
Automated HVAC, battery-powered tools and fire-resistant powder to coat buildings feature on u003cemu003eTimeu003c/emu003e magazine’s annual best inventions list.
Among 250 inventions across the business and consumer spectrums, Time highlighted the Aria platform from BrainBox AI. It enable users to automate HVAC optimisation and find hidden inefficiencies. Users can track data, make forecasts and then take action.
Jean-Simon Venne, founder and chief technology officer of BrainBox, compares the platform’s predictive powers to a time travel movie. “We go to the future, see how terrible it will be in two hours, and change that,” he told Time. BrainBox says its tools are already being used in 14,000 buildings in more than 20 countries, and can slash energy costs by 25% and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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