Use Cases from Last Spring's Transition Team

Use Cases

1.      
A tenant entering a lobby door after 
hours uses a card reader or keypad to gain access. Simultaneously, the HVAC 
starts and lighting turns on in the tenant's space so the tenant is safe and 
comfortable when entering their space. The building manager receives the 
necessary information to bill the tenant for use of the environmental systems 
from the time they walk in the door until they later leave the 
building.

2.      
A new employee is enrolled by human 
resources and a photo badge is printed. Simultaneously, that badge is activated 
as a credential in the access control system and parameters for when and where 
they can go are downloaded into controllers and readers.

3.      
An "after hours" security console 
provides graphical information of alarms for security and HVAC for emergency 
response at a multi-building office campus.

4.      
Dorm residents leave for the summer. 
Their card credentials are disabled - but not deleted - until they re-enroll for 
the fall semester. Student Housing, Administration, and Security all save many 
keystrokes.

5.      
The provosts office sets up class 
schedules and space assignments and the building automation systems 
automatically schedule the appropriate spaces for occupancy

6.      
A research building occupant can access 
real-time energy use data to take advantage of time-of-day energy rates when 
running major pieces of equipment

7.      
A secretary in a conference facility can 
have a desktop application the enables room scheduling and setpoint control for 
the entire conference facility without any interaction with Building Automation 
System staff

8.      
A professor in the School of Business can assign undergraduate research 
that easily makes use of near real-time data from energy producing and consuming 
equipment to develop business models

9.      
Load profile modeling can provide 
decision support for configuration and operation of energy producing utilities 
such as cogeneration and chilled water distribution systems

10.  Hourly electric rate structures analyzed in conjunction with 
weather models and load profiles enable optimization of combined cycle 
cogeneration plants and thermal storage systems

11.  HVAC analytical programs that rely on historical data for trend 
analysis and comparison with design models support maintenance and renewal and 
replacement programs and allows HVAC system optimization using rules-based 
analysis

12.  Construction documents generated using XML and SVG are able to 
become part of the real-time BAS operator interface after project 
completion

13.  GIS utility maps make use of real-time metering data to identify 
possible utility delivery problems before customers are impacted

14.  Utility billing systems are able to make use of multiple rate 
structures to allow customers to choose which best suits their operation without 
additional staff requirements since historical metering data can be 
automatically integrated into the bill

15.  IAQ information (both historical and real time) can be accessed 
directly by Environment Health and Safety to support healthy buildings and 
identify unhealthy ones-without the support of BAS staff

16.  A maintenance management system that interacts with a building 
control system can perform predictive maintenance and support run time 
maintenance models for complex systems-generating work requests that are based 
on real time information. If this same system is able to interact with central 
stores and procurement, it can also ensure parts and tools required for 
scheduled maintenance are available 

 

 

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