Smart Buildings: Plan, Deploy, Operate

Predictive energy management improves the energy efficiency of buildings by anticipating and reacting to changing weather and solar irradiance conditions in real time. Because weather and the consequent heating/cooling loads can vary significantly throughout the day, the impact of intelligent prediction is significant.

Our Predictive Building Control platform, EntroPBC™, typically reduces HVAC energy costs an average of 10% to 25% while improving tenant thermal comfort and shrinking the building’s carbon footprint. Some customers report achieving savings as high as 40%!

The only prerequisites for implementing EntroPBC™ are a digital building automation system and metered electrical and thermal energy consumption for the building.

Low Risk Approach

• Zero upfront costs
• Zero hardware purchases required
• Service fees are a share of savings actually delivered

Unique Features

• Operational weather and solar irradiation forecasting at building site and building walls, in real time
• Solar irradiation forecasts for building roof and walls, all obstructions to sunlight considered, on clear-sky and cloudy days
• Artificial intelligence-based energy models forecast building energy use in real time
• EntroPBC™ actually develops multiple building energy use scenarios based on real time conditions, and selects the option maximizing thermal comfort and minimizing energy use
• Continuous learning will sharpen EntroPBC™ control of your buildings’ response to weather conditions

Step 1: Forecast weather at building site and building surfaces (walls, roof) in real time. We utilize in-house numerical weather prediction models and access to weather observation networks.

Step 2: Model building energy use in forecast weather and occupancy conditions in real time. EntroPBC™ utilizes an artificial intelligence-based building energy model reflecting the relationship between building operating conditions (such as ambient weather and occupancy) and building energy “response” of the building to these conditions.

Step 3: Produce set points to optimize building energy performance. The optimization process is focused on maintaining thermal comfort in all individual thermal zones of a building while minimizing the overall energy use and costs.