Product Development

AEC Software Development Capabilities [18kb ]

Representative products developed by AEC include the following:

• ENFORMA Building Diagnostics — Developed by AEC, ENFORMA Building Diagnostics (EBD) utilizes data from your existing building automation system (BAS) to automatically and continuously identify energy inefficiencies and their financial impacts. EBD has automated the manual performance analysis process with sophisticated algorithms that identify problems often undetected by existing methods (e.g. BAS and manual monitoring), even in new and recently re-commissioned buildings.

• MicroDataNet Systems (MDNS) — MDNS is a wireless data acquisition product line providing users with time sensitive information over the Internet from equipment located anywhere in the world. Using spread spectrum wireless technology, AEC has developed an extraordinary combination of hardware and software equipment that communicates through the World Wide Web using electromagnetic waves.

  With MicroDataNet monitors, valuable information is displayed and continuously updated on a secure website. For retail, restaurant, or corporate managers looking for opportunities to impact equipment operations, MicroDataNet Systems provides the ability to monitor cooking, energy, facility, or office equipment located across the country from the comfort of your computer.

• D-Gen Pro — Developed by AEC, D-Gen Pro is the premier software tool for determining the economic feasibility of distributed power generation. Working in conjunction with Gas Technology Institute (GTI), AEC created D-Gen Pro to quickly and easily evaluate the cost-effective application of on-site and distributed power generation. AEC originally created the D-Gen Pro software with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) funding from GTI and developed later versions with GTI and AEC co-funding. However, ownership of the software resides with GTI.

• SPOT™ - Sensor Placement and Optimization Tool — The Sensor Placement + Optimization Tool or SPOT™ is intended to assist a designer in quantifying the existing or intended electric lighting and annual daylighting characteristics of a given space and to help establish the optimal photosensor placement for the space relative to annual performance and annual energy savings.

  SPOT was developed with classroom daylighting in mind, but can be used for all types of spaces. SPOT handles top and side daylight sources and can model any electric lighting source.

• LightLouver™ Daylighting System — this daylighting system uses passive side lighting optics to daylight the space. Daylighting reduces energy consumption while enhancing the quality of the commercial visual environment. The LightLouver Daylighting System can be as easily applied as conventional internal mini-blinds for both new and retrofit construction. In addition to the significant energy savings benefits, the LightLouver Daylighting System provides productivity, health, and environmental (pollution reduction) benefits to building owners.

• Performance Home™ — Developed for Johns Manville, the software calculates the energy and economic performance of envelope insulation packages and other improvements to residential buildings.

• WattWiser™ Monitoring System — Conceptualized as a single-phase electrical monitoring device, the WattWiser Monitoring System allows monitoring of several plug loads located throughout a building. The data from these loads are collected and available at a central location without any wiring required between the individual monitoring devices and the central data collection device. The data can be accessed directly through graphing software or other data visualization means, or remotely by using a dial-up modem.

  The compelling feature of this system is that wiring between the monitoring points and the central data collection device is not required, which vastly decreases the time required to install the monitoring system and reduces the obtrusiveness wired systems can cause.

• Comfort Advisor™ Service — created exclusively for myFacilities.com, the Comfort Advisor™ Service provided facility managers with a quick, simple, and cost-effective way to document conditions in a building's "problem" area, and receive objective analysis and recommendations for solving the problem — all using Internet access. The engineers at my.Facilities.com analyzed customer data and posted the results online at their web site for review within 24 hours of receiving the Comfort Advisor unit from their customer.