by Rebecca Walker — January 29, 2010—Adura Technologies, which creates turn-key wireless lighting and HVAC management systems for commercial facilities, today announced it has become one of the first companies to win an Autodesk Clean Tech Software Grant.
The Autodesk program provides free design and engineering software to early-stage clean technology companies in North America that are working to solve some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Lighting accounts for about 38 percent of electrical costs in U.S. commercial buildings, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey. However, only about 7 percent of existing buildings have central controls and improving lighting controls with wired systems is costly and disruptive.
Adura Technologies’ solution is the Adura LightPoint System Release 1.0 (ALPS 1.0). Because it consists of a Web-based software and devices that link existing lighting fixtures wirelessly, it is cost-effective and easy to install and use. The system scales from a single room to a floor, building or campus. It can automatically respond to utility-based programs, such as demand response, which can further reduce costs.
Adura estimates ALPS could save users up to 50 percent of their lighting costs.
The Autodesk Clean Tech Software Grant consists of up to five licenses each of six software applications: AutoCAD Inventor Professional, Autodesk Showcase Professional, Autodesk Vault Manufacturing, Autodesk Navisworks Manage, Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk Alias Design. Adura partnered with KETIV Technologies on an implementation plan and training to ensure its success in using the software tools.
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