Automation & Communication
OpenADR Communication Standards: Conformance Development and Evaluation
Create a framework for OpenADR conformance and certification and transfer the requirements and framework to standards organizations.
OpenADR Dynamic Pricing
This project will evaluate and use OpenADR for time-differentiated prices such as time-of-use and real-time pricing model framework as proof-of-concept interface.
OpenADR New Construction Concepts and Materials / Implementing Demand Response in Title 24 and LEED
This project supports OpenADR deployment in new constructions by providing:
- OpenADR specifications for new construction OpenADR concepts for codes and standards;
- Opportunity Assessment for Case Studies;
- OpenADR coordination with US Green Building Council’s LEED certification.
The purpose of the first phase of this project was to implement automated demand response strategies in California’s Title 24 (Building Energy Code). The first success for this project was the inclusion of Global Temperature Adjustment in the 2008 edition of Title 24. Next steps are to develop plans to incorporate the standard data model, OpenADR, into Title 24.
OpenADR Standard
This project supports participation and contribution in OASIS and UCAIug for OpenADR standards development, additional outreach, advancement and deployment.
OpenSource DRAS
Subcontractor: UISOL Phase I: Study of issues related to development of an open source implementation of the OpenADR specification (completed). Phase II: Development of OpenSource DRAS.
Proof of Concept Demonstration of New Wireless Protocols
Subcontractor: Charles Glorioso 1) Explore reliability and robustness of low-level protocol (ISO layer 2) used for inter node communication for energy monitoring and control applications. 2) Implement the most promising of these protocols, 802.15.4e, on a suitable hardware platform and demonstrate its effectiveness in a suitable energy monitoring/control context.
Demand Response Automation Server Projects (2004 - 2008)
Combines Price Server, DRAS, DRAS 2007, DRAS 2008.
Wireless Demand Response Controls for HVAC Systems
The objectives of this scoping study were to develop and test control software and wireless hardware that could enable closed-loop, zone-temperature-based demand response in buildings that have either pneumatic controls or legacy digital controls that cannot be used as part of a demand response automation system. We designed a SOAP client that is compatible with the Demand Response Automation Server (DRAS) being used by the IOUs in California for their CPP program, design the DR control software, investigated the use of cellular routers for connecting to the DRAS, and tested the wireless DR system with an emulator running a calibrated model of a working building. The results show that the wireless DR system can shed approximately 1.5 Watts per design CFM on the design day in a hot, inland climate in California while keeping temperatures within the limits of ASHRAE Standard 55: Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy.
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