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  • ImmoTrack digitises home maintenance with artificial intelligence

    ImmoTrack digitises home maintenance with artificial intelligence

    The start-up ImmoTrack is launching an automated scheduling system for home maintenance. The Baar-based start-up is thus adding a module to its web-based software, according to an article by startupticker.ch.

    ImmoTrack has been developing a software-as-a-service solution for the digitalisation of caretaking processes since 2019. This is because, according to the information, work in this area is still often done manually. “Scheduling is done by hand with pen and paper, and property reports for clients recorded on the computer are printed out and sent by post.”

    As a result, there is no overview of the results and services provided. This leads to dissatisfied clients and tenants as well as high maintenance costs. Founder Ofer Becker, himself a former manager of a caretaker company, wanted to change this and developed a solution based on artificial intelligence with his team. Through self-learning algorithms, work scheduling can be constantly improved.

    “Over the past three and a half years, we have steadily developed the web-based solution and will be offering our latest achievement – automated work scheduling – from June,” founder Becker is quoted as saying in the article.

    A financing round is currently underway. So far, the company has been able to collect 2.5 million Swiss francs in investments. 20 customers are using the software. another 60 want to test it. ImmoTrack expects an increasing demand for a digital solution in the field of facility management.

  • Swiss AI is in the final of the Elevator Pitch Competition

    Swiss AI is in the final of the Elevator Pitch Competition

    Swiss AI has been nominated for the Elevator Pitch Competition(EPiC) 2023 in Hong Kong. The Zug-based start-up is one of 24 finalists in the Proptechs category, according to a statement from the organiser, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation(HKSTP). Another 26 finalists were named in the Fintechs category. The 50 young companies were selected from 618 applications from 55 countries.

    Swiss AI uses optimisation algorithms to help multinational companies and other clientele from around the world plan their investment decisions. A digital twin combines the financial, technical, environmental and quality of life impacts of planning to enable informed decision-making. Swiss AI is about “promoting sustainable societal change in terms of energy, mobility and urbanisation while creating investment opportunities around the world”. The company is based in Zug and the development department is in Zurich.

    The EPiC finale will take place on 28 April at Hong Kong’s tallest building, the International Commerce Centre. The centrepiece of the event is a 60-second lift ride during which participants present their business model.

    According to the announcement, EpiC, with the Science Park’s network of more than 1,000 investors and 300 corporate partners, offers “the best platform available for start-ups” to achieve “real business success”. All 50 finalists would have the chance to be considered for direct investments of up to $5 million from the HKSOP Venture Fund and receive support for market expansion across Asia. In addition, the overall winner will receive $90,000.

  • Algorithms help manage power loads

    Algorithms help manage power loads

    The simultaneous activation of many electrical devices creates enormous network loads. Since up to 60 percent of the grid usage costs for the energy supply companies are calculated from these load peaks, they have a vital interest in avoiding or at least smoothing them out as far as possible. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts ( HSLU ) has now found a solution together with partners, according to a press release.

    What is needed is “an intelligent and efficient energy and load management, with the help of which energy can be shifted”, Andrew Paice is quoted in this communication . He is the head of the HSLU Building Intelligence Research Center called iHomeLab . His team developed the prototype of such a system together with the HSLU Competence Center for Thermal Energy Storage, the Vilters-Wangs electricity company and business partners Asgal Informatik and Semax . The Swiss Agency for Innovation Promotion Innosuisse supports the project.

    The artificial intelligence developed by the teams and its algorithms use the data from intelligent electricity reading devices, so-called smart meters. The researchers used it to calculate thermal models of buildings. The algorithms “identify power-consuming devices such as heat pumps, boilers or e-mobiles and power-producing devices such as photovoltaic systems,” explains Paice. Then maximum power consumption, switch-on and switch-off times and energy consumption per day are combined with temperature and weather forecasts. This enabled precise predictions to be made.

    With these project results, the two companies involved in the project could now offer energy suppliers a service that would help them save costs – without the need for additional investments in their distribution networks.