Siemens Joins Building Technology Crowdsourcing Community
Company to collaborate with DOE to explore new ideas in smarter buildings and energy efficiency
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Siemens has announced an open-technology challenge with JUMP, a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and five national laboratories. The online crowdsourcing community focuses on bridging the gap between cutting-edge building technology ideas and the marketplace.
The JUMP challenge involves defining the concept, use cases, and business models that could support the use of personal smart devices to interact with public spaces. While there has been explosive progress of interconnectivity and advanced applications controlled through personal devices in homes, automation, control, and ease of use for building occupants does not exist at the same level for commercial, public, or corporate spaces. Siemens seeks to engage the public in gathering ideas to tackle this challenge.