Computer Storage of Heating/Cooling Optimum Control Ranges for Accessing by Heating Plant Operators Using the Small Business Minicomputer. Final Report

摘要

The potential of processing by microprocessor-based computers of raw data collected over a period of years by typical institutional users, projecting or predicting normal or abnormal usage of various energy forms by typical institutional buildings was explored. Knowing that the memory or storage capacity of the small-business computers was limited, it was an essential part of the grant program that the data on file in the campus mainframe or host computer of the institution be accessed by the small-office machine. In theory, having acquired blocks of data by internal-campus telephone transmission, the small computer would then be able to pull off averaged profiles of each building being studied, compare the current energy usage (month, year-to-date, total year, etc.) to that building's norm. Those tasks would be done by the microprocessor, but the files requiring large memory would be at the main computer center. A side benefit of the small computer in energy management was to be its usefulness as a means of compiling Preventive Maintenance records on the energy-utilization equipment, boilers, fans, pumps, exhaust systems, and controls. (ERA citation 09:016731)