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This feedback loop of energy capture,
usage and sensing projects is echoed by
Salemi's particular ability to draw and
maintain partners in an ever wider system
around his green projects.
Salemi knows his sector.
Building the college's physical lab space and
his team's original remote site
application to monitor energy usage in a
building began with support from partner
Industrial Technical Services which
in turn built on Salemi's affiliation with the
ISA Toronto Section.
An encounter with a George Brown
colleague, Shon Sorenson, connected
Salemi and his team to the Kortright Centre,
and with the opportunity to build a
unique George Brown router to connect to
the centre's Archetype Sustainability House.
The relationship with Kortright led to a new
and related project, building a prototype
solar tracker for the Archetype Sustainable
House, an adaptation of a Kortright design.
Then good timing and relationships stepped in,
in the form of industry partner Prolet Inc.
Salemi saw the chance to give the company a
demonstration of the remote site sensing
application, which resulted in a cash
donation for the Kortright solar tracker.
Then, enter DX2, a technology company
that is co-sponsoring, with seed funding from
George Brown, another related development
project from the Salemi lab: a
homeowners' "dashboard".
A web-based, remote sensing system to monitor
and report on energy consumption in real time.
Ontario Power Generation is also
supporting the dashboard project.
UCIT, which provides camera monitoring
services at remote sites, is another
industry connection Salemi has made.
Their cameras are now mounted on the Casa
Loma roof as part of the solar tracking and
Net Zero usage study.
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