6.2 Facility management framework
Gbots are already being used in many facilities to manage
energy, water, waste, and transport. They are invaluable
for the management of day-to-day processes such as
cleaning, complaints, and after-hours staffng; for the
management of routine processes such as maintenance,
monitoring and reporting; and for the management of
ad-hoc processes such as handover, audits, retrofts,
refurbishments, and dealing with plant breakdowns.
These tasks can be automated using the Galaxy event
management tools.
The framework is able to monitor processes in the
facility and the facility equipment such as chillers and
boilers. Customers are able to defne a range of graphs
of performance effciency for these elements based on
sophisticated analytical techniques such as calculating
specifc energy consumption, regression analysis and
targeting, deviation and cumulative sum (CUSUM), rule
based reporting and notifcation.
The energy analysis framework manages energy data
logging and data mining and provides knowledge base
mapping. It has preconfgured tools for building systems
performance analysis, base load analysis, gap analysis
and what-if analysis. There is a range of fnancial tools for
budgeting, forecasting, and tenant billing.
The energy analysis module provides the user with a great
deal of fexibility in how data is accessed and viewed.
It provides regular reports that can be customized for each
user, with pre-confgured indicators for energy usage,
environmental and climate impact. There is a centralized
energy usage information dissemination system that
can deliver an enormous variety of standard and user
confgurable energy analysis charts. For benchmarking
different buildings or sites, energy data can be normalized
by factors such as square footage, number of occupants,
outside air temperature, or degree days, and organized
into categories such as geographical region, building type,
or business type
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