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“Local Warming” System Creates Personalized Climates Around Individuals

MIT researchers are using WiFi-based motion tracking and ceiling-mounted dynamic heating elements to create a system that generates personalized climates around individuals as a substitute to heating entire buildings.

Using WiFi-based location tracking technology, developed by an MIT professor and her team, researchers used this technology to calculate the location and trajectory of a person when they enter a room. This information is then transmitted to dynamic heating elements located near the ceiling, and they are able to follow a person as they move throughout the room creating a personalized climate around the person.

Read more how this technology could be used in large indoor spaces with low occupancy, such as large lobbies or industrial lofts. 

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A Dash of Maxwell’s: A Maxwell’s Equations Primer

Through mathematical precision, Glen Dash offers a comprehensive exploration of Maxwell's Equations, revealing the intricate mechanisms by which electric and magnetic fields interact to explain electromagnetic radiation and fundamentally shape our technological understanding of modern electronics and communications.

 

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