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Session Overview
New Areas of Value from Building Systems
Track: The Value of Building-IT Convergence
Thursday May-18-2006
14:30 - 16:00
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| To understand the new values created by Building-IT convergence requires an understanding of the range of possible products and services that could benefit from connectivity, with each other and with the IT world. This session will present a number of different areas where new value can be created on their own, or more importantly, in combination with each other. |
The Web will continue to lead the way with strong examples and models to follow for adding virtual value to everything in our industry. Most of the methods of presenting information now exist on the web; on-demand video, sound, radio, news feeds, narrowcasting, PowerPoint and Flash presentations, etc. All point clearly to the way the intelligent building communities can be created with displays of static and dynamic information on a network of interactive I/O such as digital signage.
To add the desired virtual value to our clients projects we simple have to understand the information flow requirements and determine how best to achieve them. We have all the tools and examples we need, and in the future, new methods are being developed, not by or for our industry, but to improve the overall process of IT communication.
There is a race to build virtual value into all products and services. Providing links back to legacy systems and leaping forward to powerful, but cost-effective, Web services are great examples of added virtual value.
The focus for 2006 will be on providing the greatest virtual value. We now have the capability to add virtual value to almost anything and Web-based IT-centric solutions allow us to leap frog costs effectively.
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| Research has been sponsored by the likes of DOE and ASHRAE on Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) systems, but there are few examples of this technology commercialized in a scalable manner in the field. Internet adoption, the continuous cost reduction of IT components, new Zigbee mesh wireless standards, and further analytical advances have recently enabled these highly valuable automated and remote diagnosis tools to be commercialized and economically scalable even for small machines and buildings.
The ability for a single operator to manage 1000's of machines and locations is now possible as they will be alerted if there is a machine or building system's FAULT DETECTED, how sever the problem is, DIAGNOSIS what the problem is, and what the IMPACT of the problem in terms of energy costs, machine life cycle, and potential of further damage. Problems are shown such as a gas leak or undercharge including how much gas is missing, dirty coil, or dirty filter versus only stating a high or low sensor value. Defined value creation actions are now efficiently prioritized and implemented by service companies, building managers, and even machine manufactures with a FDDI system.
I will introduce how a truly plug n play connectivity solution to the machine control, often not requiring extra sensors, is firewall & proxy friendly, with no router port configuration, and does not require a fixed public IP address, allows installation to be performed by the masses. This plus a wireless mesh Modbus solution solves one of the first hurdles, which is getting data. For high adoption, simplicity is key and so it will be demonstrated how FDDI results must be kept simple, which allows them to be interfaced with existing DBs, front ends, and reporting interfaces even like a 'My Yahoo' page! Lastly, real examples concerning the IMPACT costs of problems and the ROIs received due to using a FDDI system will be discussed. |
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| Integration and interoperability are important benefits of information technology. Their value has already been realized in the enterprise, where disjoint applications have been brought together over the years through advances like web services, XML information models, and service oriented architectures. This has helped transform business processes, and allowed optimization of many activites within the business domain of the enterprise. We can now look at deriving those same transformational benefits between the business domain and the physical operation domain, through emerging event-driven system architectures, correlation engines, data analytics, and interoperabiility standards. I'll discuss some of these technology and standards activities, and describe the types of business value that results through some real project examples. |
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| Integration of Static and Electronic Signage in Public Venues is no longer a luxury.
Life/Safety issues are now of paramount importance for the protection of citizens in high rise and municipal buildings, as well as in public transit. Information, education and entertainment vis-a-vis a visual medium that creates excitement and interactions by the viewers leverages enabling technology. From wayfinding and navigation to evacuation routes necessitated by emergency situations, clear information delivered via static and dynamic electronic signage delivered in realtime is a requisite. Automated building systems integrated with dual-use Electonic Exit Signs insure delivery of targeted messages on time to the correct viewing audience. |
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