Addressing the challenge of energy

efficiency through ICT

Presented by
Firas Obeido
CEO
SatchNet Electronic Systems
Amman - Jordan

Certified Energy Manager

LonMark Certified Professional

Important Facts
Under the Kyoto Protocol overall reduction
for CO2 emissions needs to fall by 20% by
2020.
Up to 50% of CO2 emissions related to
residential and commercial buildings is from
electricity consumption.
If newly constructed buildings perform
exactly as existing buildings the result by
2020 will be an increase in electricity
consumption of 22%.

Important Facts
In order to reach a fall in consumption of 20%
by 2020 the following has to happen:
1- All new buildings constructed to consume
50% less energy
2- 1 in 10 existing buildings to reduce
consumption by 30% each year
The ability to meet targets by simply
persuading people to act differently or deploy
new energy saving or energy efficient
technologies is unlikely to succeed.

Important Concepts

Power is nothing without control.

If you cant measure it, you cant control it.
If you cant control it, you cant manage it.
Management & Control based on continuous
and real time measurement is the KEY to
energy Efficiency.
Priority ONE should be for energy saving. It
will cost a lot less to invest in saving energy
rather than investing in renewable energy.

Important Definitions
Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD): Is
an analytics tool that recognizes when a
problem has occurred or is likely to occur
and pinpoints one or more root causes of the
problem so that corrective action can be
taken

Important Definitions
Automated Demand Response (ADR): The
ADR actively initiates control actions that
minimize energy use & costs over a
prescribed time horizon based on dynamic
pricing or Peak loads that might lead to
shutdowns to ensure occupant comfort,
productivity, and safety.

Important Definitions
Automated Measurement & Verification
(M&V): Is a set of activities that demonstrate
to a customer that a project implementing
energy efficiency programs is working as
intended and generating agreed-upon
savings. by comparing the energy use before
and after implementation of energy
conservation measures using the same
baseline.

Important Definitions
Energy Information Management: Is the
useful visualization of information resulting
from data collection, mining and other
analytics.

Important Definitions
High Performance buildings: are designed
and built to minimize energy usage and
environmental impacts, while maximizing
comfort, health, and safety
Smart Buildings: Leverage technology to
provide enhanced performance and are
connected and responsive to the smart
power grid, whichis emerging as information
technology is applied to the infrastructure
that delivers our electricity.

Important Definitions
Energy Information Management: Is the
useful visualization of information resulting
from data collection, mining and other
analytics.

Smart Grids & Smart

Buildings
Truly smart buildings will leverage
knowledge that resides outside its walls.
Introducing programs that allow real-time
adjustment of demand in addition to supply
when wholesale prices are high or when grid
reliability is in question or high demand is
expected.
Two-way communication between the Grid &
the Building where software conversation
actually makes the Grid & the Building talk to
each other.

Smart Grids & Smart

Buildings

Smart Infrastructure:
Components
Smart Buildings
Smart Meters
Two-Way Communication System between
the Grid & the Building where software
conversation actually makes the Grid & the
Building talk to each other.

How can ICT Help

The ICT sector can boost energy efficiency
and enable emission reductions in a number of
ways:
Standardize
Monitor
Account
Rethink
Transform

ICT: Standarise
Standarise:
ICT can provide information in standard forms
on energy consumption and emissions, across
sectors

ICT: Monitor
Monitor:
ICT can incorporate monitoring information
into the design and control for energy use

ICT: Account
Account:
ICT can provide the capabilities and platforms
to improve accountability of energy and
carbon.

ICT: Rethink
Rethink:
ICT can offer innovations that capture energy
efficiency opportunities across buildings,
homes , transport, power, manufacturing and
other infrastructure and provide alternatives to
current ways of operating, learning, living,
working and travelling

ICT: Transform
Transform:
ICT can apply smart and integrated
approaches to energy management of systems
and processes, including benefits from both
automation and behavior change and develop
alternatives to high carbon activities, across all
sectors of the economy.

Sub-Metering: Electricity
Breakdown

Intelligent Energy
Management Triangle

IT Convergence & High

Performance Building

Managing Sustainable
Goals
Energy efficiency measures contribute to an
organizations sustainability goals, such as
tracking and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. But if the data is trapped within the
building management system, executive level
decision-makers may not find it.

Managing Sustainable
Goals
One result of exposing data to the executive
levels is a web-based dashboard display that
offers a visual snapshot of which facilities are
experiencing high energy usage.

Visualization

Visualization
Executives in charge of sustainability and
carbon footprint management are now able to
see the big picture of their organization, no
matter how many buildings or geographic
locations are involved. When information is
available quickly and can be accessed
anywhere, managers are able to make better
decisions that have an immediate impact on
profitability.

Visualization

Visualization

Benchmarking

Benchmarking

Access to Information
The underlying principle that drives the
connections between smart technology,
sustainability, and efficiency is the access to
better information that enables more effective
decision making, which in turn results in more
efficient operations and fewer resource
requirements.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
Four steps to a smarter program:1- Surveillance: The ability to collect
sufficient data in real time or near real time. It
is referred to as instrumented because it
depends upon the right infrastructure and
instrumentation to gather and collect the data.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
2- Transformation: The need to begin the
transformation of that source data into useful
information with interconnected devices and
software tools that enable multidirectional
communications. We call this step
interconnected because it represents the
spoke and hub network of consumption
devices and centralized information systems
that gather and assess the various data
sources.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
3- Intelligence: The progression from
information to action through the use of
advanced analytics, intelligent controls, and
automatic event detection and handling as well
as Fault Detection & Diagnostic (FDD). This is
the point at which performance optimization
becomes the defining program principle.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
4- Innovation: The highest level of a smarter
initiative is the application of innovative
business solutions, which transform the way
we operate and behave through the application
of new technologies, new processes, and
virtual teams.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
Based on the mentioned four steps, a control
framework can be established based on
advanced data analysis and improved
decision making on matters such as peak
load management, power factor corrections,
and load shedding. This framework recognizes
a rapid return on investment.

Smart Energy Efficiency

Initiative (Program)
In fact, if done well, its a transformational
journey that affects and improves an
organizations processes, policies,
governance, and business model.

Energy Information
Systems (EIS)

Energy Information
Systems (EIS)

Shouldnt our buildings

Thank you!

Questions ?
Firas.obeido@satchnet.com