the built environment and define Smart Buildings and Cities as spaces that adapt to their occupants and reduce their energy consumption.

We combine data science with building science and apply machine learning to the building and urban scale

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Fault detection and diagnostics of air handling units using machine learning and expert rule-sets

Reinforcement Learning in the Built Environment

Reinforcement learning for urban energy systems & demand response

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for demand response & building coordination

IEA-EBC Annex 79: Occupant Centric Design and Operation of Buildings

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  • June Young Park
  • José Ramón Vázquez-Canteli
  • Megan K. McHugh, MSE

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