Michigan Energy Forum

1. Balancing BEMS
(Building Energy Management Systems)
Michigan Energy Forum - April 2, 2015

2. Advocating for Michigan’s
Integrated Energy Efficiency Industry
Brindley Byrd
Executive Director
www.MEECA.info

3. Why BEMS?
• Realize Significant Energy Waste Reduction
▫ Commercial & Residential Structures

4. Why BEMS?
• Realize Significant Energy Waste Reduction
▫ Commercial & Residential Structures
• Energy Visualization
• Energy Analysis
▫ Real Time
▫ Automated
• Significant Business Growth
▫ Technology Companies
▫ Installation Opportunities
▫ Response Protocols

5. Balancing BEMS
Data
Collection
Budget

7. Source: www.indiamart.com

8. Tonight’s Panelists
1. Roger Wisely
Energy Management
Specialist
2. Dan Niewirowicz
Co-Founder & CEO
3. Chris Bonzheim
General Manager

9. Building Management
Overview
Lund Food Holdings, Inc

10. From U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. EPA.
 The primary objective of an effective
energy management plan is to
eliminate or minimize energy waste
while maintaining a comfortable and
safe environment. Effective energy
management planning generally
consists of three basic elements.
 Purchasing clean and reliable
energy at the lowest cost.
 Replacing old equipment and
systems with new, efficient
technologies.
 Operating energy consuming
equipment efficiently.
 The energy management plan should
include and equally emphasize all three
of these elements. Operating energy-
consuming equipment efficiently is
the most underrated and least
understood element, yet it has high
potential for savings with the least
capital outlay.

11. Centralized Building Management System
Benefits of whole-building design
include:
 Reduced energy use
 Reduced maintenance and capital
costs
 Reduced environmental impact
 Increased occupant comfort and
health
 Increased employee productivity
 Remote Access & Control
 Power Monitoring & Load shedding
– Consumption Forecasting
empowering
energy
efficiency

12. Primary System Controls
 Lighting
– Exterior; Control with
light level sensor.
Provides outside light
during the appropriate
conditions.
– Interior; Daylight
Harvesting & Occupancy
Controls or time of day
schedules
 HVAC
– Programmable set points
for day/night and
summer/winter
conditions.
– Set point setbacks
through schedule or
demand control
– Controls outside air
dampers for
economization control.
Provides energy free
cooling.
 Refrigeration Control
– Less compressor run
time produced by
tighter temperature
control.
– Control set point shift
based on a time
schedule or kW
demand control.
– Anti-Sweat Door Heat
controls.
 Irrigation Control
– Programmable set
points for day/night
and summer/winter
conditions.
– Rain sensor
• Load Shedding
– Set point setbacks
through demand
control

13. Examples of Installed Equipment
The main controller is
installed with or without
HIM.
A panel that includes all the
relay boards and monitoring
equipment.
Sensors are being placed
outside to record ambient
temperature and light levels.
Control boards are
installed in the HVAC
equipment.
Temperature and Humidity
Sensors are placed
throughout the building.
CT’s are typically Installed for
power monitoring and load
shedding.

14. Breakdown of Energy Savings
(Percent of Total)
30%
37%
5%
28%
Refrigeration
Irrigation
HVAC
Lighting
Total Estimated Energy Savings
20%+

15. Remote User Software
 Remote Access Software
 Displays Real Time Conditions,
Alarms and System
Performance
 Remote Set Point Adjustments
and Programming
 Graphic Display Allows Quick
and Easy Troubleshooting
 Retention of Historical Data.

16. Equipment Status/Performance Screens
 Energy Waste Can Be Tracked And Avoided

17. Energy Performance Measurement
 Establish your base line.
 Track your energy use at a facility-level.
 Captured data should help you manage
energy and reduce energy bills.
 Adjusted to account for changes in weather
from year to year and changes in operating
conditions over time.

18. Delivering the Best in Energy Management

19. NextDevice, LLC.
Balancing BEMS
Thursday April 2nd, 2015
Dan Niewirowicz, CEO

20. What Is NextDevice?
• NextDevice is a nimble product design,
engineering, manufacturing and
distribution company specializing in the
development of intelligent hardware
devices and software solutions that
address current and future needs in the
automation & integration process enabling
“The Internet of Everything”.

21. What Is BEMS?
• Building Energy Management System
(BEMS) are computer based systems that
manage, control and monitor building
technical systems.
• According to Navigant Research, the
global BEMS market is expected to reach
$2.4 billion by 2015 and grow to $10.8
billion by 2024 (Navigant: 1Q 2015)

22. Integration:
Connecting all the
technical systems
in a facility together
under one common
platform so data can be
aggregated and made
available to a
Building Energy
Management System
(BEMS)
Integrate

23. Visualization:
Graphical User Interface
of the BEMS data so it
can be easily interpreted
by many people
regardless of their
technological skill level,
used to view status of
the integrated systems
and identify opportunities
for energy savings.
Visualize

24. Optimization:
Tuning the facility systems and sequence of operation to
achieve the most efficient, functional operation as possible,
reducing energy consumption while increasing comfort
levels and extending the life cycle of these systems.
Optimize

25. Building Energy Management Systems
BEMS
Integrate Visualize
Optimize

26. Building Energy Management Systems
BEMS
Integrate Visualize
ACTION
Optimize

27. How Much Data Is Too Much?
• 50 billion connected devices by 2020
• Metering: Building, Sub-metering: Each
floor? Suite? Each office, cubicle, plug!
• 15 minute data polling? 35,040 per point
annually!
• 3 million Sq. Ft. and 1.2 million points of
data equates to 42,048,000,000 points of
data annually!

28. Intelligent Building Strategy:
• You don’t know what you don’t know:
Integrate everything.
• Optimize sequence of operation and
system performance.
• Once a baseline is established use a less
taxing metric to monitor performance

29. NextDevice, LLC.
Thank You!
Dan Niewirowicz, CEO
dan@nextdevice.us

30. MICHIGAN ENERGY FORUM
April 2, 2015
Presented by:
Chirs Bonzheim
Balancing BEMS

31. Presentation Outline
ControlNET
The Future of Controller Sequences and
Programming
Creating Smart Buildings through System
Integration

32. Presentation Outline
Dashboards – Know Your Audience
Data Mining, Distribution and Action
Mobile Devices – Next Generation MMI

33. Enables Employment “Best in Class” purchase strategy
Empower Owners to Break the Proprietary Chain
Integrate Diverse Systems and Devices Regardless of
Manufacturer, Protocol or System Type
About ControlNET – Integration Proposition

34. The Controller of the Future??
Configurable vs. Programmable
Simple vs. Complex
Research Project 1455
RP-1455 initiated in 2008
Guideline 36
High Performance Sequences of
Operation
Future RPs

35. Creating a Smart Building; what can be Integrated?
Heat Recovery Chillers
HVAC Equipment
Variable Frequency Drives
Power Monitoring
Generators
Lighting
Card Access
Fire Alarm
Security Cameras
Irrigation System
Laboratory – Phoenix, Aircuity
Geothermal Energy Chassis

36. MS Exchange Server - MS Outlook Integration
MS Active Directory – MS Sign-in Integration
Meco-shade - Sunshade Control – Custom Interface
Lab Equipment Monitoring – Cryogenic, etc.
Weather Data
Security Bollards
Proprietary Control Systems
Creating a Smart Building; what can be Integrated?

37. Dashboards – Know your Audience
Energy
Cumulative – Electric, Gas
Water Used
Solar Gain
Social Awareness
Go Green
Electricity Carbon Footprint
Metric Tons of CO2

38. Dashboards – Know your Audience
Social Awareness
Translating Building
CO2e
Building Carbon
Footprint vs. Baseline
Executive
Performance Tool
Justify Funding

39. Tenant Billing
Awareness Promotes
Responsibility
Distribution of Energy Cost
Data Mining, Distribution and Action
Load Shedding
Ease of Use Promotes Use
Shed load by time
Shave peak demand

40. Mobile Devices
HTML5 – HyperText Markup Language
– Revision 5
HTML5 Objective
Standard language with support for
Mobile Devices.
JAVA Plug-in free
Mobile Access – Smart Phone/Tablet Access