Intelligent Insights : Efficient Buildings

Tag: BMS

  • TRACKING ROOM AIR TEMPERATURE SETPOINT

    TRACKING ROOM AIR TEMPERATURE SETPOINT

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    Peter Driussi
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    THE ASSET ASSESS APPROACH One question that comes up very often is: Can you describe how the Asset Assess approach to fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) is different from other vendors? This is best explained with an example. Let’s look at the most commonly flagged diagnostic in our system (aside from sensor errors):  Room Air…

  • “DO YOU DO A.I.?” WHAT ACTUALLY POWERS BUILDING ANALYTICS.

    “DO YOU DO A.I.?” WHAT ACTUALLY POWERS BUILDING ANALYTICS.

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    Peter Driussi
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    When we explain the Asset Assess FDD analytics platform to prospective clients and partners, one curious question is popping up more and more: Do you do A.I.? Since artificial intelligence (A.I.) has gathered lots of buzz and transformed other industries in recent years, these types of questions are understandable. And our answer? It’s an emphatic YES……

  • YOU CAN’T ADDRESS INDOOR AIR QUALITY WITHOUT FDD

    YOU CAN’T ADDRESS INDOOR AIR QUALITY WITHOUT FDD

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    Peter Driussi
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    Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) was important before the COVID-19 pandemic, but now it has become mission-critical to keeping occupants safe as more people return to the workplace. Building owners are looking for easy ways to improve IAQ performance and instead are met with a proliferation of new IAQ technologies – most with big promises and…

  • POOR QUALITY DATA IN ≠ POOR QUALITY DATA OUT

    POOR QUALITY DATA IN ≠ POOR QUALITY DATA OUT

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    Peter Driussi
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    When building owners invest in Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) Software, they expect results. But those results don’t come if the FDD rules produce false faults due to messy data. Real data from real buildings is imperfect at best. Data points are missing, mislabelled, or unlabelled. Data points that mean one thing on one piece…