Last Thursday the Enhance team had the pleasure of attending the launch event for Edinburgh’s Georgian Shadows – a celebration of the 250th birthday of Edinburgh’s New Town. Running every evening (5:30pm – 8:30pm) until the 26th March, Edinburgh’s Georgian…
Visualising lighting data at the Assembly Rooms
The Value of Data One of the first steps in establishing a living lab for sustainable energy use is to gather and examine existing data relating to energy consumption in the building where the living lab is situated. There are a…
Temperature sensing with the BBC micro:bit and MLX90614
The micro:bit is the BBC’s modern day attempt to repeat the success of the original ‘BBC Micro‘ – a series of microcomputers and peripherals that were developed in the early 80’s as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and could be found in…
Surveying the ‘lab-scape’
As we begin to breathe life into the Enhance project, we have been engaging with key people in council and university buildings in order to scope out potential locations for our ‘living labs’. This has involved over 20 meetings, spanning various levels of management –…