I-Corps: Energy conservation network software that simultaneously audits, monitors, and manages energy use in buildings in real-time

I-Corps：节能网络软件，可同时实时审核、监控和管理建筑物的能源使用情况

• 批准号: 2227513
• 负责人: Sukumar Kamalasadan
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-15 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2227513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Energy; conservation; network; software

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the potential development of an energy conservation network software for improved energy management of commercial buildings. Buildings account for nearly 40% of the US's total energy consumption. The proposed technology is software that simultaneously audits, monitors, and manages a building’s energy use and its distributed energy resources in real-time. The auditing application periodically computes a comprehensive audit analysis based on the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) standard, then automatically recommends potential energy savings measures. The monitoring application could provide device-level and aggregated real-time measurements of all building power-consuming equipment. The management application could accurately forecast building thermal comforts and optimizes building operational power demands for efficient load shedding plans and demand response activities. In addition, the applications are designed for easy control of all Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in any building. These functionalities may create opportunities for energy savings, efficiency gains, and incentivized building–grid operations, which may benefit utility providers and consumers. This I-Corps project is based on the potential development of an energy conservation network software that may improve the energy management of commercial buildings. The proposed technology includes three functionalities including an auditing functionality using pattern recognition to determine anomalies in building equipment operation and a database of major equipment and appliance manufacturers to recommend replacements and compute potential savings. Management functionality is based on an advanced building thermal dynamics model and a model-predictive optimization algorithm that may predict hour ahead thermal comforts and optimal temperature setpoints as well as a simplified display of predicted building zone temperature. The monitoring functionality employs smart equipment sensors in a configurable mesh design to potentially provide real-time, device-level and aggregated monitoring of equipment data using a simplified internet-based communication architecture that eliminates proprietary equipment within the building automation system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是能够改善商业建筑能源管理的能源保护网络软件的潜在开发。建筑物几乎占美国总能源消耗的40％。拟议的技术是简单地审核，监视和管理建筑物的能源使用及其分布式能源资源的软件。审计应用程序定期计算基于ASHRAE（美国供暖，冷藏和空调工程师）标准的全面审计分析，然后自动建议进行潜在的节能测量。监视应用程序可以提供设备级别和汇总的实时测量，这些设备所有建筑功能设备。管理应用程序可以准确地预测建筑物舒适度，并优化建筑物的运营能力需求，以实现有效的负载计划和需求响应活动。此外，这些应用程序旨在轻松控制任何建筑物中的所有分布式能源（DER）。这些功能可能会为节能，效率提升和激励建筑物 - 机芯运营创造机会，这可能使公用事业提供者和消费者受益。该I-Corps项目基于能源保护网络软件的潜在开发，该软件可以改善商业建筑的能源管理。拟议的技术包括三个功能，包括使用模式识别的审核功能来确定建筑设备操作中的异常情况以及主要设备和设备制造商的数据库，以建议替换并计算潜在的节省。管理功能基于先进的建筑热动力学模型和模型预测优化算法，该算法可能可以预测前一小时的热舒适度和最佳温度设定点以及简化的预测建筑区域温度。 The monitoring functionality employees smart equipment sensors in a configurable mesh design to potentially provide real-time, device-level and aggregated monitoring of equipment data using a simplified internet-based communication architecture that eliminates proprietary equipment within the building automation system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed precious of support through evaluation using the Foundation's Intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.