Applications
- Building energy efficiency
Background
The Retro-Commissioning Sensor Suitcase is an innovative technological solution developed through a Department of Energy (DOE) national lab-industry partnership to improve a building’s operating costs, comfort, and energy performance.
Technology Overview/ Abstract
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed software to accompany the Retro-Commissioning Sensor Suitcase. The sensors are distributed throughout the building and are returned to the suitcase for analysis. The software then generates building energy efficiency recommendations, which would normally require a significant investment of time and money from building owners who hire energy-efficiency experts.
The software identifies four new energy efficiency opportunities:
- Plug load energy savings
- Improvements in system operation schedule
- Improvements in “setbacks” for commercial buildings on nights and weekends (allowing temperatures to drift to higher or lower temperatures when building are unoccupied)
- Reduction of peak load
DEVELOPMENT STAGE: Proven principle
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://eta.lbl.gov/news/sensor-suitcase-wins-award-excellence
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPERS:
Samuel Fernandes
Yimin Chen
Guanjing Lin
STATUS: Copyrighted.
OPPORTUNITIES: Available for licensing.
SEE THESE OTHER BERKELEY LAB TECHNOLOGIES IN THIS FIELD:
Joint invention with PNNL: Retro Commissioning Sensor Suitcase
