Dr. Poppy Crum

Like it's the point where HVAC systems actually get sexy, right?

Not sexy in that sense, but they're actually really interesting because they are the heart of, you know.

Heating, ventilation.

But you think about a thermostat, you know, a thermostat right now is optimizing for an AI thermostat optimizing for my behavior.

But it's trying to save me resources, trying to save me money, but it doesn't know if I'm hot or cold.

It doesn't know, to your point, my intent, what I'm trying to do at that moment.

And this speaks more to a lot of the things you've studied in the past.

It doesn't know what my optimal state is for my goal in that moment in time.

Right.

But it can very easily, frankly, you know, it can talk to me, but it can also know how my state of my body right now and what is going, you know, if it's 1 a.m.

and I really need to work on a paper, you know, my house should not get cold, but it also should be very, it should, for me, it shouldn't.

I know for some people it should.

Home, vehicle, yes.

Because it needs to treat me as a dynamic time series.

It needs to understand the context of everything that's driving my state internally.

There's everything that's driving my state in my local environment, meaning my home or my car.

And then there's what's driving my state externally from my external environment.

And we're in a place where those things are rarely treated interacting together for the optimization and the dynamic interactions that happen.

But we can know these things.

We can know so much about the human state from non-contact sensors.