It would be difficult nowadays not to come across a piece of news, article or posting related to Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Whether it is smart appliances and home automation systems with intelligent digital assistants, autonomous vehicles, advanced medical diagnostics, virtual…
Fundamental Series on Building Analytics: How to evaluate the different Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics technologies available today – Part 2
Let’s resume our discussion tackling AFDD technologies with three more evaluating criteria, analysis methodology, fault proficiency, and implementation process. This framework, designed to help organizations make informed decisions, offers a practical guide to everyone considering building analytics today. We invite you to…
Fundamental Series on Building Analytics: How to evaluate the different Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics technologies available today – Part 1
Our previous blog in this series ended with the question, “why implement fault detection and diagnostics in buildings?” Whether you are already convinced that your organization needs to jump on the Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics (AFDD) bandwagon, or you are…
Fundamental Series on Building Analytics: What is Fault Detection and Diagnostics?
We have all experienced the frustration of not having our household appliances or electronic devices work as intended. During those times, we wish we would quickly know what is wrong, learn how to fix them, and move on with our lives….
BAS Alarms vs Building Analytics: How do they differ?
Building Automation System (BAS) alarms can be set up in controllers to generate a notification whenever something of interest has occurred. For instance, for primary systems such as Boilers, an alarm can be set up to notify the building operator whenever…
A Case for Virtual Metering
This is a tale of two buildings, Building A and Building B. Both buildings have electrical and natural gas services provided by their local utility companies, with main physical meters sending energy consumption data to their respective Building Automation System (BAS)….
Auditing Building Comfort Series: Duct Health
Effective and energy efficient duct systems start with good design. It is critical to keep occupant comfort and health in mind from the outset to ensure proper indoor air quality in the long term, especially in office buildings, K-12 schools, and…
How to Invest In Occupant Comfort (& Get ROI)
6 variables drive an occupant’s thermal comfort: air temperature, surface temperature, humidity, clothing level, activity level, and air velocity, but these factors don’t tell the full story behind the maintenance involved in optimizing temperature in office buildings, commercial buildings, K-12 schools,…
Auditing Building Comfort Series: Safety & Energy Use in Lab Spaces
Lab spaces in K-12 schools and especially on university campuses are notorious for consuming a large proportion of the overall energy expenditure in their building portfolios. This is largely because of the necessary safety measures that are taken to maintain a…
What Does it Take to Become Analytic-Driven – Part 2?
The main question we have been pondering since our October blog has been – how can my sustainability and facility management teams become analytic-driven? While we’ve focused on technology as a key ingredient in this process, this time we consider two…