Late last year on a cold dry night did a FLIR E4 survey of my house. Will not include the photos. A google image search for FLIR will get stuff much more interesting visually than I could present. Some online FLIR images even tend toward art.
Issues found:
- Massive kitchen heatleak. Wall too thin behind radiator. Unfortunately no gap whatsoever into which to insert a batt of Spaceloft. Thinking about a tiny under window greenhouse or exterior adhoc insulation.
- Big heat leak on inner corner of front porch where radiator pipes go to second floor. Insulation has probabbly fallen down around pipe. Unfortunately hard to get to. Again thinking about something adhoc on exterior. Looking at ComfortBatt wrapped in Tyvek.
- Exposed basement cinderblock wall. Thought our 12" thick basement blocks (with air core) would do fairly well. But the whole thing is uniformly warm. Considering stryofoam rigid panels - dig down to allow 2' height, UV protect with thin water and vermin resistant sheathing (maybe Tyvek again), regrade... will have to wait until snow gone, and ground thaws.
Places I thought there would be leaks - but there were none:
- Basement sills - suprisingly tight.
- Basement windows - had installed secondary glazing on most.
- Upstairs windows - have storm windows and they seem to do a good job.
- Attic floor - thought the rockwool had been distrubed to thin here and there, but good overall.
FLIR is about to update the FLIRONE .
And it addresses a couple of big issues with first version
A. Any device with Lightning or Andoid micro USB.
B. Consolidated App for everything.
Micro management of your lawn becomes a real possibility. See my previous post on Big Data in Agriculture. Here is something a bit "farther out" from NASA. And a bit more down to earth from IsraelAgri.
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Showing posts with label big data. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
FLIR Thermal Survey of House.
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Android,
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ComfortBatt,
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IOS,
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Roxul,
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Analysis Defined.
Dictionary definition: Examination of structure as a basis for interpretation.
As an action: Data -> Results.
Or more richly: Inputs and Ideas -> Decisions and Deliverables.
Methodologies: 7C's:
Traditional: Three "Chi"s:
As an action: Data -> Results.
Or more richly: Inputs and Ideas -> Decisions and Deliverables.
Methodologies: 7C's:
Traditional: Three "Chi"s:
- 1. Chance - guess.
- 2. Cheat - know the answer before one starts.
- 3. Chestnuts - rules of thumb with unknown basis, gut.
- 4. Coordination - statistics and regression for projection - functions of independent variables against well understood dependent varaiables like time and position.
- 5. Correlation - aka coincidence - any available variable against any other variable... including methods used in Big Data.
- 6. Crowd - wisdom of the masses (large numbers) - human and others - emergence.
- 7. Core - models based on reality - physical and observed.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
ABCD commodities, Big Data and IoT.
ABCD commodities companies:
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus.
In the news regarding agribusiness technology.
Big data comes to agriculture. Monsanto and Climate Corporation.
FLIR and Big Data... Precision Planting.
IoT meets real world...
FLIR ONE Lepton core (or Seek) on every fence post?
Or perhaps even more ubiquitous applications are at hand?
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus.
In the news regarding agribusiness technology.
Big data comes to agriculture. Monsanto and Climate Corporation.
FLIR and Big Data... Precision Planting.
IoT meets real world...
FLIR ONE Lepton core (or Seek) on every fence post?
Or perhaps even more ubiquitous applications are at hand?
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Energy 2013 - Big (Unexciting) Things
Big (but unexciting?) energy related things for new year.
Solar and renewable/alternative energy get better all the time.
But perhaps it is about using energy better?
Cherry picking energy related items from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
whilst taking the position/measure that each needs to be available now or soon at local retail. Will follow-up with brief entry on each.
Solar and renewable/alternative energy get better all the time.
But perhaps it is about using energy better?
Cherry picking energy related items from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
whilst taking the position/measure that each needs to be available now or soon at local retail. Will follow-up with brief entry on each.
- LED lighting
- Advanced insulation (and thermal surveys)
- Batteries and energy storage
- Energy surveys
- Longterm or broad analysis (continuous and big data)
- Sensors (motes) everywhere to fire the data engine
- Better behavioural research
Labels:
batteries,
behavioural,
big data,
insulation,
LED,
lighting,
motes
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