A major update to Dasher 360; now showing the NEST building

Today’s a big day: Dasher360.com has been updated to let you browse the model and data coming from Empa’s amazing NEST building near Zurich, Switzerland. Head on over and give it a try!

The NEST in Dasher 360

Here’s a quick video introducing the new Dasher 360 (you can also access this from the main Dasher 360 page):

While we’ve been working to get the NEST model working well inside Dasher 360, we’ve also enhanced the tool in a number of key ways, especially with regards to better support for “equipment” (objects with multiple sensors) and dealing with display of data from a certain moment. Here’s an animation showing how various UI elements are coordinated with the timeline to show the data at the specific “current historical” point in time:

Animate all the things

We’ve also enabled support for realtime data sent to the browser via WebSockets. This isn’t something you can use unless physically present on the local network, but the mechanism is in place and works well.

There are a bunch of other changes…

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