This ebook by Consulting – Specifying Engineering produced in collaboration with Siemens focuses on chiller energy optimization systems versus building automation systems, highlighting four demand factors beyond COVID-19 prevention for smart buildings. The report explains that a chiller energy optimization system continuously looks at all of the operating equipment and seeks to minimize the overall chiller plant electric demand. The technology has the ability to monitors and adjusts setpoints and equipment speeds, and it’s this flexible readjusting of established control loops that makes the device “smart” — a system working in conjunction with the BAS to optimize the operation of the chiller plant without human intervention.
Key words: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Controls/Sensors, Energy Management, HVAC, Intelligent Building, Internet of Things (IoT), Large Building Controls/Automation, Smart Grid, System Integrator, Zero Net Energy, Chiller Optimization, Greenhouse Gases