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News Release from: Echelon | Subject: LonWorks technology
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 August 2006
Improved energy savings and student
comfort
Singapore Management University deployed Echelon's LonWorks technology in their new city campus as the foundation for their state-of-the-art Intelligent Building Management System.
Echelon Corporation, a global networking company providing technology and solutions for controls, smart metering, and energy and environment management, today announced that the Singapore Management University (SMU) has deployed Echelon's LonWorks technology in their new city campus as the foundation for their state-of-the-art Intelligent Building Management System (IBMS) The system integrates multiple building automation sub-systems to enable SMU to significantly reduce energy consumption and costs and increase student comfort
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Echelon's intelligent platform helped us implement a comprehensive solution that improves comfort, safety and efficiency throughout the campus," said Ho Thim Seng, Facilities Management Director at SMU.
"Using Echelon's technology, we anticipate exceeding 20 percent energy savings at the new city campus by fine tuning our system in a way that was never available with traditional control systems".
Unlike commercial office buildings that operate with a more or less constant load through fixed office hours, the SMU campus is dynamic and constantly changing.
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The student population moves within the campus and energy loads (especially for cooling) are shifted from one location to another.
The number of seminar rooms, classrooms, and group study rooms in use varies one day to the next, making the university's timetable much less predictable than a commercial office building.
Efficient management and control of air conditioning equipment is especially important since energy used for cooling traditionally takes up to 60% or more of the energy consumption bill.
Echelon's platform is the only one that enables truly seamless integration of multiple building sub-systems and internet connectivity in an open network across SMU's campus, acting as a common communications infrastructure for all sub-systems.
By automating and integrating the control of SMU's air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation, electric power metering, and fire alarm monitoring systems, as well as lighting systems for conference halls, seminar rooms, group study rooms, and faculty and staff offices, SMU can ensure that unused rooms are not burning energy.
SMU is able to achieve further energy savings through the optimization of building sub-systems, such as lighting and elevator and escalator automation controls.
Automated lighting controls help reduce energy consumption through scheduling and programming.
Rather than operate lights on a 24/7 schedule, SMU is able to program its requirements based on student activity, thus further reducing energy costs.
The new IBMS helps SMU react to continuously evolving energy load patterns, and allows SMU to easily adapt its power usage to address the constantly changing needs across multiple building subsystems.
The system will also give SMU the flexibility to easily integrate with new, best of breed products, supporting future expansion as facility requirements change over time.
"SMU's energy utilization rate is unpredictable, which can lead to high energy costs," said Anders Axelsson, Echelon's senior vice president of sales and marketing.
"Our open technology platform helps organizations like SMU manage energy usage and reduce costs, and gives them the flexibility to quickly and easily deploy and integrate energy saving technologies in the future.".
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