Scanalytics Lab

Technical Essay January 2026

When Buildings Assume, Energy Pays: Precise Occupancy as HVAC Feedback Control

Buildings condition spaces based on schedules and assumptions. Precise occupancy transforms HVAC from guesswork into feedback control, delivering 10-30% energy savings.

Technical Essay November 2025

The Substrate Economy: How Flooring Becomes the Raw Material of Spatial Intelligence

AI labs need data the world has lived, not just written. The floor beneath our feet may be the missing interface between physical experience and foundational models.

Technical Essay December 2025

The Spatial Nyquist Problem: Sampling Human Behavior Across the Built World

Human behavior has multiple frequencies, overlapping trajectories, and architectural filters. Resolution becomes a value decision about what parts of reality deserve fidelity.

Technical Essay December 2025

The Entropy of Human Crowds: Treating Collective Motion as a Thermodynamic System

Crowds look chaotic from the inside. From above, patterns form. Treating crowds as thermodynamic systems that process entropy offers a new lens for understanding and predicting collective human motion.

Technical Essay January 2026

The Compressibility of Reality: How Chaos and Structure Shape What Sensors Can Know

Not all data compresses equally. The boundary between structure and randomness determines what can be learned from sensor data and what remains fundamentally irreducible.

Technical Essay January 2026

The Error Budget of the Real World: When Humidity, Fatigue, and Mechanical Stress Matter More Than ADC Resolution

Digital systems assume the world is clean. The physical world refuses to cooperate. Designing sensing systems that survive reality requires budgeting for material error.

Technical Essay January 2026

The Slow March Beyond Silicon: Organic Electronics and Computation That Blends Into Matter

Silicon has limits: rigid wafers, brittle die, costly cleanrooms. Organic electronics offer a complementary frontier through conductive polymers, printed diodes, and flexible transistors.

Technical Essay December 2025

Unscripted Movements: How Sensing the Built World Exposes the Texture of Human Action

Human behavior is neither chaotic nor fully regular. It has structure, but the structure is irregular. Understanding the stochastic signature of behavior reveals what simple metrics miss.

Technical Essay December 2025

The Combinatorics of Behavior: Why Human Environments Generate Impossibly Complex State Spaces

What looks simple is combinatorial. What looks predictable is a branching tree of possibilities. Exploring why compression creates dangerous illusions in behavioral modeling.

Technical Essay January 2026

The Equitable Room and the Visibility Dividend: Designing for Real Humans in Adaptive Environments

Buildings have always affected people unequally. Adaptive environments make moral performance measurable and create shared visibility that increases cooperation.