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"If you think like a machine instead of like
a human being, you use different data and
therefore choose different sensors."
Marc Dupaquier, Co-Founder &
Managing Director, Cartesiam
Marc Dupaquier is a French-American
Business Angel exclusively focused on
B2B Artificial Intelligence Software. Marc
is a co-Founder and Managing Director
of Cartesiam, the Global Leader of AI at
the Edge. Prior to this role, Marc was a
Senior Executive with IBM where he led
multi Billion $ businesses including the
$13B Business Partner Group, the iconic
AS/400 & Mid Market Divisions and headed
Marketing and Strategy for the Hardware
and Software Groups.
Marc Dupaquier, managing director at Cartesiam, believes that a good smart building
solution must begin with an understanding of the problem you are trying to solve and
the data needed to solve it, which often means thinking differently about the problem
you are trying to solve.
For example, engineers often design smart systems to solve problems the way
humans would solve them. Dupaquier cites the example of a client who wanted to
design an air filter monitoring system that would provide an alert when the air filters
needed to be changed. The designers knew that dirty air filters turn gray, so their
design used low-resolution cameras to take pictures of the filters and a smart system
to analyze their "grayness" to determine whether it was time to change the filters.
"That's thinking like a human being," Dupaquier says. "Such a system would be
expensive from a design standpoint—both the parts required and the maintenance."
He notes that when filters in an air conditioning system become dirty, the system
consumes progressively more power, and its start and stop cycles change. A smart
system can learn these patterns and accurately send alerts when it is time to change
filters. "If you think like a machine instead of like a human being, you use different
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