Center for Innovation helps start-up join NSF commercialization program – UND Today

Tau Drones, which helped conduct the audit, now is taking part in a commercialization program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Tau Drones, an energy analytics company, was accepted to and has started the National Science Foundation's National I-Corps Program. Tau Drones is a local company in Grand Forks, N.D., owned by Matt Dunlevy. The company evaluates commercial and residential buildings for energy efficiency. "We are trying to automate the energy auditing process as well as make sense of why energy is lost from certain buildings," said Karthik Balaji, Tau Drones' product development lead.