simuwatt - A Tablet Based Electronic Auditing Tool
Abstract
'simuwatt Energy Auditor' (TM) is a new tablet-based electronic auditing tool that is designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost to perform investment-grade audits and improve quality and consistency. The tool uses the U.S. Department of Energy's OpenStudio modeling platform and integrated Building Component Library to automate modeling and analysis. simuwatt's software-guided workflow helps users gather required data, and provides the data in a standard electronic format that is automatically converted to a baseline OpenStudio model for energy analysis. The baseline energy model is calibrated against actual monthly energy use to ASHRAE Standard 14 guidelines. Energy conservation measures from the Building Component Library are then evaluated using OpenStudio's parametric analysis capability. Automated reporting creates audit documents that describe recommended packages of energy conservation measures. The development of this tool was partially funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program. As part of this program, the tool is being tested at 13 buildings on 5 Department of Defense sites across the United States. Results of the first simuwatt audit tool demonstration are presented in this paper.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOD Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1274097
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5500-61418
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at eSim 2014, 7-10 May 2014, Ottawa, Canada
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; energy audit; tablet; retrofit; simuwatt; OpenStudio; EnergyPlus; Department of Defense
Citation Formats
Macumber, Daniel, Parker, Andrew, Lisell, Lars, Metzger, Ian, and Brown, Matthew. simuwatt - A Tablet Based Electronic Auditing Tool. United States: N. p., 2014.
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Macumber, Daniel, Parker, Andrew, Lisell, Lars, Metzger, Ian, & Brown, Matthew. simuwatt - A Tablet Based Electronic Auditing Tool. United States.
Macumber, Daniel, Parker, Andrew, Lisell, Lars, Metzger, Ian, and Brown, Matthew. 2014.
"simuwatt - A Tablet Based Electronic Auditing Tool". United States.
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