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Fighting global challenges with a smart building ecosystem
In the KEKO Ecosystem project, we at Halton, want to address two very relevant issues for people’s life now and in the future: improving their wellbeing in buildings through better indoor climate, and promoting sustainability through lower energy consumption.
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3rd KEKO challenge competition is launched with Combient Foundry
Now we focus on the usage of data gathered during the planning and construction phases. A lot of data is already gathered from construction sites but currently, this data is underutilized. Founders submit your solution by 22nd of October!
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2nd KEKO challenge competition is ongoing with Industryhack
What kinds of mass-customized or personalized solutions or value adding
services could we offer for the employees working in and visitors visiting
an adaptive and smart office building?
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Reasserting the Net Present Value of a Smart Building: From a Cost Item to a Value-creating Platform
The decision-making related to buildings has been based on investment costs, rather than life-cycle costs or net present value calculations. As smart service opportunities increase, the decision-making and attitudes associated with buildings should also change.
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Generation Z – Future Users of Smart Buildings
As KEKO aims to provide more comfortable buildings with better experiences for the users, we first need to know the users’ standpoint of what creates a perfect experience.
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The first half year of KEKO Ecosystem
The KEKO Ecosystem started at the end of last year. It has been a great journey so far; despite the Covid-19 have had quite big effect to our research collaboration. Here is the summary of the first half year co-innovation activities and results.
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Designing for enjoyable experiences in future smart buildings
KEKO has conducted thorough studies to understand the building users’ world, and to see the smart buildings with their eyes. KEKO user experience goals reflect user expectations and give concrete guidance to the design of smart building ecosystems and related services.
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KEKO Experimentation Platform
KEKO experimentation platform is the first step towards a fully functional KEKO platform. It enables working with data coming from multiple sources, rapid development and integration of new technologies, and engagement with 3rd party developers.
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“Four lenses of innovation” guiding thinking in KEKO
Developing smart building solutions that bring value to all ecosystem stakeholders happens through co-creation in multidisciplinary teams and together with building users. Developing new innovations and ecosystem requires the right mindset and a balance between design, business and technology
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