Rapid Application Development with OpenStudio: Preprint

Conference · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1040934

Weaver, Evan; Long, Nicholas; Fleming, Katherine; Schott, Marjorie; Benne, Kyle; Hale, Elaine

This paper presents several case studies of rapidly implemented, audience-specific applications for whole building energy modeling and standards analysis. By tailoring each application to the audience and the task at hand, the required learning curve for new users was greatly reduced. Each case study used OpenStudio, the U.S. Department of Energy's middleware software development kit (SDK).OpenStudio provides an easy interface to the EnergyPlus whole building simulation engine, while extending its capability and providing higher-level functionality such as software interoperability, standards, analysis, and optimization. Each case study is unique in the technology employed to interface with OpenStudio as well as the methods used for user interaction and data presentation. Fourcase studies are presented.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1040934
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5500-54998
• Conference Information: To be presented at the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study, 12-17 August 2012, Pacific Grove, California
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
BUILDINGS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
LEARNING
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
OpenStudio Software
OPTIMIZATION
Research Support Facility (RSF)
SIMULATION
software development kit (SDK)
whole-building energy modeling