Discovering Actionable Insights from Your Building Analytics and Performance

1Proprietary & Confidential

Webinar

Discovering Actionable Insights

September 2016

Proprietary & Confidential

Agenda for Today

• Introductions

• Ralf VonSosen, VP of Marketing Lucid

• Duane Kubischta P.E., Sr. Engineer kW Engineering

• Building management & intelligence

• Creating actionable insights

• Deep Dive: Heat maps deliver actionable insights

• Questions

Duane Kubischta

Ralf VonSosen

Better Buildings. Better Business.SM

Introduction

Proprietary & ConfidentialPresentation Title

What was once about the movement of electrons, is now about the movement of information.

Proprietary & ConfidentialPresentation Title

Companies, and individuals, who fail to embrace the insights within their buildings will be left behind.


What does this mean for the industry? More than energy.

Aggressively tackling the elimination of the wasted energy in

commercial buildings.

30%

Using connected facilities to drive business growth and spur employee

productivity.

> utilities

Not letting energy savings disappear in the first 6-12 months due to lack of monitoring & action.

50%


Leaders are embracing the power Building Intelligence

Centralize

Unify historic and real-time data across your buildings portfolio.

Discover

Unlock and share insights by visualizing data trends.

Improve

Make decisions, track performance and verify results.


Centralize: Move beyond silos and spreadsheets

ERPSystems

Asset Mgmt.

Utility data BMSIoT MeteringAssets

BMSSensors

Property Mgmt.


Discover: Visualize data into actionable insights

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

SUSTAINABILITYMANAGEMENT

FINANCE & PLANNING

PORTFOLIOMANAGEMENT


Improve: Tap the power of open data systems

Exclusive Service Provider

Proprietary

Proprietary software & diagnostics

Closed hardware/system

s

Self-service

Open

Service Providers

Openhardware

Open systems

Open utilities

•Resource Optimization

•Compliance Reporting

•Finance & Planning

•Occupant Engagement

•Portfolio Management


The most comprehensive business intelligence platform

for building operations.

Lucid BuildingOS centralizes commercial building data, and makes it easy to discover new

insights to improve performance.

About LucidCommercial

CommercialReal Estate

Government

Education

500+customers

11,000+buildings

1+ billion square feet

1+ billiondatapoints/month


Data Visualization


What is not working today?

Calculating, tracking and sharing building performance metrics is extraordinarily time-consuming.

Lack of a unified master data set

Lack of real-time metrics

Lack of ease of use & administration

Lack of collaborative interface


Comprehensive: Unified historic & real-time portfolio-wide data

Simple & configurable:Intuitive to create targeted content

Easy to share: Via many channels, formats, and time intervals

What is working today?


Establishing the Actionable Insights

• Set specific goals. What is the question you are answering?• Cost reduction, sustainability initiatives, financial planning, tenant comfort, etc.

• Establish specific metric values and benchmarks, • Determine if a metric’s value is meaningful, and decide if the insight is worth

tracking. • Good question to ask: If the metric was at a certain level, how’s it going to impact

your decision making and actions?• Unclear answer? Probably an interesting fact, but not an actionable insight.

• Who is your audience?• Operations, management, consultants, occupants, etc.• Different needs• Different ways of absorbing information


Actionable insights deliver value across the organization

Reduce consumption

Verify performance

Forecasting

Identifying projects

Compliance reporting

Engage occupants

Capital decisions

Track performance

Budgeting

Streamline operations

Tenant management

Occupancy planning

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

SUSTAINABILITYMANAGEMENT

FINANCE & PLANNING

PORTFOLIOMANAGEMENT


Deep Dive: Heat Maps

kW Engineering

Oakland, CA (HQ)Los AngelesSan DiegoSalt Lake CityChicagoNew York

• Portfolio Energy Strategy• EnergyStar Certification• Integrated Audits• Energy Modeling• Project Implementation• Retro-Commissioning• Commissioning• Measurement & Verification (M&V)• Remote Energy Management• Energy Incentive Programs• Staff Training

Energy Geeks We get CFOs and technicians excited about delivering energy savings at the meter and on the bill

ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

kW Engineering Offices and Commercial

Higher Education

K-12 Schools

Data Centers

Laboratories

Industrial

Retail

Utilities

Hospitals

100+customers

2,000+buildings

45Engineers

6Offices


Looking at Performance using the Optimization Tools• First four Building Optimization apps are very powerful. • Heat map is my favorite.

• So we’re going to start there.


Heat Maps Clearly Show Schedule • Daily operation from 7am to 3pm – consistent, good• July closed• Unoccupied weekends: Green rows - good• See temperature correlation


Heat Map - Scheduling Error • Thermostat in override for August


Tips Along the Way• Open two windows at once for comparisons• Use Tooltips

• Hover to get more info for a specific day

• Focus on the averages and the outliers• Get scale and building name on any screen grab


Heat Map - Day Anomalies• Wed Sep 23 (Pop up covers the extended bar)

• Welcome Back Day?


Heat Map - Day Anomalies• Holidays

• Veterans Day• Fall Break in late November, Lucky kids!


Heat Map - Day Anomalies• Very flat for winter break.

• That’s great, everything is off. • Not seeing heating on electric profile.

• Natural gas heating.


Heat Map - Unoccupied Anomalies• See Warmer off-hour colors in October• Highlighted by comparison to baseload.


Heat Map - Unoccupied Anomalies• Evaluate if off unoccupied baseload is varying significantly


Heat Map – Color versus Magnitude• Beware of the scale in the heat map• Coloring may look good, but what is the difference between high and low.• Green means lowest usage, but that does not mean it’s a good level of usage• Base to Peak Ratio is the fraction of base load to peak load


Heat Map – Other Examples• Compressed Air, with increase in production


Heat Map – Other Examples• Night lighting

• Retrofitted


Heat Map – Other Examples• Sub-metered lab load.


Heat Map – Other Examples• Sub-metered A/C unit for 24/5 operation with some weekends enabled.


Load Profile• This is showing the same thing as the heat maps!• Easier to see the base to peak ratio• Start big, the whole year • High days are likely peak cooling demand • Low days may be holidays - these are included in the average• Minimum load shape typically represents lighting


Load Profile – Other Examples

http://eis.lbl.gov/downloads/energy-information-handbook.pdf


Final Thoughts• Get comfortable with these graphic tools

• Practice• It can be fun!

• Overlap your viewing range when you look next• You know your building best

• Get the visualizations in the hands of those who know and can take action


Q&A and Next Steps

Lucid:www.lucidconnects.comEmail: [email protected] us on Twitter @lucidconnects

kW Engineering:www.kw-engineering.comDuane Kubischta, [email protected](510) 229-5631

Thank You!

Data & Analytics

Discovering Actionable Insights from Your Building Analytics and Performance