The Innovation Hub for Affordable Heating and Cooling (i-Hub) is running a series of free webinars to provide updates on the current research and status of the projects underway. Join us for the second edition of the i-Hub Summit this November/December 2020.

The second webinar looks at i-Hub's Smart Building Data Clearing House. It will provide an update on Data Clearing House activity, look to the future, and include a Q&A discussion.

The Data Clearing House will deliver an open data platform for sharing data relating to the operation of HVAC&R and renewable energy equipment.

Accurate and detailed building data is needed to properly manage energy use and improve building operations. But access to such data is limited by a lack of open standards and trusted processes for the sharing of diverse data sets. Opportunities, from new Internet-of-Things sensors and data streams, also need to be explored.

i-Hub aims to curate the Australian Smart Buildings Data Clearing House, a single location for accessing a wide range of energy and building data. It aims to increase the quality and value of data sets, and empower Australian businesses to develop new data analytics services.

This data, combined with the services of i-Hub member companies, will be used by building owners and property managers to save energy, improve efficiencies and reduce costs.

For more on i-Hub, please visit http://www.ihub.org.au

For more information and to watch the first i-Hub Summit (June/July 2020), please click here.

The Innovation Hub for Affordable Heating and Cooling (i-Hub) is an initiative led by the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) in conjunction with CSIRO, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the University of Melbourne and the University of Wollongong and supported by Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to facilitate the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) industry’s transition to a low emissions future, stimulate jobs growth, and showcase HVAC&R innovation in buildings.

The objective of i-Hub is to support the broader HVAC industry with knowledge dissemination, skills-development and capacity-building. By facilitating a collaborative approach to innovation, i-Hub brings together leading universities, researchers, consultants, building owners and equipment manufacturers to create a connected research and development community in Australia.

This Project has received funding from the Australian Government's Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) as part of ARENA’s Advancing Renewables Program.