Testing Data Acquisition Systems for Use in Monitoring Building Energy Conservation Systems

摘要

Dedicated microprocessor-based data acquisition systemsare beginning to be used to monitor the energy savings frombuilding energy conservation retrofits. These systems capturedata from important monitoring points and store the values forperiodic transfer to a central location. While there are manydata loggers available that appear suited to this task, choosingbetween them is complicated by a large number of manufacturers,a lack of standard communications protocols, and mostsignificantly, no standardized tests for reporting theircapabilities. This paper addresses the last point with a battery oftests that were developed and applied to data loggers from ninemanufacturers.