Smart Grid Solutions

Smart grid has become one the few buzzwords off late. It is very common to find people talk about the smart grid in the corporate as well as non-corporate sectors. It is believed by several million people around the globe that the smart grid is likely to revolutionize electric energy distribution system and help build “smart buildings” of future and after an unspecified period can become a precursor to “smart cities.”

However, it must not go unnoticed, even inadvertently that a major of build around the globe still use traditional pneumatic thermostat systems. Some statistical data reveals that over 60 million traditional pneumatic thermostat systems are still in use. These may become a potential hindrance to the “smart citifies” of future.

If they are not upgraded or unless something is done about it, these buildings may not be able to benefit from, communicate with, and leverage on the smart grid advancements. It is important to note that the smart grid initiative leading to smart buildings and eventually smart cities can render no fruits if aging buildings having the traditional pneumatic thermostat systems. Introducing wireless pneumatic thermostat with wireless sensor network digital control to the old against building with pneumatic thermostat system is essential while at the same time it should aim at minimizing downtime and costs simultaneously. This is necessary for the smart grid initiative to succeed at large scale level.

The new wireless pneumatic thermostats compared to traditional pneumatic systems enable facilities management team with the requisite tools to perform sophisticated analysis using the building data. This analysis could be used to discover lack of efficiencies on one hand and optimize the consumption of energy on the other hand. The advancements and continuous adoption of internet by ever-increasing no of houses has resulted in use of internet as the communication standards. Similarly, web services can be used in the building automation systems that can be extended to concepts of smart grid, smart buildings, and smart cities.

Realizing the potential of the new wireless sensor network in the wireless pneumatic thermostat systems more and more no of HVAC controls suppliers are now focusing on developing and providing these new capabilities to the green field market but also migrating or enabling existing traditional pneumatic systems. The real-time data produced by most of the cutting edge technologies can be stored in databases, which can then be used for trending and taking decision with respect to the performance glitches. Not only this, these solutions can provide the facility management teams with the real-time building performance data, which can be used by them to take real time operational decisions.

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