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Building Dashboard® Network™ featured in Greentech Media
May 1, 2010
San Francisco, CA - Lucid Design Group's new Building Dashboard® Network™ is featured in a Greentech Media article, titled "Lucid Unveils Social Networking for Buildings," discussing Lucid's novel web-based network of building profile pages, apps and widgets for sharing and comparing resource use information. From the article:
"Tweeting your water use? You bet. Updating your Facebook status with how much you're saving on electricity? Go for it. But the software does not just play into pre-existing social networks, it also provides its own within Lucid's Building Dashboard interface.
"It's almost a little voyeuristic," said Michael Murray, Lucid's chief executive officer. "What means the most to people is not total kilowatt hours, because no one really understands what that means, it's how you compare to other people."
... "If graphs seem too vague, check out the animated gauges instead. When the little rubber ducky is donning a mask and snorkel instead of floating on top of the water's surface, it's probably a clear sign the building is using a greater-than-normal amount of water."
... "We wanted to give people tools to map the relationship between the buildings and be able to communicate, compete and track goals," said Vladi Shunturov, Lucid's Chief Technical Officer. "Data alone doesn't really motivate people."
... "The software has already been used in small competitions, but this year it will power a much larger showdown: the 2010 Campus Conservation Nationals, which pits about 40 U.S. universities against one another in a nationwide energy reduction competition in November."
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Greentech Media: Lucid Unveils Social Networking for Buildings
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company 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 seven 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.
