What does a space know?
Spatial and device models make rooms, capabilities and relationships explicit. Our engineering notes examine reconciliation, state truth and the limits of heterogeneous systems.
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RESEARCH / RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Concept artwork · Looking beyond physical form to spatial meaning.Intelligence needs a world to understand.
Our research connects spatial structure, lived behaviour and physical outcomes. The challenge is not simply to describe a building, but to reason usefully within it.
THE RESEARCH ARCHITECTUREFrom spatial meaning
From spatial meaning
to situated intelligence.
A connected research agenda, built on an engineering foundation. Each layer poses a different question; evidence must travel back through the system.
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Represent the space
A shared account of rooms, people, devices and their relationships.
Understand the activity
Interpret behaviour and its phase in the context of a household.
Compose the environment
Translate intent into environmental goals and available capabilities.
Execute within boundaries
Keep routine control local and complex reasoning permission-aware.
Learn from outcomes
Use corrections and operational evidence to improve the next decision.
PLANNED PROGRAMME / UNSW × TECCOSafer buildings.
Safer buildings.
More intelligent decisions.
The planned programme within the ARC FRIASA research context brings spatial data, heterogeneous IoT, safety-aware reasoning and building energy flexibility into a shared technical route.
Explore the research programmeWhat makes an environment useful?
Joe Zhou’s perspective proposes a behaviour-centred environment engine: context informs goals, goals inform composition, and meaningful corrections inform learning.
Read Joe Zhou’s perspectiveHow do we know it worked?
Lab investigations connect hypotheses to test conditions and observed outcomes. Release evidence and operational validation belong to the same conversation, with different acceptance boundaries.
Inside Tecco LabResearch, in depth.
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UNSW–Tecco research programme
The planned research agenda for safe, resilient and energy-efficient buildings within the ARC FRIASA context.
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Concept artworkPerspective · Joe Zhou
A critical step towards spatial intelligence
Joe Zhou on behaviour, environments and a practical foundation for learning from lived context.
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Concept artworkLab overview
Inside Tecco Lab
An experimental workbench for spatial semantics, agent reasoning and operational validation.
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Concept artworkArchitecture direction
Cloud–edge intelligence
Keep routine control close to the home while complex reasoning works within explicit permissions.
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An evidence-led development paradigm
Connect hypotheses, contracts, engineering changes and release evidence.
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Concept artworkTechnical note · 6 min
Decoupling geometry from semantics.
How room segmentation, vision-language typing and polygon-derived topology become an editable engineering model.
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One model. Explicit authority.
Reconciling spatial identity, tenancy and resident overrides across heterogeneous device ecosystems.
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Separate the signal before predicting the system.
Low-frequency telemetry, solar and storage masking, and the constraints behind useful energy intelligence.
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A room should mean the same thing everywhere.
Why a shared project model matters more than another connected interface.
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Understanding a request is only half the work.
Context, capability and confirmation turn a conversation into an inspectable action.
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The handover is part of the architecture.
Connecting design decisions, site changes and the software that remains after installation.
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