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Energy - A New Vertical Market for Drupal

Posted by David Thompson on Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 10:08 Drupal BACnet, Energy, Smart Grid, Green Buildings, LEED, Energy Dashboards, Sustainability, architecture, Engineering, Internet of Things

During the Fall of 2014 Function1 teamed with the BACnet Group – Drupal, Acquia, and Commissioning & Green Building Solutions, Inc. (CxGBS®)  to submit a response to the GSA RFI Green Proving Ground program.  It required a “Title” so we called it “Open Energy - A New Paradigm for Energy Dashboards”. The GSA program leverages its real estate portfolio to evaluate innovative sustainable building technologies...

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A BACnet Spec for Drupal

Posted by David Thompson on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 12:43 Cool Tools, Development, Drupal, Function1 BACnet, Drupal, A BACnet Spec for Drupal, Energy, Smart Energy, Drupal Energy, Open Energy, BACnet Web Services

pittsburgh.pa.us | VIBRANT over the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers.

 

Pittsburgh is a cool city.  It has rivers, museums, tunnels, bridges, trolleys, universities, mountains, inclines, sport stadiums ... and from any of these you can glimpse its awesome skyline.  Internationally, it may best be known as home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. WIRED magazine listed it as a Top 10 Tech Town in the USA. But, before discussing the...

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A BACnet Module for Drupal

Posted by David Thompson on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 09:38 Drupal BACnet, Drupal, Energy Dashboards, Free, Energy Management, Facility Management, BTL, OpenEnergy

A new project unites technology of two of the world’s leading “open” communities; ASHRAE - in the form of the BACnet [1] open communication protocol and Drupal [2] - in the form of its open source content management system. The coupling of these two technologies and training of the user base can go a long way towards incentivizing efficient energy use patterns at commercial buildings that use BACnet compliant devices to manage such building systems as heating, cooling, dehumidification, utility metering, and ventilation.

The Drupal BACnet...

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