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Energy Optimization through Fault Detection and Diagnostics - Reducing Energy & Maintenance Costs

Intelligence & Insight into the FM Mandate:�People, Places, Process, and Technology

IPMA Annual Conference, May 11th, 2024

Sponsored by SmartDots

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Speakers - Introduction

Bob Sharon

Sofwan Wilanda

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The Agenda

    • The challenges faced in today’s FM world
    • The Essentials for the Future of the Built Environment
    • Where to start?
    • Strategies (Architecture,FDD,Generative AI,Cyber Security)
    • Call to Action
    • Live Demonstration
    • Case Studies
    • QnA

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Reducing

  • Energy bills by at least 5 to 10%
  • Unplanned maintenance
  • Maintenance costs by at least 10%

Poor power quality Issue

  • Equipment
  • System Outage

Unplanned Outage

  • Equipment Failures

vendors claiming savings for their solutions, how can we conduct a thorough cost benefit analysis that will yield the best and most effective returns without compromise

Improving energy efficiency to reduce cost with compromise to human comfort and operational integrity

The challenges faced in today’s FM world

Lack of :

  • awareness and knowledge about energy efficiency
  • data and information about energy consumption
  • experts

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The Essentials for the future in the built environment?

ESG for Buildings

Carbon reduction

Health & Wellbeing

Wireless Monitoring, Metering & Alerting

BEMS – Building Energy management Systems with analytics & AI

BMS – Building Management Systems with analytics & AI

Fault Detection & Diagnostics

Asset

Management

Cyber Security

Effective and efficient implementation will answer the challenges facing FM today

IoT In Buildings from Connectivity to AI Insights

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  • Measure, Measure, Measure
  • The more data, the more analysis can take place in real time
  • Data is then converted to valuable insights by your service provider

Do you want to save on costs??

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IoT In Buildings from Connectivity to AI Insights

DATA VISUALIZATION : TURNING COMPLEXITY INTO CLARITY

Strategies -

Fault Detection and Diagnostic (FDD)

Accelerometers, Vibration Transmitters

and Switches to Monitor Critical Rotating Assets

& Power Feedback metering

Predictive Maintenance is a process by which a maintenance technician is alerted to a problem developing in a critical production machine.

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IoT In Buildings from Connectivity to AI Insights

Strategies – Overall

Save money!!�Don’t replace the existing HVAC infrastructure yet – Rather, recommission

keep the old BMS or Not??

Validate the case for either.

Lot’s of budget is at stake

Don’t add new BMS on the old BMS

Use Open and not closed Systems

Use a system where YOU own your data

Ensure you have cloud based analytics from your provider

Ensure the new system has (FDD) Fault Detection & Diagnostics

Have hybrid of wired and wireless sensors

IAQ Integration & Remediation where required (Mainly healthcare) from your provide

is a must!!!

Single place for data retrieval and visualisation

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IoT In Buildings from Connectivity to AI Insights

Strategies – for Wireless, which protocol?

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Call to Action

IoT In Buildings from Connectivity to AI Insights – Next Steps

Where your

biggest problems

are??

Address it!!!

Reduce the unplanned

Maintanance and Outage

Talk to the right service providers

Do a thorough business case analysis on any intended change

IT MUST WORK FOR YOU!

When??? NOW!!!!!

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Live Demonstration of a Cloud Platform

Thank You!

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Case Study 1 – Fujitsu Data Centre

Two halls of Fujitsu’s Noble Park date centre were the first in Australia to have been awarded an official NABERS rating in 2013.

The National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) is an Australian rating system that measures energy efficiency, water usage, waste management and indoor air quality within the built environment. This rating system, launched in 1998, assesses building infrastructure, hotels, shopping centres and since 2013, data centres.

Bob Sharon conducted the first NABERS audit for a data centre - Fujitsu - in 2013, making him the only fully accredited NABERS assessor for Data centres in Australia at the time. Bob was fully equipped when tackling the unique challenges presented by the plant that supplied power and cooling to 2,000+ sq. m of racks at building one of Noble Park (Halls 1 & 2). The rating was based on 12 months of energy consumption acquired by third-party verifiable data. “The first official NABERS audit resulted in a lot of lessons for all parties involved”, says Bob.

Client testimonial

“The company opted to be the first to achieve a rating to validate its efforts to reduce data centre power consumption. Fujitsu onboarded Bob Sharon because he was already certified and had extensive Data Centre experience”, said Lee Stewart, head of sustainability at Fujitsu Australia.

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Case Study 2 – City of Greater Dandenong

The City of Greater Dandenong, a municipality in Melbourne’s south east covering an area of almost 130 square kilometres with over 166,000 residents owns and operates many buildings in the region.

  1. 70% savings of HVAC electricity consumption against previous BMS
  2. 64% savings of HVAC gas consumption against previous BMS
  3. 27% better than the best practice in the Australian office environment as published by AIRAH
  4. 46% kWh savings from total electricity bills
  5. Just over a two-year payback period

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Case Study 3 – Waverley Library

The Waverley Council Library is a 20-year-old facility located in Sydney’s famous Bondi Junction, that provides and supports numerous services, programs and initiatives for elevating the quality of life for the local community. The building comprises multiple offices, a two-floored library spanning 4,000 sqm on each floor, and two underground car park levels of 4,000 sqm each. Its Heating, Ventilation and Cooling System (HVAC) includes one large chiller, 45 variable air volume (VAV) units distributing chilled air, and electric heaters, along with one package HVAC system. 

Council Statement:-

With an engagement model based on collaboration and partnership, Blue IoT has been in direct and continual coordination with Bart McGuffin, the Facilities Officer at Waverley Council.

“From a facilities management perspective, the key ability of a building management system is providing a clear visual representation of all components and functions of the HVAC system throughout the building. The capacity to view and control the system via a user-friendly, compatible platform across several devices enables prompt fault detection along with means to make adjustments to the system by both the facilities team and reactive HVAC contractors”, says Bart.

significant 41% reduction in grid power energy use was recorded for October 2020 by Encompass Blue - Blue IoT’s smart cities management platform suite. These savings were made achievable due to the streamlined HVAC control by Encompass Blue.

Project Highlight

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Energy Optimization through Fault Detection and Diagnostics

Reducing Energy & Maintenance Costs

Q & A

Thank You!