Research Focus
The research team is developing innovative, low-cost sensing systems that can achieve privacy-preserving occupancy sensing, movement tracking, and pose detection for individual and group activity monitoring for commercial building management systems to effect significant HVAC energy savings in commercial buildings. The concept is based on a new time-of-flight sensing technology coupled with proprietary sensing, localization and tracking algorithms developed and trained using VR simulation tools and digital twin technologies. The research includes the design, fabrication, implementation and testing of new low-cost, silicon optical bench-based sensor technology. Dual-use applications of the technology under development include movement and/or fall detection in healthcare and eldercare settings.
Tools & Applications
- Group & Meeting Dynamics
- Intelligent Room Design
- Occupancy Sensing
- Human-System Interfaces
- Productivity
- Safety & Security
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Autonomous Operation
- Privacy Preservation
- Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
Research Lead
Rich Radke, RPI
People
Bob Karlicek
Rich Radke
Mona Hella
Research Sponsor
Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)