Transcript 'Building Automation and the Cloud'

"Building Automation and
the Cloud"
3:00 pm Tuesday January 26
Toby Considine and Ken Sinclair
Session 5
Collaborative Energy: Informed
Communities of Building Systems
Who are we? and
Why are we here?
Toby Considine
TC9, Inc
plus most important our contributing editor
so you can read about what he speaks online @
www.automatedbuildings.com
and I am
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner
Collaborative Energy: Informed
Communities of Building Systems
Collaborative energy relies on clear price signals
and market interactions to engage the
occupants of the end nodes in active
participation in energy. Today, early forms of
collaborative energy are in operation, the result
of custom engineering and proprietary signals.
In a few places, these buildings receive signals
form OpenADR (automated demand response).
OpenADR is a hybrid signal, halfway between
managed and collaborative energy.
Building Automation gets Griddy while
colliding with the corporate Enterprise
Smart Grid needs the cloud
The value in Smart Grids comes
from aligning supply and demand
Old Grid
• Smart generation—predictable and reliable
• Dumb consumption—uncontrolled and
stochastically managed
• Innovation comes from the core
• Arbitrage is most expensive service of the
old grid
– Price and Availability
New Grid
• Dumb Generation—any number of
unpredictable and intermittent sources
• Smart Consumption—consumers adjust to
dynamically changing supplies
Every end node of a smart grid is a
micro-grid.
• Microgrids that are actively managed are
more valuable
• Microgrids may encapsulate additional end
nodes.
Someone has to manage the end
nodes
• Managed Energy
– Direct load control and grid-based intelligence
– Today’s utility-based model
• Collaborative Energy
– End nodes are full participants in matching
demand to supply
– Higher service and better amenities
Market-oriented interfaces of the
grid
• Price and Product Communication
– EMIX
• Schedules and Intervals
– WS-Calendar
• Energy Usage
• Markets and Interactions
– Energy Interoperation
Reducing integration overhead
• Device Discovery and Profiles
– WS-DD, WS-DP
• Building Information Models (BIM)
– Energy models commission the design
– COBIE
– Continuous commissioning to the energy model
• GBXML
– From model to interface
Autonomous Load Services
Eliminate barriers,
• Smart grids are smart because they
reward innovation
– Scale and mission limit innovation from the
core
– The end nodes can innovate because they can
accept risk
Buildings systems monitor service
provided and energy use
• Sensors and Services
• May be in the Clouds
Microgrids are aware of the
motives of their inhabitants
• Industrial Processes
• Business Schedules
• Home Life and Values
Building-based smart grids support
consumer values
• Privacy
• Preservation of 4th
•
Amendment
protections
Autonomy
Building based systems better support performance and customer
values than top-down grid management can. This service is worth
something…
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DISCUSSION