75F

Why We Made this Film

When it comes to deploying technology to tackle climate change, the conversation tends to range from scaling up renewable energy to futuristic carbon removal ideas. Yet compared to renewables, energy efficiency is about 6x cheaper to implement and, most importantly, it’s something we can do immediately.

Commercial buildings are the fourth largest emitter of CO2 worldwide, with 67% of their emissions coming from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (aka HVAC).  Yet so many of our buildings have fewer controls than our cars. In a car, we have driver-side, passenger-side, and rear controls, but in our buildings and homes, there’s typically limited control over small areas. 

Deepinder and the 75F team have built a series of sensors and controls that leverage machine learning and cloud computing to enable more granular control over small areas through an automated process. The result is a reduction in both emissions and costs—a winning formula that will surely appeal to even the biggest climate laggards.

If 75F was deployed across the US, it would have an impact equivalent to taking nearly 70 million cars off the road and avoiding 336 million tons of CO2 emissions! By making “dumb” buildings smarter, Singh and 75F are turning efficiency into major cost savings and significant emissions reductions. Smart, right?