Team: Watson

Team Participants:

  • Carlos Vargas

  • Pranjal Patel

  • Meera Vyas

  • Mithun Surve

  • Shannon Curtis

“With WATTSON, we can reduce energy waste across campuses by 5-10%, saving millions in budget that can be redirected towards research, scholarships, and other impactful initiatives.”

Problem

Wasting energy due to misalignment between utilities operations and actual occupancy across commercial campuses. Manually extracting utility rates from complex documents is time-intensive for building managers.

Technical Solution

WATTSON is a web application that optimizes utility usage by aligning HVAC schedules with actual class schedules, providing real-time monitoring of energy savings. It also automates the extraction of utility rates from complex documents using AWS machine learning models, saving significant time for building managers.

Showcase

Presentation RecordingA recording of AI Summer Camp students presenting their project.
SlideshowThe accompanying slides shown in the video.
Source CodeAll of the code and assets developed during the course of the AI Summer Camp.

About the DxHub

The Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) is a strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is the world’s first cloud innovation center supported by AWS on a University campus. The primary goal of the DxHub is to provide students with real-world problem-solving experiences by immersing them in the application of proven innovation methods in combination with the latest technologies to solve important challenges in the public sector. The challenges being addressed cover a wide variety of topics including homelessness, evidence-based policing, digital literacy, virtual cybersecurity laboratories and many others. The DxHub leverages the deep subject matter expertise of government, education, and non-profit organizations to clearly understand the customers affected by public sector challenges and develop solutions that meet the customer needs.