Pacific Controls XaaS Cloud Offerings to the World
Pacific Controls cloud computing helps corporate, enterprises, private, public and government sectors transform their thoughts into reality and connect millions of devices, assets, IT services, software services, platform services and to say in single one word “Everything as a Service” through its universal cloud computing platform. With Pacific Controls Cloud computing services and capabilities, you can transform your business and reach virtually anywhere consolidating all the assets in the world virtually in a matter of minutes, need not to be IT enabled as rest of the cloud providers are offering.Pacific Controls XaaS is a collective term said to stand for a number of things including "X as a service," "anything as a service" or "everything as a service." The acronym refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site.
Pacific Controls XaaS is the essence of cloud computing. The service examples of XaaS are Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). The combined use of these three is sometimes referred to as the SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
Pacific Controls has packaged the service spectrum and delivers IaaS, PaaS and SaaS over its hybrid cloud. Pacific Controls rolled out SaaS service in the year 2005 where Pacific Controls delivered real time monitoring and management services by connecting their assets and infrastructure on a single platform. Pacific Controls is monitoring and managed thousand of assets live over internet and connected to our Cloud enabled Data Centers in the Middle East and rest of the world.
Pacific Controls Cloud services which have all the services consolidated in a single platform transforming the world as a XaaS (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) as the major stream of services and other services in the realm of continuous monitoring and management of energy services bundled with dynamic end to end platform called as “Galaxy” supported by intelligent and virtual software agents called as “Gbots”.
The Evolution of Cloud
IaaS is virtualization offered as a service. Instead of spending on hardware, software licenses, storage, or network equipment a user can buy all these as a service over Pacific Controls cloud.
PaaS aims to abstract things more than IaaS. Instead of providing bare “logical” metal as a service, it delivers an application platform which one can use to implement apps. User don’t work anymore (at least not directly) with the typical concepts like server, OS, and so on. Some kind of abstraction is usually available which hides all these. On top of it, several services are provided in order to shield you from “classical” infrastructure management. We are thinking here about virtual machine provisioning, load balancing, guest OS patching, and the like. In a sense, PaaS services from Pacific Controls offers an OS for the data center where:
• Instead of the classical resources (CPU,memory, I/O) users are abstracting servers
• Instead of the classical OS abstraction layers you have an agent infrastructure that is capable of abstracting the concept of a virtual server into a higher level element (like role for example)
• Instead of the classical OS API you have a set of complex services that you can use as building blocks for your apps
Finally, Pacific Controls SaaS is at the highest level available where users get the direct services of an application online, without any kind of implementation effort. Opposed to IaaS, there’s no need to manage infrastructure. Opposed to PaaS, there’s no need to develop and/or manage applications. It’s simply there so you can use it.
The second dimension of cloud computing refers to the place where XaaS’s are deployed. Public and private are the most common places Pacific Controls are talking about today. What’s interesting is what you get when you put these dimensions in perspective:
| IaaS | PaaS | SaaS | |
| Public |
Pacific Controls initiative long back in this dimension initially
via managed energy hosting services and more recently via virtualization |
Pacific Controls have the strength to consolidate energy, computing power and storage at a large scale | Pacific Controls gained a lot of momentum when they decided to update complex on-premises apps and make them available online |
| Community | Pacific Controls strength in public sector where different organizations (like government agencies) share the same needs and interest on IaaS | Pacific Controls initiative to make PaaS a reality integrating several services within ICT realm | Pacific Controls extremely lower cost drive this approach |
| Hybrid | Consolidation between public and private | IaaS runs on top with Pacific Controls dynamic services | Transit from on-premises implementations to public ones. |
| Private | Initiated through virtualization software with stringent SLA | A reality subject to secure access and CIA | Pacific Controls doing this from a long time in the form of software and hardware virtualized appliances. |
While the ‘as a Service’ models are distinct and separate within the public
cloud environments, the enterprise level (private and commercial) cloud is
an implementation of nested capabilities from using IaaS as the foundation.
PaaS is built upon IaaS taking advantage of consistent implementations and
architectural models. Likewise, SaaS is built upon PaaS for much of the same
reasons. There are exceptions, but those remain outside the scope in this
discussion.
XaaS executed through a Cloud environment is simply more cost-effective than
executing IT initiatives internally.
Traditional technology deployments happen with a high ramp-up cost and a
long implementation curve before a company gains capabilities from the
technology to offset costs. With XaaS, the formula is pay-as-you-go with ease
and peace. The financial benefits of the pay-as-you-go models are a core
argument for utility computing. The initial starts up costs for XaaS models
are friendlier to the customer (service consumer) than the traditional,
up-front loaded stovepipe implementations.
There are three key considerations to be evaluated when looking at
implementations:
Consideration #1: Initial Cost Barriers and Planning
The cost model of a traditional implementation involves an initial capital
expenditure with extended ROI implications.
Consideration #2: The Illusion of Infinite Capabilities
Cloud challenges and changes the cost model from the consumer standpoint to
one that is well-aligned with the preferred rapid ROI models that businesses
desire. While there may be an initial period where cost exceeds benefit /
revenue, the gap between the two is much less than that of a dedicated
capital expenditure model.
Consideration #3: Easy Exit Strategy
The final element to consider in dedicated solution sets versus cloud
environments is that of commitment. Dedicated environments tend to remain
and extend often from the tie to the investment. On the other hand, cloud
workloads can quickly be retired from use without the loss of physical
infrastructure capital investment.
Pacific Controls Services on Private/Public/XaaS Cloud
Platform Services
Pacific Controls provide multiple platform options that provide customers
with the control, flexibility, security and scalability that they need to
meet their business needs. We provide customers with the Platform Options,
Services and Support they need to ensure infrastructure is instantly
available to help run or support their business – not restrict fast-growth,
productivity or response times to clients.
| Cloud Cloud Energy & Performance Cloud Dedicated Cloud Hybrid |
Managed Hosting
Managed Hosting Solutions Managed Private Cloud Managed Collocation |
MANAGED HOSTING
Customized dedicated server configurations, fully redundant and managed
24x7x365 by certified and highly skilled workforce supported by virtual
managed robots monitoring the servers round the clock with proactive alarm
and troubleshooting.
Pacific Controls dedicated hosting solutions combine advanced technology,
proven experience and unparalleled support. Pacific Controls tailor
customer’s solution to fit their security, availability, elasticity and
performance needs.
With a customized, dedicated solution, expert migration team and hosted
support staff, customers can rest assured the transition to a managed
hosted environment will be smooth and the technology supporting your
business is reliable, scalable, and expertly maintained by a team of server
engineers.
Managed hosting solutions demand continuous maintenance, security and
monitoring. We have managed dedicated server, storage and networking
solutions from alliances with industry leaders like VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu
and others. Enterprise class IT infrastructure is designed to ensure the
highest levels of manageability, security and scalability.
MANAGED HOSTING SOLUTION INCLUDES:
• Windows Server / Red Hat Linux
• Administrative privileges
• Expert support, 24x7x365
• Proactive Security Patching and monitoring
• 100% systems and uptime as per SLA
• Hardware replacement guarantee as per the services chosen.
• Managed backup, restore and archival
• Monitoring on the server selected
• Front end Pacific Controls Portal
SERVICES OF MANAGED HOSTING...
Managed Private and Public Clouds
Clouds are everywhere, but what exactly is a private cloud? – A private
cloud is a dedicated hardware enabled pooled resources with virtualization
layer running on top which gives flexibility to the cloud admin to create
and managed multiple virtual servers/machines within a set of physical
servers. Since it is dedicated only for single customers, it’s only for you
and only you.
A Public Cloud is opened to any customer who wants to host their services in
our highly virtualized environment supported by managed and highly redundant
servers, storage and networking domain. Pacific Controls public cloud is
secure, scalable and robust and hosts thousand of virtual instances with
inbuilt tightly controlled policies and procedures.
Extremely large workload and sensitive applications are running on Pacific
Controls Private and Public Cloud
Hybrid Clouds is the essence in the realm of cloud computing. In private
cloud each customer is physically separated on their own dedicated hardware
whereas in public cloud the entire virtual instances are shared among large
isolated secure pools. High levels of security, availability, performance
and customization is provided on the dedicated hardware. However it is
scalable and made elastic, optimize hardware resources and get billing for
virtual machines—which are the benefits customers can get.
PACIFIC CONTROLS PROPOSITIONS FOR PRIVATE & PUBLIC CLOUD:
• Windows and Non windows OS support running on each virtual machine.
• You can provision new VM’s and select value added services on top of it.
• Manage and support virtual machines with change configuration round the
clock.
• Complete assistance and remote hands on to configure and deploy private
cloud configuration.
• Software license management.
• Procure hardware as per the requirement.
• Manage the entire systems, network infrastructure round the clock.
• Provide industry leading SLAs and guarantees.
COMPLETE PACKAGE IN A SINGLE UNIFIED SOLUTION – PRIVATE & PUBLIC CLOUD
• Virtualization Platform from industry leaders in the market – Dynamic
allocation of computing resources with high availability and fault tolerance
features.
• Single and multi tenant dedicated/shared secure environment
• Team of experts with many years of hands-on experience in virtualization
• Virtualization, Abstraction and consolidation layer supported round the
clock
• Twin fold advantages introducing hybrid solution that integrated with
managed hosting and cloud solution.
• Complete control on owned VM’s including scalability at ease on resources
• Safely online backup on snapshots with easy restore in minutes
• Other Managed Hosting Services with security, manageability and high
availability.
• Powered by industry leading Virtualization technologies. Not binded with
single virtualization provider.
MANAGED COLOCATION
Pacific Controls Colocation takes Colocation to the highest level. In our
Tier-3 Colocation space customer’s equipment rest in our state-of-the-art
data center with world-class management of systems, network devices, data
and voice devices. Trust Pacific Controls to guard and connect your
mission-critical data assets.
Location is very critical when providing network and systems services.
Proximity to your key markets or customers with fast, reliable connectivity
is a proven strategy. But how can you outsource and expand your ICT
infrastructure without worrying about security and support? And how can you
extend your data center, complex networks, or cloud offerings when your ICT
resources are already stretched to the limit?
Pacific Controls has the answers. We provide highly redundant and dynamic
colocation facilities and services with the power and security to guard and
connect your data assets – so you can have peace of mind as you bring your
data center and hosting services closer to your customers.
Our state-of-the-art Cloud enabled Tier-3 Data Centers offer a fully
redundant facility in which corporate customers can house their hardwares.
The systems and network devices housed within Pacific Controls data center
are monitored and managed 24x7x365 days a year with committed SLA.
The facility is powered by an N+1 redundant system that includes
Uninterruptable Power Supplies, battery backups and diesel generators. Our
network connectivity features multiple Gigabit Ethernet connections
connected using a redundant routing architecture, which features hardware
failover.
The datacenter consist of over 60,000 square feet of space utilizing a
redundant environmental control system, FM-200 gas fire suppression system
and raised flooring to control steady air flow. The facility is secured with
proximity card entry, camera-recorded server room access, and a perimeter
security system.
Customizable Colocation Solutions
Pacific Controls Customizable colocation features:
• Multi-homed Internet from Diverse Providers
• Advanced cross connect options
• No automatic overage charges or hidden fees
• Dedicated account representative
• Colocation available in single rack units
Our Solutions are:
• Built with best practice expertise in providing dynamic virtual and
dynamic data center solutions.
• Enterprise class and secure infrastructure with resilient hardware and
software platform.
• Governed by SLAs and service contracts (High level SLA’s depending on the
services chosen).
• Constructed to individual or community (Govt/Private/Public) requirements.
• World class cross virtualization platform providing technology savings,
energy and carbon reductions, improvement in IT operations and faster
delivery of business systems
• Server, Storage and Network virtualization with remote administration
technologies
• Transparent billing available to the customers on the portal
• Support and provision of operating systems and applications
• Remote hands-on support 24x7x365 days.
PACIFIC CONTROLS COLOCATION ADVANTAGE
Pacific Controls have designed world-class colocation facility in US and UAE.
Choose Pacific Controls and reduce the cost of building your own facility
and maintaining your own in-house dedicated servers.
Pacific Controls colocation provides these business benefits:
• Get scalable systems and network performance, lower systems and network
costs and proven redundancy for mission critical applications through
Pacific Controls robust colocation facility.
• Connect with multiple carriers, ISPs, content providers and to any
location over internet and our owned MPLS in a secure and reliable
environment. Reduce network costs by replacing local loops with less
expensive and more flexible connectivity options.
• Connect quickly and seamlessly through fast, reliable networks to support
faster time-to-market for new services.
• Protect your valuable data assets with Pacific Controls Business
Continuity and disaster management, alarm module and systems, redundancies,
and diversification of communications technologies – including the highest
level of backup power and power generators.
EXPERTS YOU CAN COUNT ON
Pacific Controls on-site teams of level 2 & 3 engineers are responsible for
installing, managing, updating and monitoring security patches, as well as
service pack testing and installation. We help our valuable customers to
understand and plan your infrastructure roll-out to scale according to your
needs, meet security concerns, and build in the right amount of reliability
you need to ensure your business applications are always up and running.
ROUND THE CLOCK SUPPORT
We are experts in all ICT domains and have unique propositions in providing
automated support which are highly advanced and binded with high level
internal and external SLA. We know our customers have more important things
to do than worry about their servers. Pacific Controls engineers monitor
equipment round the clock and analyze customer’s data and performance
metrics through our universal revolutnized monitoring platforms built to
inform you on your assets and issues. We are dedicated to providing you with
prompt support solutions—most of the time fixing an issue before it even
becomes a problem.
A CLOUD WITH A DIFFERENCE
Pacific Controls Cloud services are the unique offerings to the enterprise,
private, public and Govt. sectors that address issues of consistent
performance, migration, compliance, management, and SLAs that allow even the
most regulated industries to fully embrace the power and elasticity of
modern cloud computing.
Enjoy Unparalleled Service & Support
Whether you need a simple two server solution, space, processor, memory or
multiple load-balanced server configurations with custom firewalls, Pacific
Controls can design the perfect solution.
Pacific Controls support Service assigns a dedicated team of server, storage
and network engineers and a shift-wise support supervisor who work closely
with our customers worldwide whenever you require assistance. A unique
contact number and customer portal makes it easy to get instant support.
Multitenancy
The Secure Multi-Tenancy architecture provides a single shared data center
infrastructure with the following benefits:
• High availability and scalability
• High security with multi fold layers
• Efficiency and flexibility
• Service assurance
The enhanced secure multi-tenancy architecture supports enterprise
applications from server to the storage to the network elements or virtual
desktop. The architecture scales up and down as needed. It also meets the
performance, availability, automation, and security service-level
requirements of individual applications required to deliver ITSM as a
security.
The Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy design guide includes information about:
• Enterprise resource dynamic allocation: Each isolated application workload
is validated in a shared environment for windows and non windows platforms
seamlessly.
• Unified System network adapters: A single network adapter may have
numerous virtual interfaces with separate access lists and granular
permissions.
• Enhanced multi-layer security: Strengthen security by employing virtual
appliances such as VMware vShield, Storage slicing and dynamic allocation of
resources in compartments tightly integrated with network and systems layer.
• Enhanced DR/DP: Perform tenant backup and replication with SnapDrive and
Snap Manager.
• Virtual Cloud: Provides self-service provisioning for development and test
environments.
• Open Management Framework helps enable third-party service management of
the Secure Multi-Tenancy architecture, using storage, compute, network, and
cloud APIs.
Performance
Built atop a state of the art cloud infrastructure, virtual machines hosted
in the Pacific Controls Cloud have dynamic superior performance across the
globe. Pacific Controls Cloud users experience consistent fast I/O and low
network latency, making the Pacific Controls Cloud dynamic and elastic
solution to augment your infrastructure needs with added capacity and power
when you need it.
Dynamic Smart virtual Instances
Pacific Controls Cloud virtual instances have intelligent management layer
(virtual robots) which continuously work at the background to resize CPU
allocation to ensure our customers applications, databases and high end ERP,
CRM and critical applications are never starved for resources. Also, in the
event of a host or resource failure, the system automatically migrates and
restores instance to minimize any downtime and provides two level of high
availability – HA( High Availability) and FT( Fault Tolerance).
Compliance in the Cloud
Pacific Controls Cloud Services is fully complied with regulatory standards.
Cloud services are enabled in our state-of-the-art Tier-3 secure and robust
data center with internal and external controls are standardized to meet a
Type II SAS70 audit and Tier-3 uptime Institute.
SLA SUPPORT AVAILABLE – 24X7X365
Pacific Controls is not just elastic computing— Our customers get an elastic
IT Operations team that helps you ensure your SLAs. You will have the
complete support of all the Pacific Controls expert systems, storage,
virtualization and network management skilled engineers who are on-hand
around the clock to assist you with common challenges on infrastructure
planning, optimization of deployment, configuration, monitoring and general
maintenance of all your IT infrastructure.
SAAS (SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE) - UNIQUE OFFERINGS IN THE CLOUD COMPUTING
WORLD
EXISTING SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE PACKAGES
A CLOUD WITH SUBSTANCE – MANAGED ENERGY SERVICE OFFERINGS
• Measurement and Verification
• Energy Analytics
• Failure Detection and Diagnostics
• Continuous Commissioning
• Carbon Analytics
We are the pioneers in providing our customers managed energy services with
our universal platform called “Galaxy” and powered by “Gbots” which are the
real engine behind our automated and dynamic offerings to
connect,collect,analyze and save assets energy real-time supported by highly
skilled subject matter experts working at the background.
MEASUREMENT AND VERIFICATION
One of our base service offering is Measurement and Verification (M&V). With
M&V Pacific Controls remotely measure and verify all key building
performance parameters including energy consumption, equipment performance
and building comfort. They provide graphics and reports that benchmark
facilities against Department of Energy data, as well as comparing
performance of buildings within the portfolio (if applicable). M&V
facilitates the identification of performance anomalies and allows
corrective action resulting in decreased operating expenses, 24 hours a day,
every day.
GALAXY MEASUREMENT AND VERIFICATION ACTIVITIES
The Galaxy service delivery platform (SDP) performs automated measurement
and verification services through the following processes.
BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION BASE-LINING
• Create model of building energy consumption based on past performance.
• Compare model performance against relevant benchmarks.
• Produce a daily forecast for future energy consumption based on model and
average of past 5 years’ average temperature.
BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS
• Compare (1) previous day’s energy consumption versus (2) model consumption
forecast and (3) model consumption based on the actual temperature.
• Provide actuals and projection for month-to-date and year-to-date
consumption.
• Identify and communicate anomalies in performance.
• Calculate results of energy conservation measures.
PORTFOLIO ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS
• Calculate the weighted average across all buildings for the previous day’s
energy consumption versus model consumption. Weighting is based on the
relative energy consumption of each building.
• Drillable from Portfolio, to Region, and so on down to Building level.
• Compares drill-down energy consumption versus model relative to the entire
Portfolio
BUILDING COMFORT ANALYSIS
• Computes the percentage of time that building has been within acceptable
range around the temperature set points within the facility
• Demonstrates performance for entire building, and by individual floors.
• Identifies and communicates anomalies in performance.
PORTFOLIO COMFORT ANALYSIS
• Computes the weighted average percentage of time that the buildings within
the Portfolio have been within the acceptable range around the set point.
Weighting is based on the relative energy consumption of each building.
• Drillable from Portfolio, to Region, and so on down to Building level.
• Identify and communicate anomalies in performance.
BENEFITS REALIZED
• Immediate identification of Building Performance Drift.
• Rapid and accurate validation of Energy Conservation Measures implemented.
• Increased accuracy of energy consumption forecasting based on current
building consumption model.
• Verification that ECM’s implemented do not negatively impact tenant
comfort.
ENERGY ANALYTICS
Our profound Energy Analytics for individual buildings/portfolios provides
web-based performance dashboards and analysis; assessing energy consumption,
demand and associated expense. Our analytics demonstrate when and where
energy is being consumed, and how the volume and cost of energy can be
optimized.
GALAXY ENERGY ANALYTICS ACTIVITIES
The Galaxy service delivery platform (SDP) builds upon the base energy
analysis performed under Measurement and Verification with the following
energy analytics.
BUILDING DEMAND ANALYSIS
• Graphical analysis of yesterday’s demand profile versus average demand
profile for the same day of week over the past four weeks
• Chart of rolling 12 months for peak demand, drillable down to the lowest
sampling rate available
• Chart of rolling 12 months for load factor (i.e. kW average divided by kW
maximum), drillable down to day of the month
• Graphical analysis of the demand profile for the previous seven days.
Identifies building start and stop time, allows comparison of weekday
performance versus weekend
BUILDING LOAD ANALYSIS
• Compare different the relative magnitude of different load types within
the building based on the level of sub-metering available. Provide relative
consumption of HVAC equipment, lighting, plug and other loads.
• Identify changes in consumption rates of the different systems month over
month
• Compare operating hours of different floors, identify anomalies in
operating hours
BUILDING UTILITY BILL ANALYSIS
• Graphical analysis of this year’s actual bill, versus last years, versus
the forecast for this year based on last year’s model. This is shown in a
month by month fashion, and cumulative to demonstrate the trends.
• Break apart utility bill to identify portion attributed to distribution
versus generation, as well as demand charges versus overall consumption to
identify focus for savings opportunities.
PORTFOLIO ENERGY ANALYTICS
• Calculates the utility consumption and bill for the entire portfolio by
summing up the
data for all buildings within the portfolio.
• Drillable from Portfolio, to Region, and so on down to Building level
BENEFITS REALIZED
• Automated daily assessment of the building’s consumption pattern relative
to recent performance on same day of week, alerts sent to building operators
upon identification of anomalies
• Evaluation of building consumption profile to determine opportunities to
reduce utility bills through sequencing of equipment and other strategies
• Increased accuracy of annual utility expense forecasting based on current
building consumption model
• Validation of utility bill readings and detection of billing errors
FAILURE
DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS
We identify equipment and/or system failure in real time, automatically
assessing the root cause within seconds. Results are delivered via email or
text message to appropriate personnel for correction, and both the event and
subsequent resolution are tracked by Galaxy. This optimizes the speed and
accuracy of resolution, increasing tenant comfort while minimizing downtime.
GALAXY™ FAILURE DETECTION & DIAGNOSTICS ACTIVITIES
The Galaxy™ service delivery platform (SDP) performs automated assessment of
equipment failures sensed through the building automation system, providing
root cause and tracking the event from identification to resolution
employing the following systems and tools.
RULES FLOW ANALYSIS
• BAS alarms are passed into Galaxy from the Edge Device, and are
automatically assessed and compiled into distinct equipment failure events
• Failure events are communicated to building operators and management as
designated by the Client via email and SMS
EVENT MANAGEMENT
• Failure events are time-stamped and logged within the Event Management
System
• Within the system, event actions and time of resolution are recorded
• Active events are placed in a prioritized dashboard for review of building
management
BUILDING EQUIPMENT HEALTH METRIC
• Equipment health for the building is measured as a weighted average of the
uptime of the different HVAC equipment units within the facility
• This metric is calculated on a monthly and annualized basis, and is rolled
up from the building level to the Region and ultimately the Portfolio
PROPOSED BENEFITS
• Reduction of man hours required to troubleshoot and repair equipment on
breakdown, resulting in reduced 3rd party contracting expense and overtime
hours for in-house personnel
• Accurate dispatch of the right-skilled person to handle equipment failures
reduces maintenance expense associated with having multiple personnel to
validate, assess and repair one problem
• Ability to accurately measure and communicate adherence to service level
agreements (SLA)
• Ability to validate man-hours and dollars on repair bills received from
CONTINUOUS COMMISSIONING
We view continuous commissioning as the practice of continually monitoring
system performance versus specified performance/best practices, to ensure
optimum operating efficiency. This identifies operating anomalies allowing
prompt correction thereby ensuring tenant comfort and optimal use of energy.
GALAXY CONTINUOUS COMMISSIONING
ACTIVITIES
The Galaxy™ service delivery platform (SDP) performs automated assessment of
building automation systems, subsystems and individual machines/devices and
analyzes current performance versus design specifications and operating
environment through the following processes.
AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS
• The measurement and interpolation of daily consumption and operating
characteristics
• Comparing recorded values to specifications, building averages and past
performance
• Automatic determination of performance variance(s) and the creation of
recommended improvement actions
• Quantifying the value of improvement actions
• Production of a prioritized list of recommended improvement actions
• Verifying impact of improvement actions
AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT THERMAL TRANSFER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
• Measure daily operating characteristics of equipment
• Compare values to specifications and past performance
• Determine variance in performance, align to energy findings and propose
improvement actions
• Quantify the value of improvement actions
• Provide a prioritized list of improvement actions
• Verify action completion
AUTOMATED ON-DEMAND EXERCISING OF EQUIPMENT (I.E. EQUIPMENT FOUND TO BE POOR
PERFORMING, CHANGE OF SEASONS...)
• Run automated test and capture resulting data at specified period
• Compare results to expectations
• Log equipment results that are not performing within tolerance
• Provide list of poor performing equipment
SENSOR FAILURE ANALYSIS
• Compare sensor output versus instrument range
• Log sensors that are inoperative
• Provide a list of inoperative sensors for replacement
SPACE TEMPERATURE SET POINT ANALYSIS
• Verify unoccupied and occupied setpoints are appropriately configured
• Verify heating and cooling setpoints
• Log setpoints that are out of tolerance for validation from field
operations
• Re-configure set points that are confirmed to be misapplied
EVENT MANAGEMENT
• Commissioning opportunities are time-stamped and logged within the Event
Management System to be tracked, which is particularly important as these
items do not need to be addressed immediately and the work can be grouped
with other work at a later date
• Within the system, event actions and time of resolution are recorded
• Active events are placed in a prioritized dashboard for review of building
management
PROPOSED BENEFITS
• Reduced energy cost through optimal equipment operation
• Improved occupant comfort through
• Reduced maintenance cost and better maintenance planning through shift to
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Improved indoor environmental quality by insuring proper ventilation,
temperature and humidity control.
• Better control of capital expense budget process through planned system
upgrades based on actual equipment operating information.
CARBON ANALYTICS
Through
compilation and assessment of actual facility operations and occupancy data,
we calculate Carbon Footprint of a building and ultimately portfolios.
Displays/dashboards/reports placed in common areas so that building
occupants can view the facility’s Carbon Footprint demonstrating the
client’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
GALAXY™ CARBON ANALYTICS ACTIVITIES
BUILDING CARBON FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS
• Scope 2 carbon emission data is drawn in automatically from the BMS
• Scope 1 and 3 carbon emission data can be manually uploaded from other
systems or spreadsheets on a regular basis
• Compare (1) previous day’s Carbon Footprint versus (2) model consumption
forecast and (3) model consumption based on the actual temperature
• Provide actuals and projection for month-to-date and year-to-date Carbon
Footprint
• Identify and communicate anomalies in performance
• Calculate results of carbon reduction efforts
PORTFOLIO CARBON FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS
• Calculate the weighted average across all buildings for the previous day’s
Carbon Footprint versus model consumption. Weighting is based on the
relative energy consumption of each building.
• Drillable from Portfolio, to Region, and so on down to Building level
• Compares drill-down Carbon Footprint versus model relative to the entire
Portfolio
OCCUPANT EDUCATION DASHBOARDS AND REPORTS
• Provide customized Carbon Footprint dashboards to demonstrate to occupants
progress against lowering their Carbon Footprint
• Dashboards and reports include tips to reduce Carbon Footprint
THIRD PARTY CERTIFICATION REPORTS
• Reports are automatically generated for delivery and/or data entry into
third party certification systems
PROPOSED BENEFITS
• Education of clients and tenants about their impact on building carbon
emissions
• Marketing benefit associated with the active of Corporate Social
Responsibility activity
• Carbon accounting and reports to capture carbon credits and incentives
GALAXY™ GBOTS
Gbots are a family of system management and customer support software tools
-- autonomous software agents which will observe and act upon device,
equipment and sys¬tems behavior. Gbots are “self-learning” software agents
that are installed in devices and equipment and implemented as a managed
service. These agents or “bots” are able to sense conditions and ultimately
identify issues within a system to repair or initiate actions to optimize
its performance without human intervention, or with more focused,
knowledge-based intervention informed by initial Gbot assessment of
anomalies. We envision Gbots as a paradigm improvement to continuous
commissioning.
Pacific Controls Gbots are the active intelligent self decision oriented
agents which monitors each and every asset in our Tier-3 Cloud enabled Data
Center and send immediate alarm notification of hardware and software
failure to our customer’s real-time and tightly integrated with our
ticketing system wherein it sends automated reports self complied to our
customer’s on periodic basis. This makes cloud enabled services intelligent
and self healing and provide proactive approach towards troubleshooting and
maintenance.
Gbots are the new paradigm for the virtualization of managed services. The
intelligent, autonomous, self-learning software agents will be deployed
across networks for diverse automated services. The service will eventually
connect utilities like electricity, water, air conditioning and lifts, and
at a later stage perhaps even TVs and phones to facilitate a fully automated
building. Gbots or small patches of artificial intelligence (AI) can
actually self-learn, auto-diagnose and resolve problems, eliminating human
intervention. Gbots will run on Pacific Controls’ Galaxy, an end-to-end
platform and managed service that proactively monitors assets, providing
transparency into how the facility performs, where critical faults lie and
where opportunities exist to significantly lower operating costs.
This ground breaking remote infrastructure and energy management technology
can save as much as 50 per cent in energy costs.”
