Innovative
Energy Savings Solutions
Small
and Medium-sized Commercial Buildings account for 95 percent of
building stock and consume half the energy in a sector of the economy responsible
for 20 percent of the total energy consumption.
Owners
of smaller buildings are often unaware of the amount of energy wasted and the
opportunity for savings that building automation systems provide. This sector
hasn’t BAS for the following reasons:
- the high cost of tailoring software and acquiring hardware components is beyond the reach of most small- and medium-sized properties;
- the owner is not always the tenant that pays the utility bill, hence limited incentive to invest in the building’s energy efficiency.
Cost
and Interoperability wide scale adoption of BAS requires interoperability,
scalability and ease of deployment that are achievable with plug-and-play open
architectures capable of local or remote monitoring.
Most BAS
currently Use Proprietary Architectures
Controls
Designers purchase all devices and controllers from single vendors
instead of being able to choose optimal products, controls and services from
different vendors to achieve widespread turnkey solutions that reduce
installation and maintenance costs with seamless integration of HVAC, lighting,
and plug load equipment as well as controllers from different manufacturers that
offer plug-and-play functionality for the many system configurations found in
smaller commercial architectures.
Benefits
include streamlined building operations, optimized energy usage, greater
interconnection between building systems and a centralized control structure
that facilitates demand response, savings and better integration with the electric
power grid, energy savings of 10 percent for HVAC systems and 15 percent for
lighting, increased participation in demand response programs, a
cost-effective, open-source, plug-and-play building automation platform that is
secure, scalable, and broadly interoperable, and support for the most prevalent
communication technologies and protocols, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Smart
Energy Profile.
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