The Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) recently invited speakers from PG&E, Autodesk and First Fuel among others to address continuous learners on the topic of software analytics tools that attempt to remotely assess whole-building energy performance. This session was captured and is available with slides and audio here. Based on this information, plus additional … Continue reading Model-Based Building Performance Analysis
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Meter/Sensor-Based Remote Building Energy Performance Analytics
First Fuel presented on the topic of how the company uses meter data, mapping tools, weather data and occupancy data to model a commercial building's energy performance as part of the Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) recent brown-bag continuous learning series. Venture-funded First Fuel provides energy auditing services to commercial building owners that is typically packaged and delivered … Continue reading Meter/Sensor-Based Remote Building Energy Performance Analytics
Diagnosing Energy Performance Up and Down the Building System Hierarchy
The team at KGS Buildings makes a compelling case for a modeling approach to whole-building energy assessment that also supports a continuous and connected process as you move up and down through a building system hierarchy. Diagnosing a detected anomaly, for example, can require examining operational efficiency of the HVAC system as a whole, then a … Continue reading Diagnosing Energy Performance Up and Down the Building System Hierarchy
For Energy Analytics, Skip Big Data. Start With Right Data
Altura Pioneers Building Performance Commissioning Guided by Operational-Data-Based Diagnostics The Connected Building Commissioning (CBCx) process of Energy Engineering services firm, Altura Associates, exemplifies yet another approach to whole-building/whole-portfolio energy assessment. This involves on-site connection to the building management system (BMS) to extract realtime data from thousands of measured HVAC, water and lighting points and feeding … Continue reading For Energy Analytics, Skip Big Data. Start With Right Data
Building Performance Analysis – the Whole Building View from Autodesk, First Fuel and C3
— “Whole Building [Energy Analysis] projects save roughly 3X more energy per square foot than do systems projects, and they also produce a higher growth realization rate.” - Study for California’s Investor-Owned Utilities The Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) recently invited speakers from PG&E, Autodesk and First Fuel among others to address continuous learners on the topic … Continue reading Building Performance Analysis – the Whole Building View from Autodesk, First Fuel and C3
In NYC, Rudin EVP Explains Why Buildings Need a Brain
John Gilbert, COO/EVP/CTO of Rudin Management Company (RMC) spoke at a Greenbiz VERGE Salon event on Sept. 16 in New York City on how technology and data are transforming the future of buildings and cities. Gilbert speaks often on the integration of technology into the built environment. He also addressed the audience at the RealComm conference in Las … Continue reading In NYC, Rudin EVP Explains Why Buildings Need a Brain
Open Software Architecture Demo’d by UC Cal’s openBAS
One big lesson from the last few decades in building automation system (BAS) technology is that proprietary and closed systems create barriers to innovation. Many system integrators and building owners who lived through this period felt the sting of this lesson profoundly when they were stymied in their efforts to use information technology to improve energy efficiency and … Continue reading Open Software Architecture Demo’d by UC Cal’s openBAS
Smart Buildings’ Data Janitor Work
Data scientists, according to interviews and expert estimates, spend from 50 percent to 80 percent of their time mired in this more mundane labor of collecting and preparing unruly digital data, before it can be explored for useful nuggets. Steve Lohr, New York Times technology reporter, From "For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle … Continue reading Smart Buildings’ Data Janitor Work
Big Data Braggadocio and the Internet’s Original Sin
Here's my entry for the New Yorker cartoon caption writing contest. It's a joke, but I've heard statements very close to this more than once in listening to the buzz about Big Data and building energy efficiency. I think these boasts fall into the category of 'investor storytime.' In a now famous lecture, the influential … Continue reading Big Data Braggadocio and the Internet’s Original Sin
Microsoft Azure ML – New Support for Building Predictive Analytics
Microsoft Azure ML Designed to Attract More Machine Learning Development Partners: First Use Case is by OSIsoft at Carnegie Mellon Microsoft recently demonstrated a special Azure ML cloud service that provides a browser-based interface for authoring the machine learning algorithms that power predictive analytics, such as Smart Building operational analytics. The interface is easy enough for non-data scientists … Continue reading Microsoft Azure ML – New Support for Building Predictive Analytics
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