Honda Smart Home...

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Net Zero homes by NIST on the east coast; Honda Smart Homes in California. We have the capability of doing this; re-imagining our infrastructure and reducing significantly our carbon footprint, likely create a few jobs that can't be outsourced. The world will follow our example, as they are now. What it takes is the will to do it.

Honda Smart Home is packed to the brim with advanced sensors that track the flow of every electron and every ounce of water throughout the home’s systems – hundreds of channels of data. This information not only advances Honda’s research, but that of our technology, utility and university partners.

I know, based on firsthand experience, that reliable, high-resolution performance data for best practice sustainable construction is hard – if not impossible – to come by.

So, today, Honda is taking an additional step in our open source approach to this project by releasing more than 200 channels of data – down to a one minute resolution – to the public at large. This data covers April through September 2015.

If you’re a researcher, builder, energy analyst or green building expert, click Downloads -> Energy Data -> April to Sept ‘15 above to download a compressed file with all of the data. Make sure to check out the README file for a thorough explanation of how to use the Data Viewer and Channel Parser we’ve built.

And best of all, please send any questions or interesting findings to me at hondasmarthome AT hna.honda.com. I’ll try to address as many questions as I can, and post any interesting findings the community sources here on our blog.

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