BASRx: Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System

BASRx: Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Randy Mead, CEM, CMVP 21 st National Conference on Building Commissioning

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Presentation Big Idea Data Analytics plus Applied Knowledge will Leverage Your Efforts to deliver Better Operating Buildings and Reduce Costs

Learning Objectives At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe BAS problems presented: what is the problem and how did we get here? 2. Identify the retuning/mbcx process 3. Describe and understand the use of data analytic tools and feature set 4. Business case What does it take and how can it be done

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Identifying BAS problems Identifying BAS Problems

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Identifying BAS problems They don t work but they aren t broken Failed BAS: Unexpected and Unknown Results Paul Erlich Engineered Systems Magazine May 2012

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects T3789346 Low Bid

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects T3789347 Project Schedule Compression

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects T3789349 Change Orders

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects T3789350 Incompetence

BAS PROBLEMS The Usual Suspects EXISTING BUILDINGS T3789353 T3789354 T3789354 Change of Deferred Personnel Maintenance Change of Use

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Identifying BAS problems Retuning Process

RE-TUNING BUILDINGS BASRx Implement Collect Analyze Strategize Evaluate, Report & Fine Tune MBCx for persistence

RE-TUNING BUILDINGS BASRx Re-tuning Through the Seasons

RE-TUNING BUILDINGS BASRx Part-load Conditions

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Identifying BAS problems Use of Data Analytic Tools

DATA ANALYTICS BASRx Suggested Reading Analytics, Alarms, Analysis, Fault Detection and Diagnostics Making Sense the Data-oriented Tools Available to Facility Managers www.automatedbuildings.com By John Petze

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Data Analytics

DATA ANALYTICS BASRx XML.csv obix SQL BACnet Modbus Data Sources BAS Meters Process Business

DATA ANALYTICS BASRx Analytic rule: Identify periods of time when certain conditions are met and make reports available showing units, duration, and cost impact across any selected time frame, and provide continuous real time processing of the rule as new data is received.

DATA ANALYTICS BASRx

Central Vermont Medical Center - ESI Saved 162,226 kwh per year Saved - $18,174.86 per year Simple Payback 1.07 years Qualified for Efficiency Vermont incentive CTI paid separate fee to perform M&V

Central Vermont Medical Center - ESI

DATA ANALYTICS BASRx Monitoring Based Commissioning

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model Business Model

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model 6-7 50% 20-90% Number of times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing one Possible customer attrition rate if left dormant for five years Increased profitability by improving customer retention by 5 percent

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model New Customer Cost Cost of advertising/promotion Personal selling Price sensitivity Setting up new accounts Time inefficiency Increased Profitability of Satisfied Customers Reduced switching to competition Increased repeat purchases Reduced price sensitivity Increased referrals

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model Scalable

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model Things to Think About How many of your hours that you work do you actually bill for? How beneficial would it be to have a library of rules that you could apply across a spectrum of buildings that would quickly identify 70-80% of the issues?

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Business Model Things to Think About How beneficial would it be to save trips to the project site? Would auto-delivered reports save time and money? What would it mean for your business to have a recurring revenue source?

BASRx Chicken Soup for the Building Automation System Identifying BAS problems Rules of Retuning

Rules of Retuning There is no substitute for going to the building

Rules of Retuning Your best ideas will not come to you at the project site.

Rules of Retuning Data is awesome

Rules of Retuning Test your equipment

Rules of Retuning Changes

Rules of Retuning Sooner or later.

Rules of Retuning Relationships make it come together.

Rules of Retuning Watch what you say!

THANK YOU Randy Mead rmead@controltechinc.com