Business students worked on a fictitious energy dashbaord company and created the attached marketing plan. This document includes insight about potential behavior change strategies for the campus.
Robby Bauer and Morgan Johnston reviewed the status of the real-time energy meter installations, funded by the SSC and campus. The original plan was to install real-time electric, steam, and chiled water meters in the Housing facilities in support of the Campus Conservation Nationals. The electric meters are all installed, but we are recommending that the steam and chilled water meters be put on hold indefinitely in favor of installing electric meters in additional buildings.
Slides will play on all 3 working digital displays at BIF. Unfortunately, we're having hardware issues with the display facing the Sixth Street entrance. The IlliniEnergy images will take up the entire interactive region of the digital display. However, the images will not take up the space on the footer and right-hand portion of the display, as we already have student groups scheduled to run information on those spaces.
Images will run through December 20. We would be happy to keep a small number of the slides in the rotation after December 20.
The display ppts have been distributed and can go on as a static display. We than the Comminication office of our college for moving forward and we will be ready for testing when the students come back Dec 2.
Mike Marquissee and Morgan Johnston met with Madhu Viswanathan's team. The students were Doug, Julie, Ophelia, Tim, Colin. Colin is the point person and James scholar.
They said their goal is to raise awareness with students about the power going to buildings and how we could be more efficient and more sustainable. They have gathered feedback from some students about the current website (illinienergy.illinois.edu).
Mike explained that Illinois has had a successful conservation program. We have hit all the low hanging fruit, including retro commissioning, tightened facility standards, building controls replacements, and better monitoring. We have already reaped the benefit of those major projects. Next phase is to identify and find ways to influence behvaior change... How can we make people aware and how can we make people commit to... Get them behind our goals and use the tools?
Deliverable from Madhu's team would be a website, a display app, and a business plan for implementing the dashboard. First, just getting a website to try it out. More accessible and understanding. Tips on how it works.
The students will learn by doing. Also a display going in Wohlers or BIF. Mike brought examples of three versions of similar websites. Arizona State University uses Lucid and they have an extra section that shows what can be done to reduce energy in a bedroom or an office. Penn State uses Excelsius and runs their dashboard in flash... It has dials, et cetera.
Our website uses Html5, soap commands, scrape websites. F&S can provide the source code for our dashboard to access the source data. Mike's team hasn't tried it yet, but they know the data is accessible. Tim and Mike can work together to get the data.
Morgan noted that the audience needs to include faculty and staff, not just students. Madhu agreed. They are just starting with the students.
Doug asked what sort of information should be included on a poster. Morgan said that the Energy Liaison presentations would be good starting points. They are on the iCAP Portal, which the students had not yet seen.
The website design has multiple options, which the team will evaluate and suggest best layouts. Also, the physical display itself will be considered. BIF has a proprietary display. Also the campus has digital signage options. Typically it is a continuous display, rather than interactive. Mike said F&Sdoes not have the data set up to push it out, but we can give access for it to be pulled out.
Todd Sweet from the College of Business communications office joined us. They are looking into developing mobile apps for the college. One could be an App about energy consumption in BIF and such. Students are looking at how the website can be designed. Also what would the display potentially have?
Instep sent a letter to the University confirming that the Energy Dashboard is an innovative project. The letter is attached.
The ECI and SSC identified the following list as the building priorities for the metter upgrades.
1) Residence Halls: Allen/LAR, FAR/PAR, ISR, SDRP
2) Illini Union
3) ARC
4) CRCE
5) Siebel Center
6) BIF
7) Loomis Lab
8) English
9) Psychology
We received the invoice for the software and license for the Energy Dashboard project through August 31. The next licensing period will be from September 1 through December 31. Beginning January 1, 2013 licensing will be on an annual track. The software for the Energy Dashboard from Instep will cost $40,000, with the discount given to the University. The annual support for the Dashboard will be $6,750.
A presentation about the Energy Dashboard was given at the Behavior Change / Energy Efficiency Conference on May 22, 2012: http://www.igencc.org/bhc12.speakers.
Bryan Johnson, from University Housing's Sustainability Council, has reported that residence halls PAR and FAR have individual metering setup, but Blaisdell Hall's metering is connected to the mechancial room and dining hall. LAR and Allen have individual metering, but the dining hall feeds into both dining halls. Information about metering in Busey-Evans is still needed.
The projects committee in the US Green Building Council student chapter is working on a "Green Your Dorm" project encouraging dorms to save energy and water. The SSC has approved funding to put individual metering in dorms. The USGBC chapter made the suggestion that Ikenberry Commons resdence halls be the first to receive meter upgrades.
The Energy Dashboard Project will be a highlighted project at the Behavior Change/ Energy Efficiency Conference.
Illinois Energy Dashboard project, collaboration with the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) and the Department of Facilities and Services (F & S).
This project has been in the works for over a year, with a commitment to provide clearly visible, usable and understandable information to students and staff of chosen University buildings about energy consumption (electrical, chilled water and steam). We are working with InStep Software, Inc., the University of Illinois vendor for the management and predictive analytics software for energy use on campus. We are now in Phase One of implementation, the design of the look and content of our public Energy Dashboard site, testing and the public launching of the first version of the Ilini Energy dashboard (Phase two will support the installation of real time meters in about 10 – 12 builings).
This is one in many of the continuing efforts across campus to pull together and unify the significant educational (and research) efforts of departments and Colleges in reducing negative human impact and enhancing sustainability locally, nationally and globally.
This project is intended to have a threefold effect:
· Provide real time information to develop awareness and cultural/behavioral changes in how energy is used (not only in the buildings featured but in all aspects of life).
· Provide information for faculty and students in research.
· Provide details for building staff to better use resources and energy, and make plans for building adaption in ways that may decrease usage over time.
There 24 buildings currently on the Energy Dashboard. Information about electrical, heating, and cooling energy use is available on the website, but not every building has all three sources available at this point in the project.
The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Facilities and Services (F&S) are working in conjunction on the Energy Dashboard with funding from the Student Sustainability Committee. The SSC has set for responsibilities for each group to complete the project.
The Environmental Change Institute is to coordinate meetings with representatives of major stakeholder groups (ECI, SSC, F&S, etc.) for the purpose of development, communication and clarity concerning the scope of the project, funding expenditures, review of phases, and deliverables; coordinate selection of appropriate building for building metering system upgrades that will be providing real-time data to the dashboard display system, assuming that the connections are technically or technologically feasible; develop content for website, including incorporation of new buildings, with input from stakeholders; coordinate marketing, communications with stakeholders, and progress reports; and compose and develop a final project report with input from F&S and other stakeholders as required.
Facilities and Services responsibilities are implementing and launching the Energy Dashboard module; providing technical support for metering, direct digital connections and dashboard website; purchasing software and installing that software with funds designated in the SSC award letter; determining data connections, server needs, IITAA compliance issues for website; communicating regularly with ECI concerning implementation issues and progress updates; installing and connecting upgraded building metering systems; and determining technical feasibility of connecting building metering systems to Dashboard and supporting systems.
The SSC report also included a schedule extension.
ECI (Environmental Change Institute) provided Facilities and Services with a list of 25 potential buildings for real-time meter upgrades.
The energy dashboard for UIUC was launched Monday, December 5, 2011. The site provides data and information to students and staff about selected University building's energy consumption rate. Real-time energy use for electricity, heating (steam), and cooling (chilled water) are displayed.
College of Business students have been competing to come up with ideas for how to utilize the Energy Dashboard at the Business Instructional Facility. One of the recommendations they have developed is a real-time energy use display.
Spreadsheet showing the current status of real-time meter in selected buildings on campus.
This proposal seeks to install web-based display system for campus building energy consumption. The initial system will include information from 25 buildings as well as the Abbott power plant. Data will be available in real-time for buildings that have real-time metering, and monthly for other buildings; utilities included will be steam, chilled water and electricity. This project will also leverage funds from other project partners to make upgrades to building metering systems to provide real-time data for display and campus energy management use. Breakdown of funds is as follows: up to $50,000 for software purchase and install, up to $6750 for software maintenance, and up to $100,000 (this last portion in matching funds) for metering upgrades in initial buildings. Once the program is in place, ECI will work with project partners to arrange to display information on new or existing in-building displays as well as add information from other buildings. The Student Sustainability Committee is in favor of funding a grant in the amount of $156,750.
Sustainability committee award letter - Energy Displays and Metering.pdf
Sustainability committee award letter - Energy Displays and Metering.docx
Building Metering Status.xlsx Energy Dashboard Agreement.pdf InStep Energy Dahsboard Proposal_06_08_11.docx Potential List of 25 Buildings for display project.xlsx SSC Final Allocation Approval - Energy Displays and Metering.docx SSC Final Allocation Approval - Energy Displays and Metering.PDF SSC LTR Energy Displays and Metering_FINAL.docxsee file
