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Lucid Design Group targets broader market with Building Dashboard® Reseller Program
November 10, 2009
Oakland, CA - Lucid Design Group, Inc. today announced it is broadening its target market through a reseller program that will enable qualified commercial building energy efficiency service providers to offer their customers Building Dashboard®, Lucid’s award-winning real-time energy monitoring and display product for commercial buildings.
“Building Dashboard has generated tremendous enthusiasm on college campuses across the U.S. by showing students, faculty and administration how energy is being used, and inspiring competitions and other activities to drive down costs and carbon emissions,” said Michael Murray, Lucid’s CEO. “As demand for Building Dashboard in commercial buildings continues to grow, the Building Dashboard Reseller Program will enable us to expand Lucid’s offering even further.”
Murray said Building Dashboard will be offered via resellers to large companies, public buildings, K-12 schools, and other facilities where there is increasing scrutiny on energy spending.
Building Dashboard provides a simple and intuitive web-based display with real-time feedback on resource use. The information is updated every 60 seconds and can be viewed over the web. Comparisons can be made by the hour, day, week, month or year. Usage can be expressed in energy units, cost, carbon emissions or other measurements. Interactive touch screens can be placed in public areas for users to explore where and how energy is being used.
As energy savings programs are introduced by facilities managers, Building Dashboard can facilitate energy reductions by enhancing monitoring and verification of building systems, and by empowering building occupants to change their behavior.
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group has demonstrated strong success and momentum in the college and university market, where it is the leader in real-time energy displays. Building Dashboard can be found today in more than 250 buildings on scores of college campuses and companies across the U.S., with more being added each month.
The Building Dashboard Reseller Program enables third parties to offer Building Dashboard directly to their customers, with the reseller’s branding. Building Dashboard is for any building, including “brown” buildings that are not already energy-efficient. Reseller partners can manage the installation of Lucid’s hardware and software solution at the customer site or configure the customer’s building automation system to interoperate with Building Dashboard.
As part of the reseller program, resellers will be able to offer monitoring of electricity usage as well as water, heating, cooling, solar energy produced, natural gas and other resources. The product is available today.
Lucid has found that companies that provide energy efficiency services see Building Dashboard as a critical element in their portfolio of energy solutions. For example, Uihlein Electric, a 98-year-old electrical contracting company, based in Wisconsin, recently repositioned the company to provide much-needed energy efficiency solutions for its customers. It uses Building Dashboard as a part of its solution for customers.
“Lucid has made it easy to offer its Building Dashboard product to our customers,” said Tim Rigsby, president and CEO of Uihlein Electric. “Providing an easy-to-understand display of energy usage that helps show and quantify savings from our solutions is a critical element of our offering. Already we have identified a large number of customers who are eager to include the Building Dashboard as part of their overall solution.”
Uihlein Electric, one of Lucid’s first reseller partners, is a certified reseller of Building Dashboard, and is Lucid’s preferred reseller in the state of Wisconsin.
“We have seen tremendous demand for our product in the past 18 months,” Murray said. “By working closely with companies that provide energy solutions, we can better quantify and display the energy savings, provide a critical element to their solution, and help further reduce energy use with customers.”
Lucid’s award-winning Building Dashboard is designed such that customers can easily customize their solution for their specific needs, including single building or campus-wide implementations. Add-on software modules, like Lucid’s Data Downloader, Green Features module or Competition module can be added separately.
For more information, please visit Lucid's Partners pages.
About Lucid Design Group
Lucid Design Group is a privately held cleantech software company, founded in 2004, and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire change and save resources. Over the past five years, our team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the tools to reduce and manage their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial centers and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its third generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows you to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
