Open data drives value, but is hard to come by in buildings
In today’s world, data is a commodity – the “open data” movement has gained traction as a powerful lever to drive innovation democratizing access to information enhances value across industries.
Buildings are becoming increasingly data rich environments but, in contrast to other domains such as image processing or government operations, open datasets representing commercial building operations are nearly non-existent. Even more rare is ground-truth verified data for building system and equipment operations.
Why HVAC faults are important
Software-based analytics represent one of the fastest growing markets in commercial building technologies, and as data science comes to buildings, the industry has seen an explosion of interest in the development of advanced analytics and controls.
In particular, FDD (fault detection and diagnostics) technology enables average savings of 9% with 2-year paybacks, by using building operational data to identify system or equipment level faults, and isolate their causes.
Putting the HVAC fault data to use
This resource is being used by industry, research, and academia to:
- Create new analytics and fault diagnostic algorithms
- Benchmark performance
- Improve product efficacy and reliability
- Train tomorrow’s workforce, bring data science to building science