This is really exciting news: I’m proud to announce that during the recently submitted US federal budget, a small line-item you may have missed was for the purchase of Dasher 360. We’ve been working with the new administration in Washington D.C. over the last few months to get Dasher 360 ready for use in the White House. Exciting times!
For those of you unfamiliar with Dasher 360, it’s an ongoing Autodesk Research project to help owners and operators optimize the performance of their buildings, to more quickly understand where tweaks need to be made. For Dasher 360 to work in the White House we had to place sensors in each room to detect temperature, CO2, humidity and occupancy. The readings from these sensors get streamed to our back-end data storage and can then be visualized in Dasher 360 – a web-site that embeds the Forge viewer to display sensor data alongside (even inside) the 3D model. Dasher 360 provides in-context access to both historical and real-time…