SCIenergy Application Newest Module for SCIwatch Automated Continuous
Commissioning Platform
BERKELEY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Scientific Conservation Inc., (SCI), a leading provider of energy efficiency
solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market, today announced
SCIenergy, a highly accurate energy measurement and optimization application for
its SCIwatch Automated Continuous Commissioning platform. SCIenergy delivers a
breakthrough solution that accurately measures and predicts a facility`s energy
use under a wide range of operating conditions to help determine whether or not
the building is performing at optimal energy efficiency levels.
"The measurement of energy savings is problematic at best," states Program
Manager Jorge Moreno, Environmental & Building Technologies at Frost & Sullivan.
"Relying on static building models developed by designers as a means of
measuring efficiency is proving to be an issue because they simply aren`t
accurate enough. Designers lack the foresight in terms of how a building will be
operated once constructed. There must be a new understanding of how the myriad
of operating variables dramatically affect energy use. SCIenergy represents an
entirely new approach that overcomes the inaccuracy of conventional energy
models by providing ongoing and highly accurate real-time assessment of a
building`s systems performance."
SCIenergy is based on a methodology that has been tested on numerous types of
buildings including office, retail, institutional, industrial and healthcare
facilities, each of which have unique operating conditions. In many cases, the
accuracy of the projections of monthly energy use was as high as 99 percent.
SCIenergy combines fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence neural network
technologies to find relationships between complex operations variables and
building usage patterns. All of this technology is completely transparent to
facility operators.
SCIenergy provides the following benefits:
* Accurate energy and greenhouse gas baselines with no on-site energy audits or
complex facility modeling, using existing energy bills
* Accurate measurement of energy savings and its associated greenhouse gas
reduction
* A proven methodology to create independently certified carbon credits
"Typical statistical models and building simulations are lucky to be within
plus-or minus 15 percent," said John Pitcher, COO and founder of Scientific
Conservation. "SCIenergy on the other hand is achieving dramatic results by
correlating predicted energy baselines within one-to-two percent of actual
usage. As a result, we`re providing an energy savings methodology that is
extremely well positioned to provide accurate measurements of carbon reduction
and by extension, cap and trade of carbon credits."
SCIenergy Beta Program
Scientific Conservation is currently signing up qualified prospects for its
SCIenergy beta testing program. More information on how to participate is
available at http://www.scientificconservation.com/scienergy.
About Scientific Conservation, Inc.
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI) is a leading provider of energy efficiency
and system optimization solutions for the $5 billion commercial building market.
The company`s SCIwatch continuous commissioning solution is the industry`s first
software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to continuously maintain system
efficiencies against real-time operation. The company is headquartered in
Berkeley, Calif., with offices in Atlanta. Follow SCIwatch on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/SCIwatch.
Gallagher Group Communications
Kevin Gallagher, 510-599-0416
kevin@gg-comm.com
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