Acquisition, Control, and Visualization Platform for Occupancy Sensing and Related Smart Building Technologies

Real-time occupancy sensing is one of the constant goals for energy managers across all facilities, buildings, and plants.The ability to know who or what is in a building and its characteristics for heating and cooling can give insight into improving building cost/energy efficiency and automatically respond to changes in environment, use, occupancy, and related parameters. There are a plethora of sensor types that should be integrated into such a system; however, COTS solutions in this field are generally proprietary and thus limited in compatibility from many perspectives.The UTC solution is a unified technology platform; a total solution that can be used for anything from testing new occupancy strategies to implementing automated HVAC controls.By building the foundation of this solution on an open-source, tested, interoperable framework, the UTC approach will deliver a solution that can detect and react based on pre-defined sensor patterns without compatibility or implementation limitations typical of existing COTS smart building packages.The UTC team, including UDRI, SlickLabs, Harbor Link, and Greenspace, has the BAS interoperability experience from previous efforts with AFCEC, experience with facility-related control systems (FRCS), and innovators in the occupancy sensing space.