4 Ways to Improve Your Facility Using Local Weather Data

摘要

When trying to improve HVAC operation, many FMs have taken on metering electricity use to tell how efficiently HVAC equipment is working. While helpful, this practice only tells part of the story. "For a lot of facilities managers, if you asked them, 'How does your HVAC equipment - your chiller or boiler plant, as examples - behave on a 60-degree day without humidity?' or 'How do they behave on an 80-degree day with high humidity?' I think a lot of the time the answer is that the data isn't really available," says Mark Pando, Energy Project Engineer at Enertiv, a provider of loT solutions for commercial real estate portfolios. "loT solutions can tie in with local weather data to fill in that picture for a lot of facilities managers in terms of their equipment today, as well as last week and last month."