Glass-surrounded houses such as this villa overreact when exposed
to the sun. This one has been equipped with an intelligent heating system
which anticipates the rise in temperature.
A start-up company is putting on the market a thermal regulator that uses neural networks to learn about your house as the seasons change, allowing for savings of up to 65% on fuel. Winter is still with us, and an efficient central heating system is essential. However, most of the existing installations only react to one single parameter - the outside temperature - in regulating their output. Researchers at EPFL have developed a system that manages multiple parameters and learns what is best for your house by imitating the most complex computer in the world - your brain. The technology has spun off into a new start-up called Neurobat (for Neuron and Batiment, the word for building in French). Each building reacts differently to changes in temperature. If you put 20 people together in a room, it soon becomes stifling.
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