Commercial Buildings Energy Management

Sustainable Planet brings you details of one of the the latest generation of energy management systems from NoWatt.

About NoWatt

NoWatt is a rapidly expanding energy monitoring solution provider who appears to be emerging as a technology leader in their sector. As well as offering a hardware solution to monitor energy usage, NoWatt also analyse collected data with a specially written software package capable of highlighting possible issues with excess usage or flag unusual changes in energy consumption. Most problems behind increased energy usage or waste, are not enabling action to be taken. NoWatt’s energy management system is an example of using technology to reduce energy consumption. Customers are encouraged to review collected web statistics and to monitor changes in consumption to help them take action to reduce energy costs. NoWatt’s easy to use interface also allows the export of data for more advanced data analysis.

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Sense and Sustainability

the Copenhagen Wheel, a smart phone controlled electric bike with the change of a wheel.

The batteries in the hub of the Copenhagen Wheel power the sensors that provide location and local environmental information  such as CO, NOx, noise, temperature and humidity. Cyclists can also use this information to determine the health impacts and distances traveled and for connecting with friends and other cyclists on the go.
Collected information is also useful for gaining an insight into the aggregate movements of bicycles in cities helping civil engineers and city planners to propose and build better cycle routes , work towards accommodating cyclists and assess the impact of cycling in the city SENSEable City Lab has developed a variety of applications that use the data collected by the Wheel. One example is the Green Mileage Scheme which provides incentives for cyclists when they reach a certain number of ‘green miles’. In the future such a scheme could also allow cities to enter carbon-trading schemes, by helping prove that a city is increasing the amount of ‘green miles’ being traveled.

MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Mayor’s office of Copenhagen have joined forces to develop a leapfrog sustainable transportation system for bicycles. The Copenhagen Wheel, which will be unveiled during the Mayor’s Summit as part of the OP15 United Nations Climate Conference is an electric ‘hybrid’ bicycle which is also a smart mobile sensing device that can map eal-time flows and environmental conditions in cities.