Building Sustainability Goal Control for Equipment Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building management systems lack the capability to effectively improve sustainability metrics such as carbon emissions, energy consumption, and other environmental impacts by optimizing the operation of building equipment based on predefined or user-defined sustainability goals.
Innovation Solution
A building management system that includes processors to receive operational data, determine baseline sustainability performance, establish sustainability goals, and generate control actions for building equipment to achieve target sustainability levels, including user-defined updates and feedback mechanisms for continuous improvement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If building management systems optimize equipment operation based on sustainability goals, then sustainability performance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments sustainability management into distinct modules: goal establishment module, operational data collection module, control action generation module, and feedback module. Each module handles specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive sustainability optimization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing sustainability goals and baseline performance metrics before optimizing equipment operation. Control actions are generated in advance based on predicted sustainability targets, allowing the system to proactively improve sustainability performance without requiring complex real-time decision-making.
2Reliability
If the system establishes sustainability goals and generates control actions for multiple building equipment domains, then sustainability improvement is achieved, but the complexity of goal management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sustainability goal management system is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse building equipment domains (HVAC, lighting, security, etc.) through a unified goal establishment and evaluation framework. This universal approach allows the system to manage sustainability goals across multiple domains without proportionally increasing management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor equipment operational data against established sustainability goals. This feedback loop automatically adjusts control actions to maintain progress toward targets, reducing the manual management complexity by enabling self-regulating goal achievement across multiple equipment domains.
Data Source
AI summary
A building management system can include one or more memory devices that can store instructions thereon. The instructions can, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to provide a user interface having a first view, receive a target value for at least one sustainability metric, establish a sustainability goal for the entity to achieve the target value within the timeframe, generate one or more actions for a plurality of pieces of building equipment included in at least one building of an entity to move the at least one sustainability metric for the entity towards the target value, and update the user interface to include a second view.