smart buildings

The Energy Joule is Ambient’s latest innovation in its line of energy products. Its elegant display monitors and communicates changes in energy prices by glowing a varying degree of colors. If the device is glowing red, it indicates high energy prices; yellow indicates above average pricing; and green indicates average or low pricing. In addition to the colored backlight, the Energy Joule has a digital screen that transforms wireless data from the home’s smart meter into immediate, easily accessible information about current energy rates and household consumption trends.

The performance of two demonstration houses, built and occupied throughout 2013, were measured through a combined quantitative and qualitative assessment. Two families occupied the houses over a 9- & 12-month period of assessment. The factors measured were temperature, relative humidity, CO2 concentration and daylight levels. A Building Management System monitored the readings at quarterhour intervals and the living experiences of the occupants were documented through bimonthly questionnaires, phone interviews and blog entries.

Botticelli is a Smart NZEB built in Passive House Standard. It is on the island of Sicily near Etna Vulcan int he village of Mascalucia which is located in the Catania Province. It is a firs example of Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) adopting complete integrated design of Passivhaus Institut concepts in a Southern Mediterraean climate. It is also the first Passive House in Sicily and has additionally become an Active House with positive energy generation. It is residential building that has been occupied since December 2012.

DESIGO is an integrated building management system that covers all your requirements – both now and in the future. With Desigo CC, you can control and optimize all the systems in the building: heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, shading, room automation, energy management, and fire safety as well as security services like video surveillance and intrusion protection. Desigo CC adapts to your needs and can be used to manage multiple systems as well as individual services.

Building Index is an essential tool for cost-effective operation of buildings and facilities and is a modernization and new investment planning for determining strategic goals for energy efficiency. The top product of Building Index is the building control. The energy management system of buildings is automated for collecting consumer data and summary and it may be suitable for the building's energy consumption per meter, per regulate consumer, but also for the entire building.

In the context of so-called smart grids, buildings are expected to integrate in a cooperative manner and to expose their currently unused flexibility of operations (shiftable loads, load shedding, duty-cycling, etc.), supported by building automation and information technology. Building optimization and grid optimization, typically decoupled in existing solutions, shall be harmonized.

Verdiem Surveyor from Aptean helps accurately measure PC and Mac energy consumption, enforce policies for greater energy efficiency, and optimize savings.  Verdiem Surveyor delivers the most accurate data on IT device utilization. The patented solution combines keyboard, mouse, CPU, print network and disk activity to build a highly accurate model of device utilization that is the only independently verified and validated solution.

The Optimal Energy Management System is a high standard universal energy monitoring system which aims the energy process overviews for increasing energy efficiency, exploring saving potentials thereby it is possible reducing the cost in multi-stage continuously. The Hungarian Telecom expert team prepares proposals based on the analysis of measured data and on-site surveys (e.g. energy contracts overview, industry benchmark data comparison) which are available at the institutional level to reduce costs through optimization of energy consumption.

EnerXi is designed to control and manage buildings from an on cloud web environment in which different users could know all the real-time energy information: heating, cooling, electricity, hot water... (taken from counters, thermostats, valves, boiler room) may interact with it, verify the impact of the Energy Saving Measures taken, and even determine the economic impact of the consumption patterns in the building.

IBM TRIRIGA provides a single, role-based view of the data, allowing you to visualize energy, environmental and portfolio performance metrics benefits. It can help: Guide energy usage and reduce costs. Achieve efficiency and environmental responsibility. Increase building management effectiveness and productivity. Improve energy efficiency and increase occupant satisfaction. Centralize real-time events for consolidation, correlation and to initiate actions based on analytical rules applied to energy and operational data.