GitHub repositories). We also publish a bunch of the data we use to calibrate the algorithms. I'll mention a bit later how we're the new Radbot available to the community.
No one normal — in this room we're not! — wants to spend more time with their heating...
Novelty wears off, can we keep more energy-efficient behaviours?
What about if you can make those energy-efficient behaviours something that also directly assists their main job?
Is heating a form of energy like lighting?
Do people react differently based on the scale of the units?
Not even gamifying...
SPAM, 409, greed, venal and stupid walk with us; carrots and sticks and nudges?
Here to move that carbon needle, so need profitable growth company, investment, sales and manufacturing... And we have that!
But we also received lots of valuable pre-investment funding from the likes of Climate-KIC, Innovate UK, DECC/BEIS, and others. If you've got a good idea, especially in cleantech, there is lots of help and support out there. At least drink the free booze at the networking events, even if you're a bit STEM like me!
Bosch's talk at FOSDEM 2018 on product testing with robotframework had it about right. When building hardware and IoT, model as as much as you can to make dev as much like software as possible with rapid comprehensive unit tests and CI (Continuous Integration). Then when you run real-world experiments you validate your algorithms and your test models. The models allow you to do orders of magnitudes more tests and tuning. And for those of us with heating products, we can develop even in the summer!
Why do we need to do all this testing for a boring radiator valve? Well, our code stack is something like 100kloc. That's bigger by far than the entire fixed-income library stack for Lehman Brothers when I joined them in the 90s!
We've made it possible for you to buy Radbots, use a dongle and flash it and you can play to your hearts content!
We're also looking to build an in-house controller with optional connection to the internet. Clearly will be Linux based. Looks like we'll have a job for an open sourcerer soon...
TRVs — rad through they are by definition — are not our entire universe. We expect over the years to develop other new easy carbon-saving tech for Jo Everyone alongside improving heating controls.