Recovery Act - Nonintrusive Utility Monitor

Accurate measurement of consumption profiles for utility services like electricity, water, and gas consumed in their buildings is essential to understand and optimize energy consumption, detect and solve equipment failures and problems, and facilitate predictive maintenance of various utility loads. Currently, multiple sensors and wiring and extensive tracking and monitoring is required to obtain this information and make it useful. A non-intrusive monitoring system will be developed which requires only a single, easily and inexpensively installed sensor package at the utility input to the building. Computer analysis of the resulting data will disaggregate individual devices systems, measure consumption and enable tracking and conservation. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: Commercial products will be the sensor packages and data analysis systems. Users will be able easily and inexpensively to monitor, track and optimize utility usage in individual subsystems with an easily installed and used system which does not require installation and wiring/wireless networking of many sensors.