Leverage Energy Monitoring to Become a Green Building Advisor

A Green Building future for your clients begins with energy efficiency plans. Whether the project is a simple building tune-up, a new control system or a complete retrofit leading to optimal building performance management, Agilewaves provides you with the opportunities to differentiate your services portfolio.

Deliver Persistent Savings with Persistent Monitoring
Not only can Agilewaves’ energy monitoring help you to fine-tune operations with advanced tools and techniques, we can help you lock in savings over time for your clients. And, that can make for a winning project proposal.

Via extensive discrete measurements, Agilewaves provides insight into how a building is actually functioning, and if equipment is starting to fall out of spec. With an integrated picture of all key building components, you can identify operational deficiencies that would normally go undetected, then fine-tune settings and procedures to deliver a high-performance building. Here are just a few examples:

• Identify simultaneous heating and cooling that’s wasting energy
• Detect unnecessary lighting – indoor and perimeter
• Discover water leaks by evaluating usage anomalies
• Reduce equipment downtime with proactive alerts before components fail
• Design a peak demand mitigation program with time-of-day data
• Highlight emerging problems before they cause occupant discomfort
• Extend equipment life with improved preventative maintenance schedules
• Identify opportunities to reduce operating hours for key building systems
• Track costs, analyze trends for more accurate budget projections
• Develop an accurate baseline to support Energy Savings Agreement negotiations
• Evaluate new renewable sources to ensure they are performing as expected.

And, that’s just the beginning. With your insight into client goals and operations, we can make sure energy savings materialize as you’ve proposed, and then last over the long haul.

Build Your Brand with Custom Alerts, Reports, Training
With our sophisticated tools at your disposal, you can help clients track resources in a single building, an entire property or multiple locations. You can design custom alerts and reports, and add your company’s logo, to reinforce your brand.

Multiple display devices and tailored user interface options provide the right information to the right users to identify patterns, anomalies, or peaks and valleys. Tools provide:

• User-configurable Alerts and Alarms, sent via email, text or a BMS;
• Top Consumers for gas, water, electricity, dollar and carbon emissions;
• Comparison Reports between any items in the building/property model;
• Advanced Reports to stack charts for more in-depth analysis.

You can help clients get started with a practical sustainability program by using Agilewaves to engage tenants and create behavioral changes:

• Carbon Diets: Put an item (i.e., sensor, room, property) on a diet, a carbon diet. This allows you to set carbon foot print limits, and alerts you when the diet has been exceeded. Or, be alerted if the cost of operating an appliance (plugged into a specific outlet) goes above a certain amount in a day.
• Kiosk Designs: For multi-tenant buildings, you can design an information kiosk to display results in a business lobby or on a website. Then use your kiosk design to help your client with contests or awards to engage energy consumers in conservation programs.

Plus, your training deliverables can take on a whole new dimension, going beyond traditional O&M manuals for building staff. Now they can fine-tune systems to truly optimize building performance – a win for you and your client.

Become an Energy Management “Sentinel” with Remote Monitoring
With remote access to real-time resource utilization and 2-way integration with control systems, Agilewaves allows you to create a virtual command center, and stay on after your project is completed.

Available from anywhere on the internet, Agilewaves allows you to be an extension of onsite building staff. You can monitor energy and water use patterns, detect problems and respond to alerts for multiple sites – all from a virtual command center.

Now that’s value-add, and an ideal extension to your services portfolio.

Supercharge Your Control System Installations
Designed with interoperability in mind, Agilewaves’ open architecture supports easy integration with existing building equipment or control systems, using industry protocols such as BACnet.

A long-term data store can compliment control system capabilities or address limitations. Then by integrating control system data with a broader range of measurement points for all resources (including renewables), you can provide a “whole building” solution. And put your company on the cutting edge of high performance buildings.

We invite you to explore our core technology foundation – Common Data System – with standard interfaces to accelerate extensions to specific applications.

Team Up with Agilewaves
We think next-generation energy management systems like Agilewaves will be the cornerstone for high-performance Green Buildings, and we have the most advanced, flexible platform for you to build on. Contact us now to find out how you can become a trusted Green Building Advisor by working with Agilewaves.

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Key Resources
Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, (LBNL, July 2009)
Savings Persist with Monitoring-Based Commissioning (California Energy Commission)
Monitoring-based Commissioning,: Benchmarking Analysis (LBNL, 2009)