Labs and living testbeds where we prove ideas at real scale. Several are open to industry partners who want to test their technology in the field.
A first-of-its-kind facility in India: a 5,600 kWh thermal storage system coupled with a central chilled-water cooling system, providing night-time cooling for a 220-room hostel.
Home to our in-house environmental wind tunnel, with a 2 ft test section and arrays of variable-speed DC fans that use about five times less power than a single-fan design. Used for urban wind flow, ventilation and pollutant dispersion studies.
Studio space for interactive, collaborative design and simulation. We combine building energy simulation with virtual reality, so architects and engineers can walk through a design and see how orientation, windows and shading change its energy use and daylight.
Set-ups that identify which devices are running, and how much energy each uses, from aggregate electricity measurements, without a sensor on every appliance.
A test room where DC lights and devices draw power from ceiling rails and are controlled by wireless Bluetooth switches, removing conventional wiring and the losses of converting DC to AC.
A campus-wide microgrid bringing 423 kWp of rooftop solar, storage, thermal storage and controllable loads under SCADA-based control, as a living lab for grid intelligence and automation.
Fully functional homes fitted with automation and sensors, to test envelopes, lighting, air conditioning and smart home technologies with real occupants.
About the planStartups, manufacturers and solution providers can evaluate and demonstrate products in our living labs, under real Indian conditions.
