Building Health Scoring With Feedback-Based Energy Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building systems often operate inefficiently, affecting the health of occupants, environmental pollution, and energy usage without considering a comprehensive assessment of space, planet, and people health parameters.
Innovation Solution
A building system that integrates with various building systems to generate overall health scores based on space, planet, and people parameters, implementing updates to improve these parameters and provide user interfaces with recommendations for improvement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If building systems operate to provide environmental control and services, then building functionality is improved, but energy usage and pollution generation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors building system operations and their environmental impacts, using this feedback to automatically adjust operations. The platform tracks energy consumption, pollution generation, and building functionality metrics, then provides real-time recommendations and automated controls to optimize the balance between operational effectiveness and environmental sustainability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts operational parameters of building systems based on multiple factors including occupancy levels, outdoor conditions, and environmental sustainability targets. By changing parameters such as temperature setpoints, equipment runtime, and system priority levels, the platform optimizes the trade-off between building functionality and energy consumption.
2Ease of operation
If building systems operate to provide services, then occupant comfort is improved, but environmental pollution increases
Solution Approach 1:
The platform monitors both occupant comfort metrics and environmental pollution indicators from building system operations. This dual feedback loop enables the system to identify and resolve conflicts between comfort provision and pollution generation, adjusting operations to maintain comfort while minimizing harmful environmental impacts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts operational parameters to reduce pollution while maintaining occupant comfort within acceptable ranges. This includes optimizing HVAC operations, lighting schedules, and equipment usage patterns to minimize emissions and environmental harm while preserving comfortable indoor conditions.
3Reliability
If comprehensive health assessment is implemented, then building health optimization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The platform performs multiple functions through a single integrated system: monitoring building systems, assessing health metrics, generating recommendations, and implementing controls. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems for each function, managing complexity while providing comprehensive health assessment and optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform acts as an intermediary layer between building systems and occupants, translating complex system data into actionable health assessments and recommendations. This intermediary function simplifies the interface between the complex building infrastructure and users, presenting optimized health information without exposing underlying system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A building system of a building including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate one or more recommendations for improving one or more building scores, the one or more recommendations including a prediction of an increase to a level of the one or more building scores or a decrease to the level of the one or more building scores. The instructions cause the one or more processors to cause the display device of the user device of the user to display the one or more recommendations and receive, via the display device, a selection of one recommendation of the one or more recommendations via the display device from the user and operate the one or more building systems based on one or more operating settings of the one recommendation.