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Facility Resource Management Solutions: Emerging IT Tools Reshape Building Energy Management
AltaTerra Research, Nov 2011, Pages: 81
In this report, we describe twelve advanced Facility Resource Management (FRM) capabilities, in the context of a six-level reference architecture for enterprise sustainability. We profile example solutions come from technology start-ups including Agilewaves and SCIenergy, as well as major control systems incumbents JCI and Honeywell. Two customer case studies are presented, from leading-edge customers employing multiple FRM solutions. Lastly, we present a series of recommendations for how organizations can approach planning and implementation of FRM solutions.
Enterprises around the world have elevated energy efficiency and sustainability to a strategic concern. For many, buildings have become a key focus: commercial facilities account for up to 50% of electricity use in the US, nearly 30% of which is wasted through inefficiency. Yet most Building Management Systems (BMS) were designed primarily to manage building operations and occupant comfort, and lack the ability to store, analyze and act on large volumes of energy use and trend data.
Over the last decade, technology has improved significantly in environmental monitoring and control systems, and advances in IT have made it cost effective to collect and analyze vast amounts of data. These developments have led to the emergence of new application software, control systems, and IT-enabled devices, evolving Facility Resource Management (FRM) to a new level. Building upon the BMS, facilities professionals now have access to a range of add-on solutions for continuous commissioning, automated demand response, tenant engagement, and other advanced capabilities. And while ROI varies widely by implementation, such solutions are demonstrating attractive efficiency gains of 10-30+%.
Example Findings
- Commercial facilities comprise a significant share of resource use in developed economies, thus facilities professionals will play a key role in reducing global resource footprints.
- For enterprises working to meet strategic sustainability goals, new technologies for facility resource efficiency aid in footprint reduction, and can often be deployed with an attractive ROI.
- Recent advances in information technology have triggered a new wave of Facility Resource Management solutions. Hardware and software have been decoupled, enabling new venture-backed firms utilizing rapid software development cycles to tackle traditional facilities issues.
- New capabilities are now available that can have a dramatic impact on operational efficiency. These capabilities are bundled together in variety of ways by a very heterogeneous vendor market. The capabilities are as follows:
Advanced Sensing & Metering
Networking & Data Collection
Advanced System Control & Optimization
System Maintenance Analytics
Integrated System Management & Control
Automated Ongoing Commissioning
Enterprise Data Integration
Dashboarding & Visualization
Benchmarking & Modeling
Supply Management
Demand Management
Occupant Engagement
- The FRM market is becoming more and more fragmented, as a host of new vendor solutions have been introduced. The major controls vendors will continue to expand their offerings, but new start-ups with low hardware footprints are likely to gain market share.
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