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"The Edge" is said to be the most sustainable and connected building in the world. Here are more ways it may be the "smartest building in the world:"

LED panels illuminate and "are also packed with sensors—motion, light, temperature, humidity, infrared—creating a “digital ceiling” that wires the building like synapses in a brain." They "require such a trickle of electricity they can be powered using the same cables that carry data for the Internet."


All work spaces are less than 23 feet from a window, so daylight dominates. Solar panels on the south and the roof create most of the power that the building uses, and that includes the charging of phones and of electric cars in the garage.

"During summer months, the building pumps warm water more than 400 feet deep in the aquifer beneath the building, where it sits, insulated, until winter, when it's sucked back out for heating. The system developed for the Edge is the most efficient aquifer thermal energy storage in the world, according to Robert van Alphen, OVG's project manager for the Edge."

One more good video about The Edge with a few more details is here.