On June 17th the Industrial Internet Consortium, with companies like Cisco, Intel, GE and IBM at the core, formally released its IoT Reference Architecture Document, making it available for complementary download. When I wrote about the first public showcasing of the reference model at the IoT World Forum in Chicago in October, the resulting BuildingContext post was … Continue reading Buildings IoT Industry Gives Industrial Internet Consortium Something to Reference
Tag: Data Analytics
Across the Chasm?
Has support for standardization efforts like BACnet and Project Haystack naming/tagging taxonomy grown to the point that it is providing a pathway for data-driven building operations technologies across the Chasm? It feels like our industry is moving into a higher gear. So to think through the shifting momentum, I took out my Crossing the Chasm … Continue reading Across the Chasm?
Don’t Go It Alone When Retrofitting
by Jim Meacham, PE, Principal, Altura Associates Today, building owners embarking on an energy upgrade have more data and more choice than ever before. Digital data from power meters, HVAC systems, lighting systems, and other building equipment are waiting to be tapped. And there are additional data streams available from the growing number of sensors … Continue reading Don’t Go It Alone When Retrofitting
How DC Does Building Analytics
by Terry Herr, Intellimation In a densely populated metro like the City of Washington DC, heating and cooling buildings consumes the most energy and makes the largest contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG ) emissions. DC’s built environment contributes 75% of all its GHG emissions, which is almost double the national average of 38%. In 2013, … Continue reading How DC Does Building Analytics
Genentech Manages Large Portfolio of Critical Facilities by ‘One Set of Numbers’ Rule
Genentech/Roche has innovation in its DNA, and is now showing all the markers of a leader in data-driven strategies for facilities management and building operations. Genentech/Roche cut the ribbon on its latest building in South San Francisco on May 21st, with California Governor Jerry Brown holding the scissors. The Governor came to call attention to how such private … Continue reading Genentech Manages Large Portfolio of Critical Facilities by ‘One Set of Numbers’ Rule
Davis California Revs Ahead in Utility-Side Data Analytics
The University of California at Davis is where the 'father of the plug-in hybrid & electric vehicle, Professor Andrew Frank, first explained the potential load-leveling synergies between electric cars, the electric grid, and the electricity used at home and work. It was an inspiring vision for the 80's, 90's, and 00's, and it is now actually … Continue reading Davis California Revs Ahead in Utility-Side Data Analytics
OSIsoft Identifies 7 Sins of Facility Energy Management
It's hard to argue with the advice in this whitepaper now available on the OSIsoft learning portal. Author David Doll lays out all the ways good intentions about energy efficiency initiatives can go wrong: Sin of Wrong Accounting: Capital budget financing for needed energy efficiency measures Sin of Fits-and-Starts: Once-and-done commissioning Sin of Flying Blind: Making decisions without tapping … Continue reading OSIsoft Identifies 7 Sins of Facility Energy Management
San Leandro High School Students Demonstrate the Power of Data to Transform Facilities Management
Using OSIsoft’s leading real-time operational intelligence software infrastructure and echoMESH’s meters and service, students at San Leandro High School learned how easy it is to make a difference and transform their environment through simple data-driven insights. As part of a hands-on STEM project (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math educational initiative), students analyzed power usage patterns … Continue reading San Leandro High School Students Demonstrate the Power of Data to Transform Facilities Management
Field Report on California’s Pioneering Program to Fund School Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Jim Maclay of Altura Associates has a lot of experience setting up California K-12 Schools and Community Colleges for Connected Building Commissioning (CBCx). California has launched a tax-payer funded program to provide funds to schools to kick-start their energy efficiency upgrade efforts. Prop 39 funds have Measurement& Verification and reporting provisions that schools and local governments across the … Continue reading Field Report on California’s Pioneering Program to Fund School Energy Efficiency Upgrades
The Mockingjay in Nest
Nest Labs was a portfolio company of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before it was purchased by Google in December of 2013. The deal was a key talking point for both sides in the recent gender discrimination trial that pitted the VC firm against former Junior Partner, Ellen Pao. But, do we yet understand what that deal says about … Continue reading The Mockingjay in Nest
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