So far in this series we've looked at creating 2D heatmaps, making them resizable, and then adding lots of them inside Project Dasher. I've mentioned a few times – and I've seen the same commented via LinkedIn – that viewing data from multiple building floors at the same time would be beneficial. As a reminder, here's what happens when you change floors with the current implementation: The UX to implement some kind of "pinning" mechanism was non-trivial, but possible. The way I ended up thinking about this was as follows: We still want generic panels that will show data for…

In the last couple of posts in this series, we looked at how we've been able to include a 2D heatmap view inside Project Dasher and make it resizable via a square, transparent panel. This post is really just to let you know that we've now extended the capability to support multiple heatmaps, which is particularly interesting if you want to compare data from different sensor types across the floor of a building. (I often say that the value in a tool like Dasher is in its ability to correlate multiple streams of data – such as occupancy with CO2…

A nice article was published recently on Redshift regarding Kingspan's new IKON building. The article focuses particularly on describing how IKON furthers Kingspan's commitment to innovation and sustainability. In this post I thought we'd look in a bit more detail at how Autodesk Research has been involved in the IKON project, specifically regarding the deployment of sensor and camera technology to help create a digital twin of IKON inside Project Dasher. IKON is Kingspan's new headquarters and global innovation centre at Kingscourt in County Cavan, Ireland. Here's an introductory video that talks about this project and shows a couple of…

A week or two ago, I had a meeting with some colleagues to discuss future needs for Project Dasher. One of these requirements related to an exhibit where we're going to want to ignore all the 3D visualization of sensor data, and focus on the 2D case (I.e. where we shade a 2D floorplan with the sensor values). When this came up I thought to myself "oh, this could be a good driver for us implementing a 2D workflow inside Dasher", something I've chewed on in the past. This time around, I started off thinking about whether to use a…

Last week I posted about how roll-ups in the time-series back-end used by Project Dasher enable some interesting visualization opportunities. When my colleague Hali Larsen saw the post, she made a really interesting suggestion: It would be cool if the user could select whether the heatmap visualizes the Max, Min, or Average of the data for the selected rollup. (Yet another drop down...) The advantage would be that someone looking for a feature in the data would see the "spikes" whereas when you use the rollups as they currently work you lose a lot of the variability of colour due…

When we started developing Dasher in late 2009 – back then it had a desktop client – one of the main drivers was around providing an interface to explore IoT data (at the time measuring building performance) responsively in a 3D context. To do this we knew that we needed some way to summarize the raw sensor data at different levels of detail: there was no way we could wait around for the client to query years of sensor data in order to visualize a high-level summary, for instance. In our time-series back-end the team developed a mechanism we refer…