Pulse
Pulse tracks the patterns of electricity use in office buildings and provides timely feedback to building operators. Explore this page to see innovative energy management in action.
See how a portfolio of office buildings performed yesterday*
Active building operators adjust their buildings' heating and cooling systems in response to changing weather conditions to keep them operating lean and green. The Pulse tool gives timely feedback so they can fine-tune more effectively. These visualisations show near real-time results from Australian office towers that are utilising daily feedback.
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Yesterday's consumption
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Energy breakdown
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Tracking results
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Compare buildings
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Yesterday's consumption
Explore the daily energy use of Australian office buildings, using the drop-down menu on the right. The blue segments show the buildings’ actual electricity use. The orange segments show real electricity data for a similar day.
Building 1 is a Sydney building with an NLA of 22,000m². This is its data for and like day .
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Energy breakdown
Within large buildings, sub-meters track where electricity is being used. This graph shows that air conditioning, common area lighting and lifts are the major energy users, excluding electricity used directly by the tenants (tenancy lighting and power, IT and supplementary air conditioning). The proportions change with the weather conditions and depending on the operator's actions. Explore yesterday's sub-meter data for a selection of buildings using the drop down menu on the right.
Building 1 is a Sydney building with an NLA of 22,000m². This is its data for .
Tracking results
Each building is grouped by neighbourhood so that operators can have the opportunity to compare notes. Green bars show days when a group of nearby buildings performed better than expected and red bars show when the group had a 'bad' day. Click on the graph and use the drop down menu to view different groups.
This shows a group of 1 office buildings from Sydney between and .
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Compare buildings
To make meaningful comparisons, we must use data that is comparable for different sized buildings. This graph shows the electricity consumed per square metre of floor area for groups of Australian buildings. The performance of an individual building will differ with its attributes, such as design and construction, technologies within, and occupancy patterns.
This shows a group of 1 office buildings from Sydney for .
* Please note: we use the word 'yesterday' to refer to the most recently past 'work day'. If yesterday was Sunday we'll show Friday, unless Friday was a Public Holiday, in which case we'll show Thursday. We don't like to trouble building operators when they're trying to enjoy a well-earned day off!
More about the Pulse project
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Timely Insights
Building operators using Pulse get daily feedback on the performance of their buildings. Pulse helps them to lock in the factors associated with ‘out-performance’ and more quickly address issues contributing to ‘under-performance’.
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Intelligent Algorithm
Pulse draws on the energy and weather archives for individual buildings and uses intelligent algorithms to measure the building’s performance.
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Action Reflection
Pulse is implemented within an action–reflection framework, providing building operators a forum to ‘compare notes’ and benefit from sharing each other’s experience and insights.
Why is pulse important
Pulse gives meaningful feedback to the operators of commercial buildings. This web-page is a window into a live system that shows how communication of simple, timely and actionable energy performance feedback can enable building operators to more effectively manage energy use. Each day a single commercial building can use the same amount of electricity as over 1,300 typical Australian homes, so every kilowatt-hour counts. Sign-up to receive our news and take part in the discussions.
