Making The Case For Energy Management For AV Systems

摘要

About a decade ago, I was sitting in a session about Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and rating systems for energy-efficient buildings. The presenter was from our industry, and he was encouraging people to pay attention to power usage. He displayed a statistic about total usage in buildings, as well as what a typical AV system contributed to the overall building. His slide showed that, at the time, the AV system's contribution to overall building energy consumption was a little over five percent. Building systems like heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and lighting occupied the largest pieces of the pie chart, and no sector was smaller than AV was. In other words, our industry's products were the smallest consumer of energy in the building space.