{"406741":{"#nid":"406741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech\u2019s Campus Gets \u2018Smart\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Smart Energy Campus Program uses Georgia Tech as a living laboratory and collects data from energy utility systems all over campus. Through collaboration among multiple campus departments, insights from this project will directly impact energy planning and consumption on campus in many ways, with the hope of making Tech\u2019s energy utility systems more efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ESmart Energy Campus is a joint sustainability research initiative with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL), and Georgia Tech Facilities Management. Beginning in 2013, the idea behind this project was to see if Georgia Tech researchers could be of use to Facilities by utilizing data analysis as well as modeling and simulation tools to evaluate and optimize different energy systems on Tech\u2019s campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cIt is extremely exciting to know that our team is supporting some of the most brilliant complex-system designers in the world,\u201d said Mark Demyanek, assistant vice president of Operations and Maintenance within Facilities Management. \u201cUsing our built environment as a living laboratory is a concept that is growing in higher ed, and I believe we at Georgia Tech are leading that growth in a thoughtful and responsible way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAlready, the Smart Energy Campus Program has created software for the Facilities Management Energy Conservation team to use when analyzing utility consumption trends and identifying potential energy efficiency projects. This project is designed to save labor hours, resources, and money by quickly identifying buildings that have unusually high energy usage, and then notifying teams to remedy the problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThe Smart Energy Campus Program is trying to take advantage of new modeling tools and large amounts of data to gain deeper insight and predict what can happen in terms of energy utilization on campus,\u201d said Scott Duncan, research engineer in the ASDL.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Facilities Management team consists of five people who meet with the research team several times per month. The research members on the team have included graduate students, research engineers, and postdoctoral fellows, all of whom serve as another set of eyes to interpret the data and help Facilities see problems in different ways. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThis program is revolutionary in getting access to data,\u201d said Duncan. \u201cIf we were doing this program for a community outside of campus, it would be difficult to get access to this much data.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWith so much data, the project continues to grow and the mission evolves. Building a predictive model of campus energy is no easy feat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe keep finding things to do and smaller side projects to work on,\u201d said Duncan. Through thermal network and electric grid modeling of campus, researchers will have greater agility and insight to see where energy is not being used efficiently, as well as analyze the effects of energy system technology upgrades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThrough the research effort, areas of improvement will be more visible and enable Facilities to channel resources toward areas of need. The ultimate vision of the research team is a \u201csmart\u201d system that will identify and react to problems and inefficiencies on its own, potentially without human assistance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWith any luck, one day soon, campuses across the world can use these tools to manage their facilities resources more efficiently,\u201d said Demyanek.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?"}],"uid":"27507","created_gmt":"2015-05-26 15:34:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Rachel Isaac","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"406711":{"id":"406711","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 1","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 1","file":{"fid":"76143","name":"holland_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2968317,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_1.jpg?itok=MwvJN2af"}},"406721":{"id":"406721","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 2","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 2","file":{"fid":"76144","name":"holland_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1099236,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_2.jpg?itok=rC4xJ7rg"}},"406731":{"id":"406731","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 3","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 3","file":{"fid":"76145","name":"holland_3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2136713,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_3.jpg?itok=3_ySFzGs"}}},"media_ids":["406711","406721","406731"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/","title":"Facilities"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126801","name":"aerospace systems design laboratory"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"3157","name":"Facilities"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERachel Isaac\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}