The hub is piloting a portfolio of advanced energy-efficient building technologies and designs using sophisticated sensors and modeling equipment with the goal of creating technologies capable of reducing energy use in existing buildings by 50% by 2015.

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Bob Witver, head of advanced technology for Honeywell's aerospace unit, said the aim is to make "the whole experience of piloting smooth and seamless, " ensuring that pilots "receive the same kind of information on the same kind of displays" regardless of whether planes are taxiing or flying.

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