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THE ROLE OF IT IN AN
ENERGY EFFICIENT CAMPUS
Anita Nikolich & Ray Parpart
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Agenda
• University of Chicago
• Facilities' Goals
• IT Goals
• Growing Together
• Success Story: Building Mediator
• Energy Dashboard
• Where are We Headed
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The Role of IT in an
Energy Efficient Campus
• Are your IT and Facilities departments
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integrated?
Do you carry Modbus IP or BacNET on
your campus network?
Is your Facilities department having
discussions around IP-enabled devices
and data integration?
Does IT or Departments pay for utilities?
Are you gathering carbon footprint
details?
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University of Chicago Facts
Established
1892
Students
15,694
Faculty/Staff
2,200
Number of buildings
supported by Facilities
182
Average daily power
consumption
Est. 25 MW
IT Data Centers
power
1.36 MW
Carnegie
Classification
R1
*http://sustainability.uchicago.edu/campus/buildings.shtml
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Facilities’ Goals
• Reduce overall electricity costs
• Predictive load shedding
• “15 by 15” Initiative
• Reduce campus energy consumption by 15% by 2015
• Safety, Reliability, Cost savings
• Build a baseline of energy data for measurement & analysis
• Green building trend is here to stay - all new buildings LEED certified
• New construction LEED Policy
• How to maintain LEED through out the operational life of the building
• Collaboration with multiple University departments
• Better initial planning
• Reduce cost over runs for new buildings
• Measure Green House Gas
• Dedicated staff supporting effort
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IT Goals
Without IT paying a power bill,
what is the incentive to save?
• More efficient use of spaces that host
compute on campus
• Central IT – low consumption
relative to overall campus – 2.7MW
of 62 MW
• Virtualization is key. Over 1000 VMs
now – collapsing 100 cabinets into 3
• 20+ mini data centers on campus
• Work with facilities managers to
understand their planning and long
term goals
• Start early in the design phase for new
buildings and renovations
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How we have grown together
• IT Staff embedded with Facilities
• IT Liaison to Facilities
• IT Data Center - BAS integration
• All non-IT systems will be IT systems
• Facilities managed mechanical systems
• Leverage campus chilled water and steam plants
• Increased power to the compute floor
• Follow IT/security best practices
• Leverage the IP Network
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BAS (Building Automation Systems) Vendor Trends
• Developing tools converting years of
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trend data to usable models to
influence energy management.
Investing heavily on internal IT staff
Focusing on building efficiency and
lowering building operating costs
IT involved in vendor product
selection
IT leading multiple vendor systems for
data integration.
• Single Data Warehouse
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2011 Proof of Concept: Building Mediator
• Appliance with “any to any” protocol translation
• Common, standards-based, open platform that allows
enterprise applications, cloud services, and building/IT
systems to communicate.
• Provides a network-based framework that interconnects
Facilities subsystems:
• HVAC
• Lighting
• Metering
• 1 per building + Manager
• Can provide event reporting & dashboard
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Mediator Success Story: “Battle of the Bulbs”
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Real-time feedback to building occupants
Leverage occupant competitiveness
Allow for measurement of savings
Pro-active action towards energy
cost increases
Scope:
• 9 residence halls
• Baseline energy use 1 week prior
• 4 consecutive 1-week segments
• Highly engaged population
• Extreme actions observed:
• Group studying in library
• Frisbee outside instead of TV
• Distinct reductions visible on Dashboard to all students
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Mediator Dashboard Display
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Building Mediator Outcome
• Identification of chronic energy wasters
• Revealed incorrect power factor readings resulting in
higher utility charges
• Large influence in the continued efforts for an energy
dashboard for the University
• Building Re-commissioning Project
• Re-evaluating the control systems and all metering
• Decided to not go with Mediator – then product sold off by
Cisco!
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Battle of the Bulbs: Campus Implications
• Current usage = 300,000,000kWh
• Overall 5% saved in Battle of the Bulbs,
Translates to 5,000,000 kWh reduction if
implemented across campus dorms
• Equates to 22,500,000 lbs. or 11,250 tons of CO2
• Green effect: 56,350 trees (2x Central Park) or 48
earth orbits in a car
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Facilities Dashboard
• Implement a scalable system of
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energy dashboards
Data Warehousing strategy for
collection and trending of data from
current controls systems
A strategy to easily add future
energy dashboards to the network
Utilize high quality graphics to
display real-time, building energy
data: electricity, gas, CO2, heating,
cooling, water
Explain sustainable features of
buildings
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Where are we headed?
• Leverage IT infrastructure
• IP Network – eliminate vendor built network (i.e. Johnson Controls)
• Display energy consumption via dashboard
• Land fill reduction goal of 35% - IT help collect eWaste
• Energy modeling for new construction projects to earn
incentives from utility
• Energy rebate and audit programs
• Campus energy assessment
• Joint review of legacy data center
• Continued shared dependency on IT skill sets
• Database
• Analytics
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What can IT do?
• VoIP phones now power down at 6:00 pm
• Network switch power down
• Automated server shut down during low utilization
• Laptop/desktop automated shut down at night
• Reduce/eliminate printing
• Duplex printing standard
• Continued adoption of virtual machines for administrative
systems
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The Role of IT in an
Energy Efficient Campus
ANITA NIKOLICH
RAY PARPART
Executive Director
Assistant Director,
Data Center
Operations
Infrastructure Services
University of Chicago
1155 East 60th St.
Chicago, IL. 60637
(773) 702-7617 – office
[email protected]
University of Chicago
6045 S Kenwood
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-0914 – office
[email protected]
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Sustainability
• Create a model program integrating sustainability practices &
policies throughout the campus while applying a rigorous
measurement and evaluation process to ensure we are making
an impact.
• Working with Facilities to develop an IT departmental program
• No bottled water
• MFD’s (Multi-Function Devices)
• New desktop backup tool
• Public Greenhouse gas Inventor
• Create “good citizen” mentality
• Internal competition
• Extend to the campus!