{"498911":{"#nid":"498911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ASDL Collaboration with ECE and GT Facilities Producing Interesting Results","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmart Energy Campus (SEC)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eis a joint sustainability research initiative that is bringing together GT-AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL),\u0026nbsp; the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Georgia Tech Facilities Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe idea behind SEC is to see if Georgia Tech researchers can help the Facilities staff to optimize different energy systems by utilizing tools that are routinely employed in research: data analysis, modeling, and simulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\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\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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\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\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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\u003E\u201cWe keep finding things to do and smaller side projects to work on,\u201d said Duncan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough 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\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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Smart Energy Campus (SEC)  is a joint sustainability research initiative that is bringing together GT-AE\u0027s Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL),  the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Georgia Tech Facilities Management."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-10 17:19:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"498921":{"id":"498921","type":"image","title":"ASDL Collaboration with ECE and GT Facilities Producing Interesting Results","body":null,"created":"1455145200","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 23:00:00","changed":"1475895258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:18","alt":"ASDL Collaboration with ECE and GT Facilities Producing Interesting Results","file":{"fid":"204659","name":"05-27smart_energy_campus.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/05-27smart_energy_campus.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/05-27smart_energy_campus.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":163080,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/05-27smart_energy_campus.jpg?itok=6hAVO56P"}}},"media_ids":["498921"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"2435","name":"ECE"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"169913","name":"Smart Energy Campus"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}