by Shane Henson — June 14, 2013—KGS Buildings, a cloud-based building performance analytics company and a member of the Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Technology Partner Program, announced a strategic technology agreement this week with Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management. Under the agreement, KGS Buildings will bring its automated fault detection and diagnostics to Schneider Electric’s building energy management solutions and services—a division created to provide real insight into building owners’ energy consumption in order to assist them in identifying energy savings.
KGS’ flagship software, Clockworks, delivers energy and cost savings by utilizing extensive automated analytic libraries to produce prioritized energy efficiency and maintenance actions for facilities managers, operators and service providers.
According to KGS, Clockworks is based on more than 30 years of combined research and development, leveraging the team’s doctoral research and customer-driven development. KGS conducted a cooperative research and development agreement with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for market deployment of building diagnostics.
With the mapping of specific building sequences and engineering parameters, the diagnostic algorithms are tailored to individual buildings and their unique system configurations through mass customization, explains KGS. Real-time data and historical trending from building management systems and utility metering are presented in online interfaces with detailed automated analysis findings, including specific and prioritized cost and energy savings opportunities and customized reporting.
When engineers, maintenance and service technicians act upon these diagnostic recommendations, operational inefficiencies are corrected for dramatic improvement of building performance, delivering persistent savings through ongoing commissioning and services, says the company.
“KGS Buildings makes it possible to convert data into an abundance of actionable information about building performance,” said Jay Nardone, vice president of field services, buildings division of Schneider Electric. “With this building technology software as another element of our energy management solutions and services, we give customers the confidence to make fact-based decisions for improving energy use, operational efficiency, comfort, and financial performance throughout their building’s life cycle.”
