It doesn’t take much to be considered smart if
you’re a building. Add some lights that turn themselves off when nobody is
around or install an intelligent air conditioning system to regulate the
ambient temperature and you’re well on your way. But compared to the living
buildings, today’s smart buildings are the architectural equivalent of
single-celled organisms.
Using swarms of robotic sensors that ‘chase’ a
structure's human occupants, buildings could understand everything about us,
down to our emotional state. These robot sensors will learn from their mistakes,
self-regulate using digital ‘hormones’, and record information over the course
of years, building up a record of experiences to be used as ‘DNA’ to program
future versions of themselves, or even other buildings.
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