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Leveraging Custom SkySpark Dashboards to Improve Building Operation and Save Energy

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SkySpark collects and stores data from any number of sources and provides an open analytics platform that can be programmed to automatically make sense of the data and provide insights on a building or a portfolio of buildings. This open platform can be customized to a great extent, allowing for custom fault detection algorithms, dashboards, […]

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Cold office? Using SkySpark to relieve occupant discomfort and find energy savings

Building Analytics, Building Controls, Retro-Commissioning, SkySpark / By

A big focus for maintenance staff is minimizing complaints to relieve occupant discomfort. People who are consistently too hot or too cold make it known and we’ve seen many buildings where the entire building operation was off kilter due to the needs of a few, or to prevent complaints on a few days out of

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What is your building’s HVAC control logic trying to tell you?

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As energy engineers looking for potential energy savings during energy audits, retro-commissioning investigations and ongoing commissioning, we typically use trend reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of control logic. Trends offer a window into what the controls accomplished in the past. They need to be interpreted based on context to draw conclusions on the control logic

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