selecting an advanced energy management system may 2007 chris greenwell – director energy markets...

“Selecting an Advanced Energy Management System”

May 2007

Chris Greenwell – Director Energy MarketsScott Muench - Manager Technical Sales

© 2007 Tridium, Inc,

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Agenda

• What customers are experiencing and seeking from advanced energy management tools

• What customers are needing in successful building automation systems

• What elements of an Advanced Energy Management System should you consider when selecting a system

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What are today’s energy managers experiencing?

• Rising energy cost• Mixed results on

Deregulation• Confusion on

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Energy Background 101• Energy costs have been trending upward due to rising natural gas prices• Natural Gas prices have a direct effect on electricity

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What about deregulation?

• While deregulation significantly lowered customers bills early this decade more recent experiences haven’t been as good

• Most states have put deregulation on hold; many are shifting focus to Advanced Energy Management and Demand Response

• More customers are seeking to manage energy today than ever…

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Elements of an Energy Management Enterprise• Real Time Point Database• Historical Trend Database• Alarm Management• Device Management

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What’s important with Real Time Point Database• Are all systems integrated? With other

systems? With other devices? With other information?

• Can different protocols communicate?• Are systems web enabled?• Can you customize your interfaces?• Can you implement your strategies?• Can you automate decisions?• Do you have flexible scheduling tools?

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Can occupancy be integrated to energy management at a hotel?

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Real time occupancy by room information can save money

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A vacant room has a lower set point in the winter

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Global control for occupied and unoccupied rooms is an excellent way to obtain savings

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Real time metering via a variety of protocols may also be a requirement

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To correspond to real time data from utilities/ISOs

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What’s important with Historical Trend Database?

• Can you measure and verify results?• Can you benchmark results?• Can you convert engineering units of the data?• Can you convert energy to cost?• Can you create virtual points?• Can your historical database scale?• Can you import and export to other database

systems?• Is your solution more robust than excel?• Can you share and communicate results?

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By starting the AC later, how much is saved?

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Starting the AC a few hours later saves $1680 in February; $24,480 over the year!

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First identify the bigger users

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Atlanta is the highest user @ 11.6 watts per SF!

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Atlanta is also the biggest Dollar electric user

Examples of virtual points and points from disparate systems

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A close-up of weekend penalty calculations

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What’s important in Alarm Management?• Can your system notify you the way

that you need to be notified?• Can your system acquire data from a

variety of sources/devices, conduct analysis and then alarm?

• Once you have the alarm can you easily do something about it?

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Alarming needs to be flexible and accommodate a strategic plan?

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An alarm system needs to communicate information in a number of ways

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Alarming needs to allow for measuring and calculating data

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Customization is important with alarming

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What’s important in Device Management?• Can you easily add a new device to your

system? • Can your system learn new protocols?• Can your devices integrated with other

devices that speak different protocols?

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At times it is important to communicate with many disparate devices

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Unique devices – Grease traps

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Unique Devices – Ovens

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Unique Devices – Gas Pumps

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Unique Devices – Solar Systems

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What is important in energy management• Addresses the holistic approach – the need to manage a

facility as a whole to optimize performance• This means lots of diverse devices• The energy manger needs connectivity to devices and

equipment systems– Meters– Building Automation Systems– Factory packaged equipment systems (chillers, boilers,

AHUs, etc.)• Needed connectivity to the Enterprise

– Extensive xml/web services interfaces for:– Real time pricing feeds from utilities– Energy management applications

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The solution must combine networking connectivity, hardware & software to enable a powerful solution

Many solutions often only have products in one or two of the circles

• This limits their capability

Total solution addresses:

•Connectivity (devices and enterprise)

•Control

•Data logging

•Analysis/reporting

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Q & A

• We would like your feedback on today’s TridiumTalk

• And If you have any further questions, comments or topic suggestions, please email them to SalesSupport@tridium.com

Chris Greenwell Scott Muench Marc Petock