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Although my project started with the IT Building last year, we never really made any major steps forward. However, today, Dr. Bill let me in on another possible project involving the IT Building and G-pack. The goal would be to make those two buildings as sustainable as possible. Because the IT Building is currently running with sensors off of Elab, I am going to start with just taking the kWh averages for the IT Building today, next week, and mid-spring break. This way I can compare the use of the building during a full academic week, to the week of olympics where students are on campus but the computers are not in use, to mid-spring break, where students and teachers are not even on campus.
Solving the problem: Students will not be using the IT building on weekends or at night, so why have the AC on 24 hours a day? One solution to this is putting in a override X300 which is a timer that will set off the AC at appropriate times. Right now, the IT building costs the school about $4,000 a month due to energy use. With this project, it is possible to cut it down to $1,000. Over a year, that is enough to give a boarding student a free ride.
Because the Elab server has a polling time of 4 minutes instead of 5, like on the Elab2 server, the dividing number should be 15 instead of 12. Thus, making the equation:
samples/12(average)=average kWh
IT Building Averages-Week of March 1-7
| Daily Average of Thursday March 1st | 214.848 kWH |
|---|---|
| Daily Average of Friday March 2nd | 204.660784 kWh |
| **Daily Average of Saturday March 3rd | 150.073978 kWh |
| **Daily Average of Sunday March 4th | 131.691226 kWh |
| Daily Average of Monday March 5th | 232.292218 |
| Daily Average of Tuesday March 6th | 214.376371 kWh |
| Daily Average of Wednesday March 7th | 232.712525 kWh |
| WEEKLY AVERAGE | 197.246443 kWh |
**=School not in session/not academic work-day
| Daily Average March 10th | 221.727192 kWh |
|---|---|
| Daily Average March 11th | 0 kWh (?) |
| Daily Average March 12th | |
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| Daily Average March 15th | |
| Daily Average March 16th | |
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Due to complications with the sensors hooked up at the IT building, there has been no data available on the elab server.
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