The building control startup claims to reduce cost, time and emissions with digital twin technology
US-based tech MNC Nvidia recently announced a $15 million investment in a building automation company PassiveLogic. This investment is undertaken via its venture investment arm NVentures. With the aim to reduce carbon footprint and the overall costs in the construction industry, Nvidia, along with this investment, will also partner with PassiveLogic on its digital twin technology.
PassiveLogic uses Quantum digital twin technology to make virtual copies of operational assets and on-site autonomous systems. Creating building system models from CAD or 3D models helps customers to gain better insight into problems. CEO Troy Harvey explained: “To solve complex, compute-intensive problems like autonomous systems we created the first ‘industrial-grade AI’ platform. [This] takes us beyond research-centric deep learning, enabling compile-time, type-checked, heterogeneous models that we can deliver into the hands of regular people.”
Harvey said that buildings used 41% of the world’s energy. He further added, “To make these buildings more efficient, we built a technology stack that generalizes autonomous control, making it usable for the folks applying these technologies every day.”
Nvidia Corporation is a technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It is a leading designer and manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs).
