In this episode of The Indian Express tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sivakumar Selva Ganapathy, Vice President of OpenBlue India Software Engineering & APAC at Johnson Controls. We are living in the age of artificial intelligence, and we cannot even imagine the ways in which it can be put to use. AI can help make our buildings sustainable and green. With the correct amount of data, buildings can be made sustainable at their very foundation and this is exactly what Sivakumar talks about. To understand the need for sustainable architecture and how it is being worked upon, tune into today's episode of Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan.

00:00 Introduction 
0:44 How AI helps in creating sustainable buildings
2:31 Enabling Sustainability at the foundation 
5:10 How data specific to India helps in buildings sustainable buildings 
9:19 Regular optimization 
13:14 Command control hub in buildings 
16:30 An awareness and knowledge gap

Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar