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Building Dashboard® for Yale residential colleges featured in Yale Daily News
January 13, 2010
New Haven, CT - Yale Daily News covers the installation of Building Dashboard® in Pierson and Silliman residential colleges at Yale University, where undergraduate student residents can view and compare building electricity, heating energy and cooling energy consumption on hallway monitors and the web. From the article:
The next time students in Pierson and Silliman colleges leave appliances plugged in over a break, they won’t be the only ones who know about it.
... Two real-time energy monitors will be installed in the entrances to the Pierson and Silliman dining halls by the week of Feb. 8, said Robert Ferretti, program manager at the Yale Office of Sustainability. The monitors should raise awareness, engage students and lead to energy-reducing behaviors in the colleges, he said.
... After the data is processed at the University’s central power plant on Grove Street, as well as by the Independent System Operator (ISO) New England grid, the energy monitors — designed by the Lucid Design Group — will allow students to see exactly how much energy they are using, Ferretti said. While in the past it was difficult to show students’ energy use because the data lagged by several months, the monitors will make it instantaneous, Ferretti said.
... “[Students] will see when they flick that light switch on it actually does make a difference,” he said.
... The installation of the two monitors is part of University President Richard Levin’s campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, Ferretti said.
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About Lucid Design Group
Lucid Design Group, Inc. is a privately held cleantech software company, founded in 2004, and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past six years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
