Technology Trends in Intelligent & High Performance Buildings

Leveraging BIG Data

Texas Energy Managers Association

Presented by:Patrick Mabry - OpenTech

Mike Putich - ClimatecMay 15, 2014

Agenda• Introductions• Big Data Facts• BAS Industry History• Smart Buildings• Opportunities, Challenges & Solutions

• Successes• OpenTech / Climatec Overview• Closing Thoughts• Questions

Just the Facts

• Computing technology will double every 18 months (Moore’s Law)

• Business data doubles every 1.2 years• Big data market = $50B by 2017• Poor or bad data costs 20%-30% in lost

revenue annually• Strain on infrastructures causes lost

opportunities• Data is good (my opinion)

Source - www.wikibon.org

Needle in a Haystack

ConsolidationOEM’s repositionBranches & tech platformsIndependents at 60% share

BAS Industry History

1980’s 1990’s 2000’s 2010’s

“Big 3” MarketVertically integratedProprietary technologyExpensive service70% turnkey share

New IT TechnologyOpen protocolsIP networkingNimble upstarts

Energy managementTenant comfort

SustainabilityCorporate responsibilityEnterprise management

Smart Buildings“Big 3+” investments“Super independents”“Analytics” competitorsAdvent of “BIG DATA”

Smart Buildings Eye Chart

Smart Buildings

• Proposition• BAS + IT convergence = awareness and

action• Low capital investment, up to 20%

savings

• Promise • Interactive and intuitive • Reduce consumption, emissions, and

costs• Improve comfort and productivity• Persistent savings and behavioral

change• Identify, measure, verify, report, KPI, FDD• Involves all stakeholders

“Prius Effect”

Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Portfolio Performance

Public Perception

Carbon Footprint

Energy Use (Simple)

Energy Use (Detailed)

Building Performance

Building Comfort

Education / Awareness

Executives

Energy Manager

Sustainability Manager

Facility Manager

Engineer

Occupants

Public / Visitors

Students / Teachers

ManualData Input

Reports

Scheduling TenantBilling

Utility Mgt.

Aging Buildings

StudentEngagement

PublicTransparenc

y

How many balls in the air is too many?

The Big Question: Do we know how our building systems really operate?

Who’s watching to make sure?

• Who verifies that what they are doing is right? • That assumptions were (are) correct? • That they are still running as expected…

haven’t been interfered with or overridden – a common problem• Buildings are too complex for this to be done

solely by humans • Too much data… systems too complex…

The Old WayA very manual process

View graphics of equipment systems

Review reports or history logs

Export data into Excel for manual analysis

No single tool that works across all kinds of data

Single location of building portfolio Software automatically looks for

“issues” (things that matter) in our data…. Compare & rank building performance

Portfolio or across national/regional averages Identify and address issues

Profile building performance Make better decisions

Optimize building operations Air/water systems Demand response

Engage stakeholders

The Answer:Analytics & Visualization

Solutions• Variety of solutions available• Energy Dashboards• Sustainability & KPI Dashboards• Fault Detection & Data Analytics• Building Automation Control• Tenant After Hours• Submetering & Billing• Demand Response / Control• Business Systems Integrations• Central Plant Optimization• Kiosks

• Business models• CapEx• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Web browser based tools• Mobile applications

Underpinning Research

Source – U. S. Department of Energy

Commercial Office• Worldwide real estate owner• Enterprise-level deployment• Dashboards• Building Automation• Tenant after hours• Fault detection• Business systems integration

• Hosted by Climatec• System statistics –• 13M sqft / 90+ buildings• US & UK• >95,000 points and >300 users

• Payback = <2yrs• Savings = >$2M

“Utilizing the platform has resulted in energy and operational savings as well as increased tenant satisfaction”

Vice President - Sustainability

Detecting broken sensors running large fan systems at full load all the time

• 39% reduction of fan energy• $1300/year for 15 minutes of work to clean the sensor

Detecting improper VAV zone operation in a newly commissioned building (reversed temp reset)

• Operational savings by eliminating dozens of trouble calls per month• More satisfied tenants

Detecting night setback control not active in hospital operating rooms which run on 100% outside air

• $12,380 in avoided energy costs• 134,186 pounds of carbon emissions• 863,927 kBTU of energy conserved• 1.6 Billion ft3 less air moved thru ORs

Detecting demand peaks traced to manual operation of equipment =

• Avoidance of 11 month electric demand charge penalty

Detecting and reducing overrides across 925 big box retail stores

• $1.8 Million in savings from one finding

Detecting simultaneous heating and cooling in 67 sites

• $375K is savings from one finding

Examples

Industry Observations

• Market expansion, contraction & consolidation

• Limited case study materials• Diverse offerings• Many new start ups & niche players• Smaller companies & limited capital

• Varying deployment models• Limited direct impact on savings• Need feet-on-the-street

Climatec / OpenTech

• Largest independent BAS provider in North America• Founded in 1975• Offices across Texas, Arizona, California and Nevada

• Over 700 employees• Focusing on building technology & energy

efficiency• Building Automation• Life Safety & Security• Video Surveillance• Nurse Call / Infant Protection• Performance Contracting• Enterprise Energy Management (Big Data)

PRODUCTS OFFERED / SUPPORTED

Closing Comments

Questions