A team of students from the 2020/2021 UBC Master of Data Science Program (MDS) completed a capstone project in partnership with Urban Data Lab (UDL). The 7-week project goal was to develop a proposed approach for real-time anomaly detection system with Urban Data Lab’s InfluxDB time series database. Introduction UDL has access to the UBC […]
Tag: Building
Smart Building Energy and Space Management
UBC is the first 5G smart campus in Canada enabled by Rogers 5G network and a multi-million dollar partnership to fund academic research in 5G applications and applied sciences. To demonstrate the importance of 5G networks in the creation of smart buildings, this project focuses on an important subset of applications – energy and space management. […]
Energy Efficiency Finance
What is energy efficiency finance? What are the common financing mechanisms? In this article, Urban Data Lab’s collaborator Yang Zhou will share his thoughts on energy efficiency finance. Improving energy efficiency in the built environment is an essential part of Canada’s strategy to cope with the issue of climate change, which calls for large-scale investments in energy […]
Leveraging Energy Data for Sustainable Buildings
Urban Data Lab (UDL) gained data access to live-streaming building energy datasets from UBC Energy and Water Services (EWS). The data is stored in UDL’s InfluxDB instance and made available to students, researchers and operational staff at UBC as part of UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab Initiative. The SKYSPARK database on UDL’s InfluxDB instance […]
UBC Building Data
Urban Data Lab (UDL) gained data access to the ION server and the SkySpark platform managed by UBC Energy and Water Services (EWS). The data is stored in UDL’s InfluxDB instance and made available to students, researchers and operational staff at UBC as part of UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab Initiative. InfluxDB is an open-source […]