Building energy information systems: User case studies

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-30

  Granderson, Jessica ^a   Piette, Mary Ann ^a   Ghatikar, Girish ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Baselining; Benchmarking; Diagnostics; Energy analysis; Energy efficiency; Energy information system; Enterprise energy management; Performance monitoring; Web based energy management and control system

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; BENCHMARKING; DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

BASELINING; ENERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MONITORING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BENCHMARKING; BUILDING; CONTROL SYSTEM; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78651296664     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-010-9084-4     Document Type: Article

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