emerging technologies to keep on your radar
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Mike Bailey, Director of Engineering Services at Ecova provides a peek into emerging technologies that are either already available in the marketplace or will be in the very near future to manage your building’s energy consumption.TRANSCRIPT
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TO KEEP ON YOUR RADARMike Bailey PE, CEMDirector Engineering Services, Ecova
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Beware of Snake Oil & Silver Bullets!
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STATUS: Not ReadyCOST: Single rack $40k - $60K
Additional Information:
• Technology works; numbers don’t
• 40 kWh of electricity
• Need 10X capacity improvement
• Plus 10X cost reduction
Point of Use Battery Storage
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Lighting
Rethinking How We Think About Lighting!
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Technology Limited Design
What if that constraint
went away?
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Simulate Natural Light
Variable Light Levels AND COLOR
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Light only where and when needed
Individually Controllable
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Natural light harvesting
LED supplemental light, provides custom controls
NREL Net Zero Office
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Not your grandfathers point light source!
Expensive but costs are falling and lots of research
Organic LED (OLED)
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HVAC
Yes, there’s more!
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Zonal Reheat System
Traditional HVAC:
• Move large volumes of air
• Simultaneous heating and cooling
• Energy Intensive
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Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Multi-Split Heat Pumps
VRF / Multi-splits / DOAS
Dedicated Outside Air Systems (DOAS)
Radiant SystemsChilled Beams
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VRF Enables Internal Heat Recovery
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VRF Enables Full Cooling
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VRF Enables Full Heating
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Fresh Air & Daylight
Natural Ventilation
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Old Saw-Tooth Roofs: Great Natural Light & Ventilation
Sometimes We Need to Relearn…
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• Look where Google is investing• Robots• Google Glass• Nest• Computer driven cars• Android good investment,
Motorola – yet to be seen• Where is this going?
• EXPLOSION of data – we have seen nothing yet
• “Augmented Reality”• Sensors everywhere
• Every powered fixture• Appliances• Passive & energy harvesting
• “Living” building systems
Final Thoughts… Future Forecast
“Internet of Things” (IOT) – data from everything
Available to anyone, anywhere on multiple devices
