Energy-related information presentation system
First Claim
1. An energy-related information presentation system comprising:
- a processor; and
one or more detectors for obtaining data on instances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and
wherein;
the one or more detectors are connected to the processor;
the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites;
the processor outputs a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment;
an instance of the equipment is an RTU;
the normalization comprises alpha and beta factors;
the alpha (α
) and beta (β
) factors are used to build the normalization for instances of the equipment of the one or more sites;
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Abstract
A system and approach for diagnostic visualizations of, for example, building control systems data. A focus may be on a similarity metric for comparing operations among sites relative to energy consumption. Normalizing factors may be used across sites with varying equipment consumption levels to be compared automatically. There may also be a high level overview of an enterprise of sites. For instance, consumption totals of the sites may be normalized by site size and length of time of a billing period to identify such things as outlier sites. One may use a main view of geographic distribution dynamically linked to subviews showing distribution by size, by aggregated climate, and so on. With these views, one may quickly drill through the enterprise and identify sites of interest for further investigation. A key metric may be intensity which invokes viewing virtually all sites by normalized consumption for a unit amount of time.
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1. An energy-related information presentation system comprising:
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a processor; and one or more detectors for obtaining data on instances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and wherein; the one or more detectors are connected to the processor; the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites; the processor outputs a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment; an instance of the equipment is an RTU; the normalization comprises alpha and beta factors; the alpha (α
) and beta (β
) factors are used to build the normalization for instances of the equipment of the one or more sites; - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An energy-related information presentation system comprising:
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a processor; and one or more detectors for obtaining data on instances of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at one or more sites of an enterprise; and wherein; the one or more detectors are connected to the processor; the processor receives the data from the one or more detectors on instances of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment at the one or more sites; the processor outputs a normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites based on data on instances of the equipment; the data from the one or more detectors provide a basis for a drill down to details of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning and/or lighting equipment; the processor provides a dual layer approach to the normalization of the equipment across the one or more sites, using data of instances of the equipment to build the normalization; the normalization comprises alpha and beta factors; the alpha (β
) and beta (β
) factors are used to build the normalization for instances of the equipment of the one or more sites;the alpha factor is used in the processor to normalize against an expected operation of the instances of equipment; and the alpha factor aggregates run time of the equipment at a specified condition during a specified period. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7)
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