Page 65 - Climate Control News - July 2018

Building Automation Feature
Fault detection service removes data deluge
BUILDINGIQ HAS ANNOUNCED a new Outcome-based Fault Detection (OFD) ser- vice offering - a closed-loop building energy management service that helps building and portfolio operators identify issues, pri- oritize repairs and validate work performed.
Through a combination of AI, energy an- alytics and human expertise, OFD was cre- atedtoovercomemanyoftheshortcomings that plague today’s fault detection and diag- nostic (FDD) services.
These challenges include a deluge of daily faults that are cumbersome to pri- oritize and action; the high cost of defin- ing and writing rules that identify accu- rate faults due to a lack of documentation of how systems operate in reality versus the design documents; and a lack of ac- countability for fault validation. OFD is now available worldwide.
“Outcome-based Fault Detection is a
comprehensive solution that takes fault detection in a better and broader direc- tion,” said Michael Nark, president and CEOofBuildingIQ.
“It does this by embracing the key role played by facility experts and augments it with machine learning and cutting-edge artificial intelligence. OFD works wheth- er data is good or spotty and leverages machine learning to take the burden of data analytics into the cloud.
“Theresultisbuildingoperatorsdonot have to waste valuable time and resourc- es scouring through tables of hundreds of daily faults. Instead, with OFD, operators can focus on the things that truly need fixing, their tenants and the bottom line.”
For more information on BuildingIQ’s OFD service, visit https://buildingiq. com/products/building-operations/out- come-based-fault-detection/.
A deluge of data makes it difficult to prioritise faults.
stance, what furniture would look like in their own home.
“But while the hardware is evolving at a rapid pace, the digital services that can run on that hardware are just beginning to be explored.”
The Lab itself features a fleet of wearable holo- graphic computing devices, spatial cameras, 3D object scanners, haptic (virtual touch) displays, interactive projection mapping stages and mo- tion capture rigs.
The CSIRO building which houses the lab contains a cloud-based smart glasses sys- tem, developed by Data61, which displays historical and real-time energy usage data overlaid directly on the appliances consum- ing the energy.
It is an indication of what is possible in smart buildings of the future.
"Data61 is already working on AR projects re- lated to health, future cities, education, agricul- ture and manufacturing, to name a few".
CEO of Data61 Adrian Turner said augmented reality now is where the Web was several dec- ades ago - on the cusp of broad adoption, as the technology matures.
Experimenting with some of the Lab’s wearable holographic computing devices.
CSIRO lab to create buildings of the future
CSIRO’S DATA61 HAS opened a new Im- mersive Environments Lab, a facility purpose- built for applied research into novel augment- ed reality, virtual reality and 3D Web technologies — industries set to be worth $143 billion by 2021.
The Lab, which is part of CSIRO’s new $100
million research facility in Canberra, will al- low researchers to develop new interactive computer graphics and computational imag- ing services, which will redefine a number of different industries.
Senior research engineer and experimental scientist at CSIRO’s Data61 Matt Adcock, said AR and VR technology would change the way Aus- tralians interact with digi- tal systems allowing main- tenance workers to interact directly with smart buildings, and tap- ping into vast catalogues
of 3D data.
“AR technologies can
sense elements of the physi- cal environment and enable delivery of holographic data right where and when it is needed most,” Adcock said.
“Some smartphone apps already let users see, for in-
CLIMATE CONTROL NEWS JULY 2018
65