A healthy house or office can be energy efficient in areas including electricity, gas and water consumption, use of wind direction and solar efficiency. This research utilises existing smart and augmented reality technology as well as the concepts of sustainable living to save consumers around 30% of the lifecycle cost of the building.

Sensor devices placed in and around the home or office will interact with hand held and wearable devices to analyse the health of a space. An app alert will then indicate inefficiencies and provide recommendations (such as opening certain windows to allow better airflow) as well as calculate how much those changes could save you over time. The software then feeds back into a network system making the consumer part of a bigger community of knowledge.

By incorporating augmented reality the team cleverly combine a software driven environment with the physical environment of a building allowing the owner to better understand their home as a living thing.

The team are also working on alternate environments such as their Cambodia project where the system is being adapted to suit tropical environments.

The team at Felix Labs who are known as many minds, single author have achieved amazing heights in their 10 years of research including as Australia’s representative at the 2014 Venice Biennale with their Augmented Australia app and being shortlisted for an international design competition which lowered the carbon footprint of a building by 30%.