Energy Usage Feedback

One of the other priorities under the smart grid is feedback to the premises EMS on actual energy use.

The actual efforts to solve this problem seem, to date, to be inward focused, i.e., how can we collect this info and send it back through our substations to our CRMs. Personally, I think that something that looks like an oBIX watchpoint, or an oBIX Trend Report internal to the building makes a lot more sense.

But if it must go back to the utility CRM, should Energy Interoperation include an interaction to delver it back to the building? What if it is not available for delivery until the next day? (The UCAIug calls this “near real time”)

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -- Alexander Graham Bell

Toby Considine

Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee
OASIS Technical Advisory Board
OASIS Energy Interoperation TC
Facilities Technology Office
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Email: Toby.Considine@ unc.edu
Phone: (919)962-9073

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blog: www.NewDaedalus.com

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