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Articles, updates and posts from Future Cities Laboratory Global and its various projects and modules
Articles, updates and posts from Future Cities Laboratory Global and its various projects and modules
Segment for Solar Facades (S4S) is a tool that utilizes instance segmentation methods to accurately estimate the solar energy potential of building facades. Facades vary greatly in their design, and the placement of solar panels must be tailored to each application. S4S takes into account the architectural details and variations of facades, providing a more accurate assessment of their solar potential.
Automatic facade panelization tool for optimal BIPV layouts, based on underlying high-resolution cell simulations.
ACACIA (parAmetric Configurator for A photovoltaiC life cycle Impact Assessment) is a web-based tool that lets you customize solar panels and instantly calculate their environmental impact across 14 key categories, including GWP and human toxicity. Architects, engineers, and planners can now make environmentally-informed decisions for sustainable PV design, all with real-time feedback on their choices.
Solar-EV-Charging aims at integrating Electric Vehicles (EVs) to enhance the deployment of Photovoltaic (PV) systems in tropical Singapore. Leveraging a large-scale GPS-based mobile phone dataset, EV mobility patterns across Singapore are predicted, with detailed views zooming into specific communities. Aligning with localized PV energy potentials, EVs can thus be optimally used as time and spatially dynamic batteries.
Assessing solar irradiance on facades is challenging due to complex urban features. SolarGAN helps by introducing a Deep Learning model that generates stochastic solar irradiance time series from simple fisheye images, offering a faster, data-driven alternative to labor-intensive simulations for robust BIPV energy system design.
Thermal VR is an innovative system that integrates thermal feedback into virtual reality environments to enhance architectural design processes. By combining heat emitters with VR goggles, the system allows the user to experience both the thermal and visual aspects of architectural designs, offering a more immersive and intuitive evaluation. This approach, tested in virtual office settings, demonstrates the potential for climate-aware design.
The Engagement Platform strengthens the connections within the FCL Global Ecosystem, enhancing the programme’s overall quality and value
WCS poster exhibition visit Minister of National Development Desmond Lee; FCL WCS session
Research Overture SEC - Peter Egger, Felicity Chan, Siew Ann, Lock Yue
Poster detailing research work from Urban Biocycles presented at the Biointerfaces 2024 International Conference at Muttenz, Switzerland.
Yue Zhu is attending the EGU 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
